I smell homelessness
If you read my previous postings about my living situation, you know how bad it is. If you have not, you should read them, especially if you like a lot of drama.
So, there has been a few things happening on my journey to find a new affordable flat as a poor student. First thing: No, I have not found a new flat.
Second: I applied for housing with the council. I am on two different housing waiting lists now. With one I have 20 points and with the other 30 points. But I think both amounts don’t take me up to the top of the list, unfortunately. And the problem is, the area where I am looking seems to hardly have any places to offer in general.
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I asked for a place in a different area, and I would genuinely think about it, if it wasn’t for the fact, that it is a tiny village outside and the only public transport is the bus, which is not very reliable and scheduled very often. If I had a car and would drive, I would have looked into it though.
Then, a couple of weeks ago. It was raining so hard, that water came through my roof. (Thank god it was only the bathroom and nothing was damaged.) I asked my landlord to send some one out and it was said that someone would look into it. No one came. Prior to that, my toilet was acting up, and didn’t refill in 5 hours. I asked if someone could look at it and no one came. (I had to fix it myself, not knowing what I was doing there.) And with every problem in and around this property and with people ignoring those problems, I had enough. I am mentally so low and exhausted that I decided to pass all problems in the property on to the council who came and inspected the flat and found even more issues with the flat that I had no idea were issues. (Safety issues etc.)
Now my landlord received a letter to get all those things fixed and I got a call yesterday. “I am a bit disappointed with you, that you didn’t speak to me first.” Well I did. I did also mention loads of other problems in the property, and it is a fight I am fighting alone since 3 years. Landlords don’t care, tenants are a pest, Anti Social Behaviour hardly does anything and the same goes for the police…. I am constantly left alone with things. And in order to get more points for the council waiting list, I had to mention that. That investigators do even find more issues was something I wasn’t even aware of.
But I am coming to the point: I feel like this will be a reason why I am gonna have to leave soon or made homeless. I just feel it in my guts and it puts so much more pressure on me to find a flat. And I am seriously looking every day, a few times if new flat are advertised. I ask around etc. But nothing. Since months…nothing. I am tired and exhausted and really need some luck in this situation.
