London Housing applicants sent to coast

carefullycautious

What do you all think of moving people from their home city to coastal areas due to the shortage of council housing as seen on the news today.

The news showed a young single parent who had been rehoused into the Hastings area. She stated that by moving her there she had no family support and as there are no jobs she is likely to remain on benefits far longer than if she remained in her home borough.

Hastings council were also annoyed as they have enough problems with there own people having no economy without having others to consider as well.

What on earth is the answer?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

This is but one of many symptoms of the massive housing shortage in this country.

We are short a million+ houses today, and it's increasing by around 150K houses a year.

The only solution is to build more houses.

And the only way for that to happen is to throw hundreds of billions of pounds at the problem, through increases in mortgage lending, development finance, and social housing building.

There is no other solution.

daveyjp

The worst place to move anyone without a job is by the coast, it immediately reduces opportunites to find employment by 50%.

Loughton_Monkey

carefullycautious wrote: »

What do you all think of moving people from their home city to coastal areas due to the shortage of council housing as seen on the news today.......

What on earth is the answer?

I have long since learned not to take any individual case - especially on BBC, or television in general - without knowing more of the facts.

Whenever such cases escalate, and become 'headline', then one tends to learn that circumstances were rather different from what has been painted in the media....

Behind that, though, we have a desperate shortgage of houses, and a population growing almost as fast as India did, plus a growing propensity to live fewer 'people-per-house'. And a hugely overdrawn public purse with which to fund substantial house building.

grizzly1911

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

And a hugely overdrawn public purse with which to fund substantial house building.

But a very flexible credit card, without limit, to continue to pay increasing HB.

Running_Horse

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

This is but one of many symptoms of the massive housing shortage in this country.

We are short a million+ houses today, and it's increasing by around 150K houses a year.

The only solution is to build more houses.

And the only way for that to happen is to throw hundreds of billions of pounds at the problem, through increases in mortgage lending, development finance, and social housing building.

There is no other solution.

The other solution might involve not having open borders and millions of new people competing for housing in the space of a few years. Or we could just abolish the green belt and turn the south east of England into one giant suburban traffic jam.

CLAPTON

Running_Horse wrote: »

The other solution might involve not having open borders and millions of new people competing for housing in the space of a few years. Or we could just abolish the green belt and turn the south east of England into one giant suburban traffic jam.

you can do your own research but you will find we only need a relative modest amount of land to be made available in the SE to meet our housing needs

franklally

It has transformed coastal towns completely by allowing to 3000+ new homes to be built and classifying it as social housing in areas where there were no jobs in the first place.
I assume the government will get over the fact that there is still a shortage of housing by allowing the caravan parks in these coastal resorts who have recently been awarded planning permission to open 52 weeks a year to take homeless families.
Not good for the families being relocated and not good for the towns:(

Own_My_Own

Our local council was so fed up with London sending people here they now have a policy of no council tax benefit until you have lived here 5 years. There some exceptions



Can every working age person qualify under the new LCTS Scheme claim?
No, you will not be considered under the LCTS Scheme unless you have been resident in the Tendring area for a cumulative period of 5 years from 1st April 2008, immediately before you apply for help.

However, there are exceptions to the 5 year residency criteria. They are follows:

If you are physically and/or mentally unable to work, you are classed as this if you are:
- In receipt of Personal Independence Payment
- In receipt of Disability Living Allowance receiving the Care and/or Mobility Component.
- In receipt of Employment Support Allowance and been awarded the “Support Component”
- In receipt of higher and/or long-term rate of Incapacity Benefit
If you are made redundant you can claim for 6 months, providing you were in paid employment for at least 16 hours per week and for 6 months or longer
If you are in the Armed Forces or Emergency Service Personnel and become resident in the area as a consequence of the Local Authority discharging you from duty and placing you in Social Housing. Or you are part of the emergency service personnel and are an owner occupier.
If you are fleeing domestic violence
If you are housed under our Tendring Housing Services or any other social housing provider, as either you were previously homeless or moved into the area under the transfer or mutual exchange scheme.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Running_Horse wrote: »

we could just abolish the green belt and turn the south east of England into one giant suburban traffic jam.

Or better yet use just 10% of the land currently assigned to grazing ponies for little Henrietta and Tarquin.

Only 10% of the land we currently use just for grazing horses would be enough to build several million new houses and take care of people's needs for the next few decades.

You don't need to touch any of the land used for food production, or any of the areas of outstanding beauty, or indeed even 90% of the land currently used for horses.

ukcarper

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Or better yet use just 10% of the land currently assigned to grazing ponies for little Henrietta and Tarquin.

Only 10% of the land we currently use just for grazing horses would be enough to build several million new houses and take care of people's needs for the next few decades.

You don't need to touch any of the land used for food production, or any of the areas of outstanding beauty, or indeed even 90% of the land currently used for horses.

Just got to convince Henrietta and Tarquin's daddy to sell up its surprising what value people put on pets.