Council house entitlement!!!

tigtag02

terryw wrote: »

This thread is really so silly. Watch tv, read a book or take up knitting.

Ahhhhh ~ but you're watching too

keelyjrs

lol u beat me to it tigtag!! maybe he needs to take up knitting eh?!!

neas

Living in a Council Housing association isn't meant to be luxury... its meant to be a 'last resort'. If you can squeeze your family into a 2 bedroom then... thats what its about. Don'tforget this house has been gifted to you on behalf of the public.

I can understand people wanting to get as much as they can in life, but there is a limit to how cheeky can be. Council houses are paid for by council tax... paid for by the working people.. some of us who don't even own our own house or struggle with 1 bedroom flats with children because we don't earn enough for a mortgage... but own too much for a council house.

Its an upside down world we live in. I dont think we should blame people for trying to get the most in life... i.e a free house or a bigger house.

Its the same way investors in BTL market have tried to make more money from nothing. I'm more !!!!ed about our government or society letting it happen.

Alot of mothers these days have to work to just support their family, while amother in a council house can enjoy special first years with her child. She can achieve this while the working mum, earning money and paying her way cannot. Its a tad unfair but thats our governmental system... maybe it will change in time when its been abused enough.

For example i know a polish girl who has a 1 bedroom council flat while at uni here, because foreign people are preferenced because they are well foreign... She forget to tell them she has a 2 bedroom flat fully paid for in Gdansk.. back in poland and our government has no ways of checking this. The system is broke and people are abusing it. This hurts those who need this help for real.

barnaby-bear

neas wrote: »

For example i know a polish girl who has a 1 bedroom council flat while at uni here, because foreign people are preferenced because they are well foreign... She forget to tell them she has a 2 bedroom flat fully paid for in Gdansk.. back in poland and our government has no ways of checking this. The system is broke and people are abusing it. This hurts those who need this help for real.

Poles generally are not entitled to council accommodation and the figures show very few have any (that will change when more have been long enough which will be interesting).... university students are not entitled to council housing at all.... and the foreign preference comment isn't worth my time answering.... the majority of abuse of allocation council accommodation is occupied by home-grown chav vicky pollards with countless kids whilst the apprentice aspirational kids on their estates have to live in shared houses, with no hope of their own home and have just lost their 10% tax band so are paying more to support the system.

astonsmummy

neas wrote: »

Living in a Council Housing association isn't meant to be luxury... its meant to be a 'last resort'. If you can squeeze your family into a 2 bedroom then... thats what its about. Don'tforget this house has been gifted to you on behalf of the public.

I can understand people wanting to get as much as they can in life, but there is a limit to how cheeky can be. Council houses are paid for by council tax... paid for by the working people.. some of us who don't even own our own house or struggle with 1 bedroom flats with children because we don't earn enough for a mortgage... but own too much for a council house.

Its an upside down world we live in. I dont think we should blame people for trying to get the most in life... i.e a free house or a bigger house.

Its the same way investors in BTL market have tried to make more money from nothing. I'm more !!!!ed about our government or society letting it happen.

Alot of mothers these days have to work to just support their family, while amother in a council house can enjoy special first years with her child. She can achieve this while the working mum, earning money and paying her way cannot. Its a tad unfair but thats our governmental system... maybe it will change in time when its been abused enough.

For example i know a polish girl who has a 1 bedroom council flat while at uni here, because foreign people are preferenced because they are well foreign... She forget to tell them she has a 2 bedroom flat fully paid for in Gdansk.. back in poland and our government has no ways of checking this. The system is broke and people are abusing it. This hurts those who need this help for real.

Sorry.....but what a load of rubbish!

neas

Speaking from limited experience, she is an art student studying part time and has more brucie bonus points than an english person because she is foreign. They assign houses by collecting points and then bidding on houses that come along, so they wait a while to get a house.

Don't get me wrong, the houses arent great but its a very cheap house. Her boyfriend also has a 1 bed flat as well, waited a while to get it... he was at uni also. He quit uni and became a general layabout smoking drugs and doing alchohol... real benefit to society .

astonsmummy

Just a thought, I'm sure that may people on this site have grandparents, maybe ecven great grandparents who occupied council accomodation for years and years, my nan got a house when as a 16/17 year old had a baby, she is now 75.
SO why is it now seen as wrong for me in a similar situation to get a house?
I think it comes down to bitterness.
If you want to blame anyone, blame the stupid government for selling off vast amounts of housing stock and not putting the money back into housing :rolleyes:

neas

astonsmummy wrote: »

Sorry.....but what a load of rubbish!

By any chance do you live in a council house?

Vested interest maybe?

astonsmummy

neas wrote: »

Speaking from limited experience, she is an art student studying part time and has more brucie bonus points than an english person because she is foreign. They assign houses by collecting points and then bidding on houses that come along, so they wait a while to get a house.

Don't get me wrong, the houses arent great but its a very cheap house. Her boyfriend also has a 1 bed flat as well, waited a while to get it... he was at uni also. He quit uni and became a general layabout smoking drugs and doing alchohol... real benefit to society .

WHat area do you live in?
Cos round here, the polish live in shred accomodation, it's hard enouigh for the english to get housed round here, no way would a polish student be entitled to accomodation here. And they certainly wouldnt get more pionts for being 'foreign'

astonsmummy

neas wrote: »

By any chance do you live in a council house?

Vested interest maybe?

Nope, I live in a housing association house, which is not paid for by council tax as it;s a non profit organization, bit like a charity.
I also pay my rent and council tax - SHOCK HORROR! :eek: