My wife and I applied to our housing association for a smaller house / flat on the ground floor as my wife has had a new knee and will need another. As we have to climb two flights of stairs to get into this flat we thought they would put us maybe in the middle of the list, also there are three bedrooms in this flat so it is well under occupied as there is only the two of us and our small dog now living here.
We have been put in group four so there are three groups above us will be offered homes first and guess who is in one of the groups to be offered homes first ! families that are over crowded.
Surely it would make more sense to get houses back that are under occupied from people that want to move so they could then offer those houses to people who are over crowded.
Who knows how the minds of the people who allocate houses works but I would have thought a bit of common sense would have prevailed and someone thought why not get some bigger houses back so we could move over crowded families then we could offer smaller houses to others and get larger ones back.
