Social housing on new estate - where do we stand!

vectra90

Oh and before people get excited about everything. I have a child and I grew up in council housing, which made me even more determined to work hard in life to get the things I want and buy my own house. I just cant understand why people just accept defeat at such a young age and the fact they are going to amount to nothing and just give up??

Hope I didn't offend anyone, but in this day and age where it is acceptable to be one of these wasters and live your whole life with this attitude just breaks me!

jamie11

lukepugh wrote: »

BUT .... the real low lives of our society usually end up in social housing and I do not wish to live near to them.

There are unsuccessful low lifers and successful low lifers.

Those that have pursued their calling successfully can be found in the best 'gated estates' all over the country, you may well have a pimp or 'supplier' living next door to you no matter where you choose to live, you would never know until some gentlemen in blue used a special key to visit them in the early hours of one morning.

And then there's bankers.........nuff said.

System

lukepugh wrote: »

The developer that I purchased my new house from lied about there being social housing on the estate.

Did he?
Had he already sold the affordable houses to a housing assiociation or social landlord when you bought yours.

Affordable is not always social housing!

littlesparkles

Get the planning application from your council's website to see if affordable or social housing was planned. Check the addresses for that row of houses on Zoopla or similar. This should give you an indication - were they sold for far less than similar houses?

I've had a look through my legal pack and my solicitor has clearly advised not to believe anything from the sales rep and to get anything important in writing from the builder's legal team. I have submitted pages of queries through my lawyer. His advice also states that although I have been shown plans relating to affordable housing, I should be aware that the builder can choose to sell more as affordable housing or social housing later in the development as there is nothing to stop this. So it could be that your builder had no intentions of having affordable or social housing when you bought yours but things changed.

JuicyJesus

This whole thread is predicated on the idea that only people in social housing have a chance of being problems.

Because of course, there are no irritating, noisy, boorish c**ts living in privately owned or rented accommodation.

lukepugh

!!!!!! wrote: »

Did he?
Had he already sold the affordable houses to a housing assiociation or social landlord when you bought yours.

Affordable is not always social housing!

Yes.... like I said ..... they lied!
The houses were occupied before our house was finished being built.... mybe I shouldn't have took the developers word for it .... but what else could I have done... knocked on peoples doors to ask if they were OO's or renting or housing asociation?

And yes they are housing association.... now that I have completed and there is no going back, the lady in the sales office was more than happy to tell me where they all were.

And like I said.... they have not been a problem .... but past experince leads me to belive that eventually we could end up with a bunch of scumbags moving in!

lukepugh

JuicyJesus wrote: »

This whole thread is predicated on the idea that only people in social housing have a chance of being problems.

Because of course, there are no irritating, noisy, boorish c**ts living in privately owned or rented accommodation.

And where did I say that in my original post???
Read the post .... contribute somthing relevant
OR Wind your neck in!

BobQ

lukepugh wrote: »

We recently purchased a new house and one of the things that swayed us to choose the house we did is that the developer told us that there was no social housing nearby.

After being in for a few months it seems that there is a row of houses (about 5 or 6) that may be social housing on the next street.
As yet there have been no problems but having had problems with noise chavy neighbours in the past we are bit concerned.


Thanks

And you believed the developer?

Well at least you can identify these "chavs". You will find it more difficult to identify the other chavs on your estate who rent from BTL landlords and could even live next door to you while claiming their benefits. Then there are the other chavs who would be in social housing were it not for the bank of mum and dad. And those self employed chavs who wheel and deal cars (or whatever) on the front lawn.

Of course you may find all these chavs are really nice people who do not judge you for your prejuduces.

lukepugh

BobQ wrote: »

And you believed the developer?

Well at least you can identify these "chavs". You will find it more difficult to identify the other chavs on your estate who rent from BTL landlords and could even live next door to you while claiming their benefits. Then there are the other chavs who would be in social housing were it not for the bank of mum and dad. And those self employed chavs who wheel and deal cars (or whatever) on the front lawn.

Of course you may find all these chavs are really nice people who do not judge you for your prejuduces.

Another pointless post.
Does this answer the question I asked?

They may all be nice people and they may not judge me and I would not judge them!

My problem is with the devolper lying about the social housing ... not the poeple living in them.

If you had bothered to read the whole thread then would see that my concern with social housing ,FROM MY EXPERINCE, is that the type of people that I have moved home to try and avoid are more likley to end up in social housing and that given the choice would not want to live near them.... !

Could you please explain why think I am prejudice?

IHateDida

lukepugh wrote: »

Another pointless post.
Does this answer the question I asked?

They may all be nice people and they may not judge me and I would not judge them!

My problem is with the devolper lying about the social housing ... not the poeple living in them.

If you had bothered to read the whole thread then would see that my concern with social housing ,FROM MY EXPERINCE, is that the type of people that I have moved home to try and avoid are more likley to end up in social housing and that given the choice would not want to live near them.... !

Could you please explain why think I am prejudice?

I don't think you are - and anyone of the opinion that you are, should try living near people who cause problems. Its just unfortunate that yours were caused by people who came from social housing (and so were mine).

We all want to avoid something that has caused us pain/upset in the past, whatever that may be. I won't buy a new build ever again for fear of past events repeating themselves (unfortunately caused by people who lived in HA properties). I would be exactly the same if say I lived in a student area, and students had caused me problems before - I wouldn't want to live near students - would that be prejudice too????

All I can say, is that the people who are questionning your ethics - clearly have never had problems with where they live and should count themselves lucky.