YesWheely

Last week I applied on-line to North Wales Housing. Unfortunately today I received a letter explaining why they are denying it.

"The guidance from the Welsh Assembly tells us that we should only retain on our list people who stand a realistic chance of being re-housed..."

The first 'reason' to deny my application reads: "You have insufficient connections with this locality."
Surely the fact Wales is piggybacking on the English economy is enough of a connection.

It's backwards enough that council houses (in the UK) are built using public money. Then for some reason (to create pointless jobs and to cut council jobs) the houses were sold (for as little as £1 each) to Housing Associations. Who charge tenants rent which is at least lower than private rent rates but still disproportionately high especially because most tenants in social housing are in receipt of housing benefit so it's a bit of a self fulfilling cycle of (typically British) pointlessness, tax payers money is wasted on bureaucracy. So the publicly paid for properties become stock lists that managers 'manage'... Is there a more pointless vocation than middle management?

Capitalism just doesn't work. Money is backwards. I live in a country of paper shufflers and morons.

Good day,
I was disappointed to receive a letter today explaining that you have decided not to pass my application 'through to the second stage'.

I would like to appeal to the Housing Support team regarding this decision and also offer some changes that you can update my application with.

Two reasons to deny my application I cannot fathom.

All of man came from one locale. My insufficient reasons for wanting to live in North Wales are as insufficient as anyone who is currently living in Wales. It's blatant racism. There is no place for intolerance in a civilised society. I hope that you can disregard the fact that the only connection to Wales I have is that I quite like Wales. There are areas of such natural beauty and I'd like to live somewhere I am proud to live in rather than another concrete jungle. What does the EU say about the Welsh Assembly's 'Guidance'?
As someone who works, pays NI, Income tax, Council tax, my full rent, and contributes to the economy surely any Welsh borough would be happy for me and my wife to be part of.

The second reason about living in a 'council' property and not being nominated by a council. We only reside in a Housing Association property because I can't find any private property that is suitable for a wheelchair user. It is not by choice. I challenge you to suggest a private agent that is able to rent properties to wheelchair users. For that reason I feel that this reason is unfairly discriminatory.

I can understand the reason that there are no properties available in the areas I have chosen. To be honest I would have selected areas anywhere in North Wales. Is it possible for you to send me a list of suitable 2 Bedroom single floor dwellings [bungalows]? If you could highlight areas that are most likely to accept my application.
Wheelchair accessible or modifiable.

Thank you.

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Regards,
Steven

Well last week I had some stuff to say but what happened was, I poked my eye.  Not a bit, but with three fingers, I fisted my eye. I think a chunk of cornea came out. So I just lay on my sofa listening to the radio. It hurt to watch tv! I couldn't do my work or play GTA or my phone. So my to do list just kept getting added too. Oh yeah I banged my nose too because I tried to brush my teeth with my eyes closed and fell from my wheelchair into a corner. I didn't know it was visible till now since I didn't get a chance to look at it.

My lack of co-ordination is incredibly frustrating. I can't even explain.

Anyway my eye's all better now. I have a few things to do next week and quite a bit of work too. I am getting pretty bored with work at the moment. It's only because it's challenging that it has any of my interest. But the challenge is becoming less so. It's getting tedious; more and more trivial. It's pointless. The project is nearly done now. I think then I'll be working on a Hygiene thing which is pretty similar. More health and safety stuff.

I was in Starbucks getting some Frapuccinos to go which I wheeled all the way home only to spill half of mine all over the sofa. That was annoying. I do stuff like that often it's annoying.

I went the bank with my wife last week. The guy was one of the 'computer says no' morons. So we will be going back on Tuesday.

We have a Halloween tree.



We have decided that we will move up to North Wales but neither of us has the time to actually look for somewhere. So yeah maybe I should be looking that up rather than finishi

It was my Birthday the other day, we celebrated by having Nando's for dinner. We didn't go to the movies because there was nothing decent showing! As is tradition my wife baked my birthday cake the next day. It was pretty tasty and super sweet. Today I went to the post office. A couple of people actually asked me about my chair after first saying how 'cool' it looked and also pointing out how they did not mean to offend me. I don't understand how it would be offensive. It was surprising that the first guy I was talking to assumed that I had got my wheelchair free.

Thanks to my wife we'll be going to see Placebo in Birmingham in December!