Pros and Cons of Council Housing?

This is my first time living alone and honestly it's the best decision ever, pros is it's a home for life, and affordable rent, cons is you have to keep on at them to sort something out 🙈 but honestly if you don't like the area once you been there a year you can do a mutual exchange to any area you want to and don't have to bid again, just swap houses with another council house :)

Pros - affordable rent
Cons - they took my fireplace away and left a massive hole and only a piece of cardboard to cover it, they refused to fill it so we ended up blocking it off and put an electric fire to cover it 🙃🙃🙃 another con, they came to “weather proof” our house which caused a leak. They also said they would take 6-12 weeks to do it and even started early (feb) as I asked them to try and be done before I gave birth (April) they didn’t finish until september.

I can’t afford to move anywhere else, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. It’s nice for a cheap place but they aren’t always reliable. I know some people who have had good experiences with the council but personally I haven’t

Im also appying for the housing and not sure the pros & cons of it.

I don’t live in a council house mines housing association so slightly different. I grew up in one. I would say it all depends on the council themselves. However given the current state of the economy (also I don’t know your current circumstances) but councils rent tends to be a lot cheaper than private landlords and they only normally do annual increases which they will inform you about. Better protection from evictions as in with private if the landlord doesn’t pay their mortgage then you’d lose your home. Even if you have been paying the rent to them. You can decorate how you like add modifications (there may be restrictions on this or you may have to apply for permission) There is a few IG accounts of people who live in councils houses and they are beautiful (like they own them)

Things out of your control to a certain extent is area, who your neighbours are and schools. However you would have stated whereabouts you want to live so have a look at the crime rates and schools.

Depends where you are, I’m in a housing association and I’ve lived in 2 different properties. First one, it flooded with sewage (literally out of the bath, sink, toilet) due to roots underground and I was bottom floor flat so I got everyone else’s sewage and I lost everything. This happened in a span of 2 months of me moving in and I wasn’t even in the property for a good month as my grandmother was in a coma. They were armed against me when I filed an insurance claim, I couldn’t believe it. Completely insensitive.

However, they placed me in one of the nicest hotels in my area, ripped everything out of the flat (flooring, not sure what they did to the walls but they were fresh, ripped the bathroom + kitchen out and everything was fresh. Did this in 3 months and offered me the flat back or gave me the option to move, I moved. I now live behind said flat and wish I didn’t as the new flat I’m in is ghetto to fuck 😂😂😂

I’d love to know what each of you are paying for your council / housing property as I’m in a housing association and have a 2 bedroom ground floor flat and I’m paying almost £1200 for it (Godalming area) whereas someone I know who is in a 4 bedroom house (still housing association) is paying £200 more than me. She has a drive, garden and 3 bathrooms, yet I pay £1200 with no garden or drive included. I know area is a big factor too. That to me isn’t affordable, we barely make it through each month because of our‘affordable rent’.

I pay £460 for a 2 bed maisonette, no garden. I think it massively depends on area

Depends on the area in the UK, I pay £560 for 2 bed house with Garden and its newish build, outside of Birmingham. I’m the second family to be placed here. It’s too small for us now

my family have a 2 bed 2 bath new build on housing association and pay £700 monthly. We live in walsall, close to birmingham

I live in a housing association flat and so far no cons. The flat itself is lovely and 2 bedrooms. I pay £625 a month. I’d NEVER be able to afford to rent privately round here. Yesterday I saw a tiny studio apartment for rent locally and it was £950 a month. For a tiny studio. Rent around here for something like I have would easily be twice what I’m actually paying to live here

i pay £467 a month for a large 2 bed 1st floor flat that's rent and the charges I pay towards the council cleaning the halls lift and outside area, yours is extortionate 👀 never heard of council houses/housing association being that much, i think my mum was paying £500+ for out 4 bed town house in london before we moved out