Council moves chavs into £200k new builds

Benefits_Blagger

cant find link to story, but was in sunday express. but at last its happening, the new builds are the new social housing.

basically the just of the story was that in oldham, the council (maybe housing association) has bought up a load of new builds which they are renting out for £73 a week. One particular neighbour was pretty !!!!!! as it cost him £200k for his property. he had some kind of rant about how these people wont look after their properties as they dont own them themselves.
every day the news gets better and better!! :beer:

SingleSue

Erm, I am sorry but I don't agree with your calling people who have social housing, Chavs.

I live in a housing association property but I can assure you that I am not a chav, I do look after my property as if it had been purchased by myself and I live amongst other very decent folk like myself.

Yes you get the occasional family/person who will wreck their housing association/council property but they are the minority, not the majority.

*Louise*

Agreed, definitely the minority.

My sister is in a council property, and is in no way a chav. Her flat is immaculate...unfortunately she was surrounded by drug addicts for a while but the council moved them. Not everyone is a chav who will let the house go to ruin.

Just a thought.....If councils sent inspectors round to ensure that their properties were being looked after (the gardens at least)then home owners wouldn't have to worry about living next door to council tenants in the first place.

Markyt

Benefits_Blagger wrote: »

cant find link to story, but was in sunday express. but at last its happening, the new builds are the new social housing.

basically the just of the story was that in oldham, the council (maybe housing association) has bought up a load of new builds which they are renting out for £73 a week. One particular neighbour was pretty !!!!!! as it cost him £200k for his property. he had some kind of rant about how these people wont look after their properties as they dont own them themselves.
every day the news gets better and better!!

Oldham Council doesn't have any money to buy houses, however cheap. I'm a bit sceptical as the story hasn't appeared in any of the local press either.

ruggedtoast

Oh yes the Sunday Express! Maddie, the Queen of Hearts, caravanning holidays, obsessional journalism over house prices, jumpers for goalposts.... Sorry drifted off there where were we?

Toto

Well I think you'll find that a lot of new build estates have a % of social housing, sometimes that's a condition of the build. I don't think that's a bad thing. I'd rather see these places lived in by people who need a home than sitting there empty.

poppy10_2

It's going to happen more and more. New-build flats in Northern cities are lying vacant by the thousands, and their values have plummeted by up to 50%. The investors can't hang on to them, and noone wants to buy them, so either they stay vacant and get squatted in by junkies, or the council buys them up and rents them out to chavs and chavettes. As a neighbour, you are between a rock and a hard palce.

geri1965_2

Toto wrote: »

Well I think you'll find that a lot of new build estates have a % of social housing, sometimes that's a condition of the build. I don't think that's a bad thing. I'd rather see these places lived in by people who need a home than sitting there empty.

Quite right. My sister has just been offered a 4 bedroomed new build house on the outskirts of Weston super Mare - it's a housing association place as she's on the top of the council waiting list for a move to a bigger place. She's over the moon!

dopester

Benefits_Blagger wrote: »

cant find link to story, but was in sunday express. but at last its happening, the new builds are the new social housing.

I think it was in Royton which is close to Oldham. I drove through Royton a few weeks ago as a cheap mechanic did some work on my car which would have cost a fortune at my stealer/dealer. Royton, looks a swell place to live where everyone walking around looks so happy to be alive and full of fun.

This was in the Oldham Chronicle but no link no longer active:

Residents slam plan to rent out homes on private estate

by JAN HARWOOD


RESIDENTS of a private Royton housing estate are outraged that some of the £190,000 homes are to be rented out for around £70 per week.


One home-owner in Rosebay Close fears she could end up living next-door to a Gallagher-style family from Channel 4’s “Shameless” after David Wilson Homes sold six houses — three-bedroom mews — to Guinness Northern Counties.

Julie Jackson said: “I don’t know what we can do to stop this happening, but at least we may be able to soften the blow by getting decent hard-working people and not someone who belongs on the “Shameless” set.”

Another resident, Steven Davies, was disgusted when he found that homes similar to the one he bought for almost £188,000 in October, 2006, were available to rent for £73.60 per week.

He said: “I can’t believe these houses are being sold for what is effectively council housing. We were led to believe that all the houses would be private properties on a private housing estate. I was devastated when I heard..."

BTW lots of councils grant planning permission for bigger estates providing the developer passes over some cheap houses to the council or H/A. Rough and tumble of doing business, and people who pay top whack shouldn't really complain. I also don't think all council tenants are all bad either and suspect they will be vetted for the nicer properties to ensure the properties are looked after.

m00m00

the vast majority of people who live in social housing are perfectly fine people who are a credit to their local community.

unfortunately it only takes a very small amount of 'scum' to make an area very unpleasant for the majority

mitchaa

Move 1 problem family of layabout stay at home benefit scroungers into a nice area, after a year, the estate will look like Beirut.

Seen it myself with a family member. Lovely houses a few years, ago, today the estate is like that found in an episode of shameless.

General things like keeping the lawn nice and tidy and washing the windows now and again, doesn't take much.

These kind of families should all be homed together in high rise accomodation or rehomed to an island off the British mainland:D

The thing is, if you've bought a home close by, you'll see your house plummet in value. Its really not fair on the hard working class who have done well to buy their own only to see it plummet in value by the councils decision to move a trouble family close by.