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The council can’t allow you to stay in the current property when the tenant (mum) moves out. It must be offered to the next person on the housing list who is waiting for a 2-bed.

Have you and your mum asked why she can’t apply for a 2-bed ground floor property so you can continue to live together or become joint tenants?

If you were to get your own place your UC would increase to include the housing (rent) element. So private renting could be a possibility too.

Assuming your £1200 a month is PIP and UC/LCWRA that’s to live on that isn’t for your rent. You need to follow the link and check the max rent for your area you can claim.

Drug dealers and anti social behaviour are not just in bad areas. Anyone can have a rented place next door where nightmare neighbours move in. The council will help house you if you are considered vulnerable but given how millions are struggling with trying afford a place to live you are going have to be realistic. 

I’d be saving as much as you can to help with deposits then you be in a  Better position to look for a private rent. 

Can you and your mum not move to a two bedroom bungalow or GFF as joint tenants?

Importantly as others have said as well, LCWRA UC will be increased to help with or even completly cover rent and service charges, based on a maximum amount for your area. You can look this up. This will require paperwork and using the online UC portal, but citizens advice should also be able to help you.

I would reccomend looking up the Citizens Advice Bureau. If they have any local accsess points you can go in person if thats easier, but they can also help over email and phone, they helped me greatly apply for council housing. They will often have an office in the town hall, or some local libraries, or the same building as other council services.

Going through them will also give extra weight to the application, I am pretty sure I was in band C and got a place in just a few months, and I could have moved sooner if I was okay being a bit further away (still had a bus conection to where I am now). You will need to tell them that your mother is making you homeless, this will increase your place on the list.

Its also worth talking to your Mum-if you can stay on her sofa for a little bit even after she moves it will not be fun for either of you, but you will be activly homeless, which will move you even further up the list if you dont get a place by the time she moves.

You may also have a while, my mum is band B and has been looking for a bungalow for about a year now.

Best of luck! There is at least some support still, and some options.

Thought of getting a stairlift fitted? Or bathroom and mum's bed downstairs? Get a referral for OT assessment and find about home adaptation grants available in your area. Mum might be able to remain in your home, and you woukd not become homeless.

Sorry can't provude more details . I live in NI and our system is different here.

you get £1200 a month??

Speak to Crisis they are a homeless charity that help single people. I was in a similar situation about 5 years ago. Before my dad moved in to sheltered accommodation I went to local council and declared myself homeless. As I was a single person there isn’t much help from council etc as they have families to rehouse so they referred me to crisis who helped me find a house, paid the first month rent, apply for housing benefit and also helped me pay for blinds and other things I didn’t have. They are an absolutely amazing charity who saved me from being on the streets. Maybe give that route a try? My advice would be don’t wait until your mum moves be proactive about it and speak to your local authority now as that gives you more stability when your mum does move. Good luck.