'Hopefully I'll get a bigger home,' vows mum with 6 kids squeezed into 2-bed council house after 5 years on waiting list | I73LMI6 | 2024-01-29 07:08:01
The TikTok creator shared a video highlighting the cramped actuality of elevating her youngsters in their short-term two-bedroom residence in Leeds.
A SINGLE mum of six youngsters says she has spent 5 years waiting for a council home large enough to accommodate her family.
The TikTok creator shared a video highlighting the cramped actuality of elevating her youngsters in their short-term two-bedroom residence in Leeds.
The influencer, who goes by @the.knowledge.family7 on TikTok, showed her on-line audience of almost 60,000 across the tiny home where she has been dwelling while ready for something greater.
A television, couch, and mattress have been all crammed into the same area – a bedroom and front room in a single.
The mum made a small bed, wiped down the mirror above her hearth, folded clothes and placed the piles in a basket, and hoovered and mopped the ground, simultaneously explaining in a voiceover: "Guys, I'm a mum of six, I raised six youngsters alone.
"I have been on the council listing for five years. I reside in a two-bedroom house with six youngsters so I'm sleeping downstairs to offer these youngsters my additional room.
"Apparently my house is large enough for the seven of us. Anybody aged beneath 10 is classed as half a person.
"I've acquired four individuals underneath 10 and they're classed as half an individual. Anybody beneath one isn't classed as anyone at all."
The mum stated a front room is considered a bedroom in a council residence, so by these rules, "I am in a three-bedroom house, regardless that I'm not, and I have 5 individuals dwelling on this house, although I don't.
"So, in accordance with laws, my house is large enough for the seven of us. Think about. Anyway, I'm cleaning, and hopefully I'll get a much bigger house soon."
The video attracted greater than 800,000 views in two days, as TikTok customers flooded to the comment part to share their opinions on her state of affairs.
One individual wrote: "I ended at 2 infants so we might reside comfortably. I do hope you'll be able to upsize however only so your youngsters have area."
One other stated: "Your movies humble me so much. Been on bidding a yr in a 2 bed flat with an autistic baby, I see ur vids and assume I ent obtained it that dangerous xxx."
Another person commented: "iv obtained 2 youngsters in a 3 mattress home and there's noooo approach on earth im having any more youngsters as i no i 1 havent acquired the room n 2 havent the money to maneuver."
In defence of the mum, another individual wrote: "Individuals saying nasty comments not figuring out your state of affairs must be ashamed. you achieve this properly elevating your youngsters alone x."
It comes amid news hundreds of families dwelling in council houses face bumper lease rises value up to 7.7 per cent from April.
Social rents usually improve by shopper worth& inflation& (in September of the earlier yr) plus 1.5 proportion factors yearly.
However the government has applied a seven per cent ceiling on lease cap rises within the& next& financial yr, which means& councils& in& England& will quickly have the ability to increase social housing rents by up to 7.7 per cent.
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