info for paying £280 court cost fee for landlord evicting me....

[obiter dictum]

Having been through this sort of thing recently, i might be able to help.

 

The issue i had with my original landlord was that i became Disabled, ill health retired from work and then onto Employment and Support Allowance. The landlord did not like this.

 

Anyway the first thing you have to inform the local authority housing department that you will be homeless on xyz date. This is most important so they can get a case file up and running. Do not wait until you are homeless.

 

You then fill in the application form to be housed by the local authority and then be allocated an official from the homeless persons unit. You are allocated accommodation on a points system. In my case it was 71 points. Being homeless and/or disabled helps. With me it had taken three months to be allocated a Local Authority Flat and as i was homeless and disabled, i spent three months in a residential hostel arranged by the Local Authority housing department.

 

One word of advice i will give is be totally honest with the Housing Department as they do check you out to the extent of knowing your shoe size. The more information you can give them including correspondents really does help . The Local Authority will probably be aware of this rogue landlord/estate agent anyway.

 

They do not care if you have any minor indiscretions/skeletons in your past. All they are interested in is that you did not make yourself homeless through intention and that you are not of an anti social nature.

[obiter dictum]

Just been through this, not an eviction, but getting a local authority flat

 

What happens is that when you fill out the housing application you get assigned an individual housing officer which depends on your unique situation. Could be the roof collapsed on your existing place, you need accomodation because of a disability etc. It is His/Her job to gather the evidence and award housing points that you must attain before the housing association will even consider rehousing.

 

The housing officer makes the recomendation to her supervisor (Manager) if you are to be housed or not. He/She makes the ultimate decision but generally goes on the housing officers recomendations.

 

If He/She has passed the aplication to her manager then you have almost certainly got a placement