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Originally Posted by parmnion
I would like to know how it wasn't noticed that your friend couldn't manage before he moved in.
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He was in a nice flat but the landlord wanted to sell so he was given notice. He had enough savings plus his disability allowance to get another place but each private place he applied for was rejected by the agents and landlords. They simply didn't want someone on benefits in their properties. The council told him to stay put and become a sitting tenant but this guy had always had a good relationship with his landlord who had already supplied him with impeccable references.
The housing people eventually came up with a hotel hostel that he could go to and when he was shown around, he was shown a ground floor room but on the day of his arrival, the hotel owner had occupied that room and given him another room on the 3rd floor. Fortunately he had enough money to book himself into a hotel with a lift but because he did this, social services washed their hands of him.