Housing bad news, some good

Suddenly realised it's been ages since we lodged the housing form last year and still we've heard nothing from them. So went up the road to the local office to find out what was going on. Got seen straight away.

It was the same lady that we lodged the form with last October. She remembered me as well. She looks it up on the computer and can't find it. Part of it is lost somewhere in the innards of their system. This was why we'd heard nothing for so long. She eventually goes out the back to some computer guru they've got there who finds it somehow. It's been so long since we lodged it she assesses the form herself there and then.

Well we almost got over the line to qualify for the urgent housing list, but not quite. She did this calculation on the rent, the calculation that I can never understand, and announced the gov decrees that with our money our "affordable" rent is $360 a week. How the fuck they figure that out I don't know. But anyway as our rent is $380 a week then we qualified there. 

We also qualified for eastern suburbs as all our support is here. Hospital, doctors, specialists, psychologists. No worries there.

But then we came to the last hurdle. This was the one that I found huge problems in trying to do. She said there was nothing on the medical reports saying that we weren't able to look for private rent on our own. I did try that when doing the form, looking up places and expressing interest online. But when it came to going to the open house look thing I got a complete mental block. Just couldn't do it. Going there, filling out an application, knowing that we'd be rejected in Sydney's tight rental market because neither of us were working. It would have been soul destroying.

But anyway after all we've been through last year I wasn't upset or angry. Or anything really. She said she'd put us down for a one bedroom place on the normal housing waiting list as those places came up a lot and can be hard to rent as everyone wants a two bedroom. In fact she said one might come up even sooner than being on the urgent list. So the news wasn't all bad. We'll get a letter presently explaining it all.

Oh well we tried. It's not all over yet.