Family given £2m house... after complaining 5-bed London home was in "poor area" - DM

alunharford

chewmylegoff wrote: »

a quick review of rightmove suggests plenty of properties in tower hamlets for less than the new LHA cap.

should think quite a lot of the LHA being paid out by tower hamlets to its residents is funded from business rates levied on the companies operating in canary wharf. plus there is the further benefit of improved transport infrastructure for the residents, much of which would not be there without canary wharf. plus it has created a lot of jobs. plus all of the big companies plough a lot of money and staff voluntary time into the local community.

all in all it's a bit odd to make a NIMBY argument about something like canary wharf. can't see that tower hamlets would be better off without it - it would be even poorer and more deprived than it is now.

If my experience of rental in the area is anything to go by, letting agents advertise a 'sample' of properties to draw people in, but they're not actually for let (I had to add £100pw to find a property that actually... exists!). Even then, I doubt you could find a 5-bed advertised for less than £400pw.

(And the only way to read the budget is that these people will be told to make up the shortfall - otherwise the figures given in table 2.1 make no sense - so people will lose their homes)

The macroeconomic effect of the wharf is fantastic. But that's not very useful if you're being thrown out of your home and your kids lives are turned upside down as a result.

Still... My financial circumstances are close enough to Dave's cronies that I get an extra £60pw, so I'm okay.

lynzpower

Too true mate, most of the cheapies dont exist in Tower hamlets, believe me, Ive been looking for a good while!

neverdespairgirl

hippy-chicy wrote: »

Its already been pointed out but your wrong. Asylum seekers can claim LHA and a whole host of other benefits.

YOU are wrong. Asylum seekers CANNOT claim LHA. Or income support, JSA, etc. End of.

The_White_Horse

lynzpower wrote: »

Do you think its safe in Somalia then?

i don't care if they walk down the street in somalia and are guaranteed to be shot in the face - they should nhot be living in a £2m house in kensington.

if somalia really is that unsafe for them, they should be thankful to live in a cardboard box on a roundabout in croydon.

if they didn't like kensal green or wherever it was they were, they should have been offered a first class ticket back to somalia. grasping scum.

and i blame the idiot lefties in this country that caused this mess more than the grasping filth that come and take the freebies.

lynzpower

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

YOU are wrong. Asylum seekers CANNOT claim LHA. Or income support, JSA, etc. End of.

I am much more likely to bow to your knowledge on this one NDG

MissMoneypenny

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

YOU are wrong. Asylum seekers CANNOT claim LHA. Or income support, JSA, etc. End of.

Didn't we discuse this the other month (or perhaps it was the other year)? Asylum seekers get housed (some singles in shared rooms), given money weekly (it was £30) and can go on courses for free. Are not allowed to work.

Once they are allowed to stay here they become refuges and can claim housing (private or council) and other benefits or can work.

Was that right?

ruggedtoast

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of Somalians living in horrible parts of London with no prospect of ever getting out, I imagine a few of them even have jobs. I would reiterate you cant blame people for taking advantage of a system that hands things to them on a plate.

Turning down free citizenship in a 1st world country that offers it to you and then pays you not to work and gives you an incredible house in a place where half your neighbours are films stars with the only proviso being you dont find a job, would be illogical and stupid.

The problem is the system. Brown was equally happy to throw billions at failing British financial institutions. He was a equal opportunities idiot.

kabayiri

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of Somalians living in horrible parts of London with no prospect of ever getting out, I imagine a few of them even have jobs. I would reiterate you cant blame people for taking advantage of a system that hands things to them on a plate.

Yes you can blame them.

I find this obvious lack of any moral standards annoying.

We all have a duty to use public resources wisely. It doesn't take a genius to work out that it's a finite pot of money, and for those 'lucky' few who derive great benefit from it, it means there are others who have to accept a meagre amount - they should be just as angry about this.

RDB

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of Somalians living in horrible parts of London with no prospect of ever getting out, I imagine a few of them even have jobs. I would reiterate you cant blame people for taking advantage of a system that hands things to them on a plate.

Turning down free citizenship in a 1st world country that offers it to you and then pays you not to work and gives you an incredible house in a place where half your neighbours are films stars with the only proviso being you dont find a job, would be illogical and stupid.

The problem is the system. Brown was equally happy to throw billions at failing British financial institutions. He was a equal opportunities idiot.

It will all come to an end next April.

All these families living in 2mil luxury houses all this time wont be happy. They have come to expect to be handed everything on a plate.
They have to move back to `poor` areas. If they have more kids than they can afford they will have to share sometimes in the same bed as the parents.
Oh well that should stop them having more kids.

What will happen to all these luxury houses that the housing benefit have been paying 2 grand a week on?

There is a possibility that the landlords may continue to rent to them for 400 a week.
That would have considerable effect on rents/house price averages.

MissMoneypenny

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Brown was equally happy to throw billions at failing British financial institutions.

We will get the money loaned to the banks, back. Well... perhaps not from Brown's pet bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland. Did Brown have shares in RBS?

We won't get our money back from welfare claimants, nor will the banks get their money back from those that just walked away from their debts and caused the crisis.