Listening to housing debate on Radio 2

homelessskilledworker

cotleigh wrote: »

The solution to the problem of young single mums getting pregnant and then being "rewarded" with a council flat, jumping the queue past the responsible-but-poor young couple who put their name down for a council flat so they can start a family is this:

We don't want a world where people end up on the streets, even if they are irresponsible and !!!!less.

So, we must provide something for them.

So, put them up in purpose-build hostels. They get a roof over their heads, maybe support with their baby, some rules to live by, etc.

Not as nice as getting your own flat, but there you go.

Priority for subsidised flats and houses should be given to those who "play by society's rules".

That way, we fulfil our duty to look after people, without seeming to effectively reward bad behaviour, as happens at present.

And it is pretty galling when you then later get those people who have their HB paid for after jumping the housing list then buying their council homes for peanuts.
Sibley and Wotsthat for example preaching about hard work when they are just two lucky little council house boys that got lucky with RTB.

wotsthat

homelessskilledworker wrote: »

Sibley and Wotsthat for example preaching about hard work when they are just two lucky little council house boys that got lucky with RTB.

That's a random one. I've never lived in a council house let alone got lucky with right to buy.

ruggedtoast

moneyinmypocket wrote: »

I have seen families who have never worked, always get in trouble with law popping out kids ten to the dozen - they then bring up little monsters who follow the same pattern. They almost look inbred some of them which is a taboo subject as if you have underclass breeding in same areas and never moving you do end up with inbreeding at some point

All right Nietzsche, dial it down a notch.

JonnyBravo

wotsthat wrote: »

That's a random one. I've never lived in a council house let alone got lucky with right to buy.

I believe he summed it up perfectly a while ago.

homelessskilledworker wrote: »

...yet the same guys are forever playing the man rather than the ball..

System

wotsthat wrote: »

That's a random one. I've never lived in a council house let alone got lucky with right to buy.

I don't think there's a great deal of "random" to his neverending stream of insults.

hildosaver

moneyinmypocket wrote: »

I have seen families who have never worked, always get in trouble with law popping out kids ten to the dozen - they then bring up little monsters who follow the same pattern. They almost look inbred some of them which is a taboo subject as if you have underclass breeding in same areas and never moving you do end up with inbreeding at some point

@_@ Good grief...

Loughton_Monkey

wotsthat wrote: »

That's a random one. I've never lived in a council house let alone got lucky with right to buy.

homelessunskilledstriker will never believe that. I was in a council house until I went to University aged 18. But I wouldn't call it 'living'.

John_Pierpoint

What is the problem with living in a Council House?.
During the oil shock recession, that culminated in the International Monetary Fund running our country, I was living in a part reconstructed wreck.
A few miles away there was a speculative estate of unsold houses on the market for about £10k each. The struggling developer managed to do a deal with the local council.
The developer had to spend over £1,000 per home to bring them up to Council House standard.
[I am not sure if these were Parker Morris standards, but they were a whole lot better than my living conditions and those of most of the then private sector.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Morris_Committee