Family of Three trying find a home

A mother and her two children have been given a chance to rent a home, on a two year lease, if the States Social Department will pay the monthly rent, or they will face living on the streets

The law as it stands in Guernsey will only get them onto the housing waiting list, if the are occupying a permanant residence, which at the moment the are not because the are on a camp site.

Are they states right in thier decision, or should they show compassion in such cases?

yes right otherwise families which have been on the housing list for a long time will be bypassed. If people want to return to the Island they should contact the housing first, and should not use this method to fast track the system. Also i read in the GEP people who have owned a house before will not be considered for housing, Yet I know of several which have, local and people returning to the Island. is this right?

i totally agree ted.it seems this family have returned to the island (rightly so as they are local)but they should have checked out with housing and the benefits department as to what if anything they were entitled to.

WTF???
How about they sod back off to wherever and wait their turn?
Some people need houses more than them!!
My god, some people are just such a bunch of...grrrr. Some people might say they are quite clever if it means they will get their own way. Why can't she get off her a*se, get a job and rent the house herself?? I don't wann pay for her!!!

ted the head wrote:yes right otherwise families which have been on the housing list for a long time will be bypassed. If people want to return to the Island they should contact the housing first, and should not use this method to fast track the system. Also i read in the GEP people who have owned a house before will not be considered for housing, Yet I know of several which have, local and people returning to the Island. is this right?

I suppose its all to do whith who owned the property. If Mr X owned the property and Mrs X didnt, they just got married for example, think Mrs X would get the tenancy or something along those lines/

This in today's press from her x husband :

HOUSING claimant Michelle Savident deserves nothing from the States, says her former husband.
He spoke out after seeing Tuesday’s front-page Guernsey Press story about his ex-wife living in a tent with two of her children.
She returned to Guernsey at the end of July, having lived in the Isle of Wight for 10 years.
When he discovered she had managed to find a house and was being
supported by the States, he quickly wrote to the Housing Department.
‘While I harbour no personal grievance against Mrs Savident,’ he
stated, ‘under the circumstances I believe it would be grossly unfair
for her to obtain a States house under false pretences when our
daughters have worked hard to gain a foothold on the property ladder by
legitimate means.’
He claimed that Mrs Savident’s stated intention had, for the past 12
months, been ‘to obtain a States house and benefits by essentially
rendering herself and her children homeless’.
She voluntarily left a three-bedroomed council house in the Isle of
Wight to ‘deliberately destitute herself and her remaining son and
daughter in Guernsey’, he added, ‘and made no attempt to secure
accommodation or work prior to returning as she was confident she would
be offered both housing and benefit’.
The ex-husband also claimed he and Mrs Savident purchased a property in
Mont Arrive in 1980 and then jointly owned a property in the Vale from
1987 to 1990.
He stated that Mrs Savident got half the second property as part of their divorce settlement.

What do you think ?