What does homeless at home mean

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Check if you can apply for homeless help This advice applies to England Print. If you were given emergency housing and are worried you'll lose it You should ask your council if you can stay in your emergency housing.

You can also get help from: Refuge or Women's Aid on at any time Men's Advice Line on Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm Calls to these numbers are free. Did this advice help? Yes No. Why wasn't this advice helpful? It isn't relevant to my situation. It doesn't have enough detail. Being homeless means: You don't have a home. Examples Any of these might be the case:- You are street homeless At home you suffer from violence or abuse , from: Your Partner Ex-Partner Family Member Anyone else The Council may ask you to provide details of incidents where there has been violence or abuse.

You're at risk of losing your home You can't afford to stay where you are Your accommodation is very temporary You are staying with friends or 'sofa surfing' You've been locked out or illegally evicted Your accommodation has been prohibited as housing This means the Council has said it's in such poor condition it's not fit to live in You can't live together with your partner or close family You have a houseboat or caravan but nowhere to put it These are just examples.

You can bring a support worker or friend with you in to the interview. In the meantime, please feel free to ask for more help if you have nowhere to live.

At the interview The process will be quicker if you bring some documents listed on the Housing Options web page If we say we can help you If the council accepts that it has a duty to continue housing you, you may have to stay in temporary accommodation until it offers you somewhere more long-term or 'settled'.

After the interview Usually we give you a personal housing plan. After this we make a decision about your homelessness. If you are not eligible for homelessness support from the council, you may still be able to access: Help from social services when homeless: if you have children or additional needs you may be able to get support from Staffordshire Social Care and Health Short-term emergency housing.

Cleaning home swapper!! They never SAY what they can do for you, they talk about their workload all the time. I don't want to know if they have a big workload, I am asking them to help me solve my problem if they cannot help me solve my problem why are they there offering the service FFS aagh! Can't find your answer? Sakuntala, for Gods sake dont use any forged document. The Council's look very closely and very seriously at fraud and it would not be hard to see this is not the smae handwriting as the previous letter.

Even if it got through noe, it could get caught later and you would get prosecuted for obtaining by deception. They dont take this sort of thing ligthly. Going back to homeless at home, this is recognised and covers whats known as concealed homelessness - just like you, you are not on the street but your housing is not suitable for your need.

It means they have no homlessness duty to you, but recognise that you are in need. Have they now made a decision that you are homless? You can go and tell them the date your Mum is throwing you out, but they will want it in writing too. You will then go in to emergency shelter. Have they made any comment on you leaving your martial home? This will be looked at too as part of the homelessness decision - most particularly why you didnt get him out and stay there. I have worked for Councils and I know you are frustrated and wnat answers, but in their defence, they are generally hard worked and hearing the same sort of tales all the time.