New house next to affordable housing

charlieismydarling

As soon as the phrase affordable housing/social housing/council housing is mentioned all the pathetic right wing cowards come out of hiding to post their narrow minded prejudices.

Why not stand up and declare your full name if you believe your views are socially acceptable?

I would rather live next to social housing than the narrow minded, mean spirited bullies here.

charlieismydarling

danielanthony wrote: »

On a development near me, they have put the large detached private houses on the outside facing the fields and the affordable HA places in the middle on top of each other.

Personally, I work hard to provide for my family and would want to live in an environment where I'm surrounded by people who do likewise.

Yawn. I work hard too, to provide for my family, it is just me and my son. We live in social housing and are clean, wholesome and hard working.

How ignorant.

Building_Surveyor

charlieismydarling wrote: »

As soon as the phrase affordable housing/social housing/council housing is mentioned all the pathetic right wing cowards come out of hiding to post their narrow minded prejudices.

Why not stand up and declare your full name if you believe your views are socially acceptable?

I would rather live next to social housing than the narrow minded, mean spirited bullies here.

Ditto! Never heard such prejudice comments in all my life!

silverwhistle

lord_tyrannus wrote: »

some HA tenants are good some are bad it's pot luck. You can't generalise them all as good or bad.

Indeed! Unfortunately I had one of the bad ones as my ultimate tenant in my house although I only dealt with the HA. I've now returned to the property and been hearing stories from all the neighbours. I've also had to deal with the HA who handed back my house in an unsatisfactory state (kicked in front door anyone? That's just for starters...). On one side of me I have privately owned and on the other another HA property. Both have been pleased to see me back and as the privately owned one said: "It's lucky we didn't want to move in the last few years".. The said tenant also left his previous house in a right state, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of sanctions for the ones who spoil it for the rest.

I was at a house-warming at the weekend at a new build with HA tenants opposite. My friends are friendly people and have wished a cheery 'morning' to their neighbours, with no response. The neighbours might be in nice new properties themselves but they still seem to resent those who own but are in no way 'posh' or snobbish.

harrys_dad

silverwhistle wrote: »

I was at a house-warming at the weekend at a new build with HA tenants opposite. My friends are friendly people and have wished a cheery 'morning' to their neighbours, with no response. The neighbours might be in nice new properties themselves but they still seem to resent those who own but are in no way 'posh' or snobbish.

So why not invite them to the housewarming? How can your friends possible know if they are resentful rather than shy? Maybe your friends are like a number of posters on this thread and have not managed to keep their own snobbery and resentment to themselves. Have you ever lived on a completely owner occupied estate where people get looked down on for not keeping their grass at 10mm long and not washing their car every week and "letting down the area"? Snobbery and poor neighbours are found everywhere, and generalisations are useless and an excuse for bigotry.

zarf2007

charlieismydarling wrote: »

Yawn. I work hard too, to provide for my family, it is just me and my son. We live in social housing and are clean, wholesome and hard working.

How ignorant.

While there are many people like you who are unfortunately lumped in with the others, you have to admit that there is a real 'underclass' in the uk, Jeremy Kyle types who feed their children liquid cheeseburgers and have never done a days work in their lives. If just one of these families moves into the development it brings the whole area down....and they are just the type to get affordable housing!

I have voted labour all my life (needless to say they will lose the next election with that fool leading them) but they created this underclass and what really annoys me is if someone speaks out about it (and with immigration issues) they are labelled as prejudicial. What's going on in this country is fact and no amount of airy liberalism can change that.

verulamium

Joined MSE just to post this. Am surprised by some of the responses here. You have no idea the circumstances on which why some people require social housing, but are willing to judge cowardly from behind your iPad or whatever.

I've always thought MSE as a wholesome place designed to help (despite being just a lurker), but this expose a nasty part of MSE I did not want to see.

We used to have a neighbour who were xenophobic, noisy and rude to everyone. Guess what? They were landowners. I guess judging by how danielanthony, zarf2007 and Tancred stereotype people based on the colour of their skin or social status, all private landowners are xenophobic, noisy and rude.

zarf2007

verulamium wrote: »

Joined MSE just to post this. Am surprised by some of the responses here. You have no idea the circumstances on which why some people require social housing, but are willing to judge cowardly from behind your iPad or whatever.

I've always thought MSE as a wholesome place designed to help (despite being just a lurker), but this expose a nasty part of MSE I did not want to see.

We used to have a neighbour who were xenophobic, noisy and rude to everyone. Guess what? They were landowners. I guess judging by how danielanthony, zarf2007 and Tancred stereotype people based on the colour of their skin or social status, all private landowners are xenophobic, noisy and rude.

I grew up on a council estate but I think if you go to one now or an estate with social housing in most cases you will see the 'community spirit' of old does not exist, and many have become 'sinks'. Of course not all, but why do you think the majority of buyers stipulate 'no ex local authority' especially when these properties generally have larger rooms than new builds?

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verulamium wrote: »

Joined MSE just to post this. Am surprised by some of the responses here. You have no idea the circumstances on which why some people require social housing, but are willing to judge cowardly from behind your iPad or whatever.

Hear hear. A lot of people come here just to troll these kinds of views. Who knows if they are really racists or not. Sometimes they get carried away and it becomes obvious what nonsense they are talking. One guy was claiming to earn over a million, and yet he spends his time posting on the "Money Saving Expert" website. Right.

ruggedtoast

I spent a year renting an ex LA flat privately in the East End, surrounded by Bengalis in social housing. No one drank, you could have heard a pin drop after 9pm and the teenagers were polite and respectful, encouraged to study hard, and respect people older than them.

In fact the only people who caused any problems on the estate were the few white kids, and the mostly white estate over the road was a nightmarish no go zone of feral, bafflingly vicious youths, asbo behaviour, and alcoholic unemployable Wayne and Waynettas.

You really can't judge people by whether they are an ethnic minority or not.