1.5 million people on housing waiting lists

poppysarah

Onslowette wrote: »

. She lives & sleeps in her living room and washes in the kitchen sink. She should be made to move.

She should be perhaps offered suitable accomodation. A move to a bungalow might seem the sensible thing but waiting lists are long for them and then there's the stress of leaving behind her memories and the actual move itself.


I don't see moving people out of their homes is the answer. More homes with cheaper rents are needed. Desperately.

pickles110564

dervish wrote: »

Population is a MASSIVE problem.

We must cut (or even stop) immigration.

The lazy and unskilled must be made to work in this country instead of just importing in cheap foreign labour.

What should be done is that no one gets Dole for sitting on their @rse, they should all be made to tidy up our great country.
Get them jobs like cleaning up all the garbage that gets painted on walls, make them get on their knees and scrape up all the chewing gum chucked on the pavements. Make them pick up all the dogends chucked on the ground by lazy smokers, Clear all the Dog mess from the pavements.
This would make them all feel worthwhile and contributing to a clean and tidy country.

StevieJ

dervish wrote: »

Population is a MASSIVE problem.

We must cut (or even stop) immigration.

The lazy and unskilled must be made to work in this country instead of just importing in cheap foreign labour.

I know what your problem is, they are always beating you to the Whoop Bins (whatever they are).

ianian99

pickles110564 wrote: »

What should be done is that no one gets Dole for sitting on their @rse, they should all be made to tidy up our great country.
Get them jobs like cleaning up all the garbage that gets painted on walls, make them get on their knees and scrape up all the chewing gum chucked on the pavements. Make them pick up all the dogends chucked on the ground by lazy smokers, Clear all the Dog mess from the pavements.
This would make them all feel worthwhile and contributing to a clean and tidy country.

but these jobs already exist. Are you going to sack these people so we can get unemployed people to do it for £1.50 per hour?

neverdespairgirl

poppysarah wrote: »

I don't see moving people out of their homes is the answer. More homes with cheaper rents are needed. Desperately.

I don't agree. I think social housing should be checked every 5 years or so, and people who are over-housed obliged to move (with a wide choice of where to move to).

pickles110564

ianian99 wrote: »

but these jobs already exist. Are you going to sack these people so we can get unemployed people to do it for £1.50 per hour?

How often do you see people doing these jobs? That is why we should use the people on the Dole, why should they be paid for doing nothing apart from sitting on their backsides?

ajazxriaz

adr0ck wrote: »

FMB have defended the Government its target to build 3 million homes due to the 1.5 million people on council waiting lists

i never realised it was that many

bit of a scandal really

come on UK Government get building more affordable homes

http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3126683&c=1

Currently in my area the waiting time is approx 5-7 years.

ianian99

pickles110564 wrote: »

How often do you see people doing these jobs? That is why we should use the people on the Dole, why should they be paid for doing nothing apart from sitting on their backsides?

EVERY day in coventry city centre. They've even got a machine for removing the bublegum

neverdespairgirl

pickles110564 wrote: »

How often do you see people doing these jobs? That is why we should use the people on the Dole, why should they be paid for doing nothing apart from sitting on their backsides?

In central London, I see them every day.

PasturesNew

I think there should be one well-defined central database of all jobs. With the best search engine possible.

It should then be compulsory for all vacancies to be listed on the central database. Then can then link out simply to "see Jobs Section of ABC newspaper on Thu 1st", or link through to an agency website. But one central searching point.

At the moment finding a job can be more than a full-time job, with different sites to find, different searching methods (jobcentreplus is THE worst one in the world for example). You should be able to select and deselect all types of jobs without being forced down set routes or casting the net too wide.

And this "skills shortage". Stop telling us there is one and tell us what the shortage is in and where. Maybe we just can't find those jobs because we didn't buy the right paper that day, or hadn't found the obscure recruiter site it was advertised on!