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Coalition Success On Housing
Ethel_Fred
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Number of homeless families housed in B&Bs rises 300% in five years
Well it just means more housing for everyone else.
Well it just means more housing for everyone else.
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This is so true.
Very true.
28% of households are occupied by someone living on their own in the uk.
From the link -
" Official figures show nearly 50,000 families in England are living in temporary accommodation, laying bare the impact of government cuts"
That's like a medium size town
Not on my watch unless its accompanied by a cap on the total population.
Believe you are talking about the "Hidden homeless" demographic, which stands at 400,000+
As you said, unless you actually have involvement in the voluntary supporting vulnerable (in this case homeless) people, you face an uphill struggle to convince them the problem even exists to begin with before you can even go about helping those in that situation, let alone tackling the root causes that land people to end up in that predicament.
Then you throw in the stigma associated with homelessness that is often assumed they must really had screwed up to end up that way (crime, alchohol, drugs, gambling and other addictions) disregarding any chance they ended up that way for other reasons.. because that is how media will often depict them and how the public is conditioned to percieve them
Studies suggest amongst men in particular that could be partially true.. at least in the case of substance abuse and those leaving institutions (prison), but that is a small part of it, another big cause is relationship breakdowns/split ups
Where as with women it can often be poor health, or escaping domestic violence.. particularly in the case of the latter because the safeguards preventing abuse victims from having to choose between going home to a violent partner or sleeping rough are gradually being eroded away
Like a great many things, most don't pay attention and acknowledge them as problems until they are in the situation themselves.
what is the definition of temporary accomodation? i.e how long is a temporary period?
and if it's temporary, where do they go after this temporary period?
And here's another example...so what do the government intend to do...introduce powers to enable them to ban local councils from setting up procedure to identify and deal with this sort of situation.
I'm sure being told there is nothing the local council can do about it will go down really well with the Tory voters find this sort of thing happening in their street/next door to them.
I agree with you Pumping Iron.
I would much prefer to see money pushed into Help to Buy channeled into building social housing instead. The rest of the money needed for this project can come from the foreign aid bill.
This approach would also create jobs. It's win-win as far as I am concerned.
There's other questions to go with that - at what rate is this number increasing (if that is the case), how does it compare with the rate of formation of families, and how is anyone defining 'family' nowadays given that we are constantly told that the 'family unit' is a thing of the past?
There's no denying that we need a lot of affordable (in the real sense, not the political "affordable" definition) housing, I just prefer things to be on the basis of known figures rather than what may or may not simply be scary extrapolations of things.