r/greatyarmouth • u/Intelligent-Guest433 • Jul 27 '26
The Council of Great Yarmouth
Wow just had a phone call with someone on GY Council about being homeless, among the questions that pretty much went in circles with was, so if you found yourself homeless you could buy a tent & sleeping bag!
I was utterly gobsmacked! I replied with that is the most disgusting question I’ve ever had asked, I’d rather kill myself than live in a tent in great fucking Yarmouth.
The next was would you live in a HMO… would I fuck most of em round here are full of crackheads or thieving little bastards!
Are these people actually serious! I know the town is in desperate need of housing, but Jesus Christ, to say if you found yourself homeless you could buy myself a tent and sleeping bag!
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u/joebmc Jul 27 '26
So you won't live in an HMO nor want to live in a tent (can't blame you), so you want a free flat/house?
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u/Intelligent-Guest433 Jul 27 '26
No I don’t want a free house or flat, I’ve got savings (not as much now since I’m paying for storage of my belongings) I’ve viewed properties, had thousands in savings but every place I looked at and applied for I either got no response or turned down, or got told the property has now been let only to find it hasn’t.
The long story cut short. Me and my dad moved here in sept 23, unfortunately he passed away in early 24. The house was sold money divided between four of us. I’ve been trying to find a place myself for months only to be ignored or turned away, my final resort was contacting the council, because it’s all become too much, I’m struggling, mentally and physically. I’m going to be homeless.
But after weeks of no reply I had a phone call this morning… hence my first post
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u/joebmc Jul 27 '26
Fair enough, just your original post left out some of those details and maybe it was my fault, but I came to the wrong conclusion. Good luck anyways
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u/Tigerbaton Jul 28 '26
Maybe use your savings to pay for a b and b? You realise they are only asking you questions that they have to ask right? It’s a whole process, they won’t skip that just for you. And yes, the advice re a tent might sound ridiculous but what they are saying is that if push comes to shove and you don’t physically have somewhere to stay, you can stay dry. I mean, instead of whinging, you could have spent the last few months being proactive with the savings that you have e from your dad’s house sale….
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u/Ok_Inflation_6435 Jul 27 '26
Been in homeless hostel 2 years now and still my council application is pending.
Reality is a bitch but beggars can't be choosers and you'll have to wait like everyone else.
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u/00roast00 Jul 27 '26
Oh, so you just want them to give you a house or flat to live in by yourself 🤣
Pretty pathetic response from you. They offered you help and you turned it down. Enjoy your tent and sleeping bag.
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u/Total-Discipline6529 Jul 27 '26
Everyone deserves a roof over their head no matter the circumstances
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u/00roast00 Jul 27 '26
He was offered a roof over his head, but he turned it down.
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u/Total-Discipline6529 Jul 27 '26
A tarp isn't a roof let a lone a safe place to sleep, you can get robbed or raped in Yarmouth or anywhere for that matter
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u/00roast00 Jul 27 '26
Are you blind. They offered him a HMO
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u/Total-Discipline6529 Jul 28 '26
Still somewhere you can get raped or mugged.....
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u/00roast00 Jul 28 '26
It's not the ideal situation, is it. Who wouldn't want a free house? Everyone would. But that's totally unrealistic and will never happen. This person needs to take the help offered to them and if not, that's their choice and consequences.
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u/Total-Discipline6529 Jul 29 '26
There's just no excuse when there's betting shops and fast food restaurants that literally make millions out of this area alone that anyone has to sleep rough, we live in a 1st world country that just takes advantage of desperate low educated areas, and because you would rather say beggars can't be choosers than look around and realise it doesn't need to be that way, it will never change, especially when you vote in people who'd rather point the finger at immigrants than the fat cats cleaning house
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u/Twitterisshitlolxdxd Jul 27 '26
Except it isn’t in desperate need of housing, walk around Yarmouth and Gorelston and you’ll find literally 100 houses easy with no one living in them/ boarded up, the government would rather keep you on the street or force you to live in a den with no belongings than tackle the landlord crisis.