How to get a council house

[Deleted User] · 16/04/14 - 21:11

I live in Tower Hamlets!
And your moaning because you have Sky

:o:o

V1Chris21 · 16/04/14 - 21:12

I was shocked when she said that!

nomad2king · 16/04/14 - 21:12

They didn't look exactly poverty stricken did they. Eg Young child with smartphone.

ianradioian · 16/04/14 - 21:12

Typical.

nvella · 16/04/14 - 21:13

Surely they have got to be getting money from somewhere else on top of the benefits

ianradioian · 16/04/14 - 21:14

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.

horwichallstars · 16/04/14 - 21:14

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.

ianradioian · 16/04/14 - 21:16

Im glad this is on. Bursts a few guardian readers hang- wringing views of the World.

tony321 · 16/04/14 - 21:16

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.

[Deleted User] · 16/04/14 - 21:17

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.

V1Chris21 · 16/04/14 - 21:18

nvella wrote: »

Surely they have got to be getting money from somewhere else on top of the benefits

That's what I thought. She seems to think these luxuries are basic essentials.

[Deleted User] · 16/04/14 - 21:18

ianradioian wrote: »

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.

Read my post then!

ianradioian · 16/04/14 - 21:18

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.

TardisSteve · 16/04/14 - 21:19

the council housing guy is very condescending and judgemental

ianradioian · 16/04/14 - 21:20

manued2009 wrote: »

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.

[Deleted User] · 16/04/14 - 21:21

ianradioian wrote: »

Yeah, I had a flat years ago and is a big problem, noise etc.

Mediation is the way forward according to TH

tony321 · 16/04/14 - 21:22

Husband in the armed forces should be easy to track down for CSA for the 3 kids

koantemplation · 16/04/14 - 21:22

The ex husband, whom I assume is the children's father, should be helping towards the rent.

ianradioian · 16/04/14 - 21:23

tony321 wrote: »

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.

TardisSteve · 16/04/14 - 21:24

poor ray being forced out

good news for now, for ray

koantemplation · 16/04/14 - 21:25

Yay, getting the poor to fight amongst themselves has worked with this lady.

horwichallstars · 16/04/14 - 21:25

in the long run, it will cost a heck of a lot more if Ray gets evicted

tony321 · 16/04/14 - 21:25

Has Ray not thought about getting a job and paying his way ?

Ed R.Marley · 16/04/14 - 21:26

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

chris1978 · 16/04/14 - 21:27

44 year old Ray is a bit too old to be dressing like a 16 year old.

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.

welwynrose · 16/04/14 - 21:27

Be interesting to see a borough where it's not such a problem

Hey there!

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