Property pool is a UK government/city council website, where housing associations put up their available properties, then desperate, vulnerable people bid on them.
In my opinion, property pool is awful just for that reason.
However, it has a lot more issues than that.
1. How are actually homeless people meant to access the internet?
2. In band A- which is for homelessness, a lot of the available properties aren’t even built yet, and in most cases won’t be for over a year. At least this was the case in 2018.
3. You have no property refusals in band A. Which means you can’t refuse any property offered to you for any reason. This leaves some of the most vulnerable people open to abuse by housing associations, because it means they can offer you run down and/or dangerous properties, and you have to accept them, or you will be taken off property pool. It also means that disabled people can’trefuse a property offered to them that isn’t disability suitable.
This is part of how I ended up in a dangerous disability unsuitable property myself.
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