In more disheartening news though, both of us suspect they may be closing this lead tenant house down. They’ve completely stopped all non essential maintenance, and they seem to have stopped looking for either another lead tenant to replace the one that moved out Oct 2023, let’s lone him. Or another kid to replace me or the other nutcase that was here. Honestly the house is a dump. It’s got good bones, and is in a very posh area, but they never bothered to maintain it, so over the 30 or so years they’ve owned it it has pretty much disintegrated. They bought the house in the 90s for 300 grand, and current estimates place it at about 1.4-19mil if they were to sell it. They could easily turn it into a block of flats and sell each for probably not much less if they wanted to manage that and could definitely make a pretty penny

It’s kinda sad. They’ve taken a regressionist viewpoint recently. When I moved in there was a program that existed for people transitioning into LT from resi that was for building life skills, things like learning to cook, clean, do basic maintenance, etc. Through shitty management and a lack of direction and communication, the programs focussed kind of got lost and they ended up going over budget and never really got the results they anticipated. Rather than reforming it, they decided to cut the program pretty much entirely. It now exists only for people who are at immediate risk of being kicked out and sent back to resi. That more or less means that there’s nothing now for people moving in, and no way to build new skills and figure out how to live by ones ownsome. And that’s quite representative of how the entire system is currently going at the moment. They came up with fantastic (genuinely, not sarcastic) programs and things that filled a real need, but failed to implement them all properly then got antsy about spending, so now they’re axing all of them which’ll just create worse outcomes for the next people that move in.