This is why all the housing, etc needs an overhaul- and this is why geniune people have to jump through hoops and still cannot be housed. Makes my blood boil.
I don't like the solution of just shipping everyone up north - what's that going to do for our economy?
All those billions of pounds of housing benefits, lining the pockets of private landlords, charging sky high rents, for ex-council properties. Council housing should never have been sold off - or if it was, for every house sold, another should have been built in it's place.
Nobody is forced to become an alcoholic or a drug addict and it is wrong they jump the queue ahead of others. What about someone who has worked all their life, paid all their taxes and through no fault of their own becomes ill and cannot work anymore ? They didn't have a choice in that yet get stuck well behind in the queue.
I have had hassle with my neighbour, I live on the ground floor (Moved here last October) and against TH homes (tenacy agreement) the first floor have put wooden flooring down I complained (kids and adults banging from 5 am to 2am) and I have been deemed to be intolerante of my neighbour, so even if you get a place you wont be sane for long.
This is why all the housing, etc needs an overhaul- and this is why geniune people have to jump through hoops and still cannot be housed. Makes my blood boil.
Buy to let in the 90s and early 2000s forced rental prices higher and higher. There are 100s of thousands of buy to let landlords earning big housing benefit money.
I have had hassle with my neighbour, I live on the ground floor (Moved here last October) and against TH homes (tenacy agreement) the first floor have put wooden flooring down I complained (kids and adults banging from 5 am to 2am) and I have been deemed to be intolerante of my neighbour, so even if you get a place you wont be sane for long.
Yeah, I had a flat years ago and is a big problem, noise etc.
Nobody is forced to become an alcoholic or a drug addict and it is wrong they jump the queue ahead of others. What about someone who has worked all their life, paid all their taxes and through no fault of their own becomes ill and cannot work anymore ? They didn't have a choice in that yet get stuck well behind in the queue.
I agree with you. Workers, and people who became ill or cannot work any more should have the priority where council/ association s are concerned, key workers .Then anyone else.
I don't know why people would want to live in London unless they earned a fat salary. I lived in the capital over a decade ago and whilst it wasn't as expensive as it is now, it was still dear compared to where I was brought up and I soon got tired of living the life I would have had back home but paying through the nose for it. Outside the centre, London is an absolute smelly shit-tip and as for Tower Hamlets - phewwey!
£315 a week for a flat - you'd get a palace in Northamptonshire for that:o
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All those billions of pounds of housing benefits, lining the pockets of private landlords, charging sky high rents, for ex-council properties. Council housing should never have been sold off - or if it was, for every house sold, another should have been built in it's place.
That's what I thought. She seems to think these luxuries are basic essentials.
Read my post then!
Yeah, I had a flat years ago and is a big problem, noise etc.
Mediation is the way forward according to TH
I agree with you. Workers, and people who became ill or cannot work any more should have the priority where council/ association s are concerned, key workers .Then anyone else.
good news for now, for ray
£315 a week for a flat - you'd get a palace in Northamptonshire for that:o
Seriously though. . . It is such a tragedy the way the system is so messed up. Those that really need help just don't seem to be getting it.