Homeless people made homeless to house the homeless?
By Winterishere
@thedevilinme (5215)
Northampton, England
August 14, 2018 5:30pm CST
An extraordinary thing is going on in the U.K around rented housing. Few younger working people can afford mortgages these days and so they rent, taking up most of the renal stock here ,creating an awkward paradox at the lower end of the rental market. The Conservative government dont want to build social housing so to deflate the middle class housing bubble , their core voters, and instead they subsides housing costs for workers and the unemployed with housing benefit given to private landlords to house them instead, the housing benefit making up the rent for low wage and unemployed people to an agreed subsidy. But heres the paradox. There is much MORE money to be made by these private landlords by providing emergency housing to councils to people made homeless, and by trying to win those customers from councils they, believe it or not, make other people homeless by kicking out their original renters. Yep, that creates more homeless they can rent to at much higher costs to councils?? Is that crazy or what and cost the taxpayers million!.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
15 Aug 18
@LadyDuck The house where I live has been deeply damaged by squatters in 2010. Where I live the floor of the living room was painted in green, the walls were tagged, etc...
. We had the same attitude towards squatters (the police could not evict them after 3 days of squat and you had to start a civil lawsuit) until an old woman had her flat occupied when she was away, the media made the buzz around it, and the politicians decided to vote a law making easier the intervention of the police at any moment.
. We had the same attitude towards squatters (the police could not evict them after 3 days of squat and you had to start a civil lawsuit) until an old woman had her flat occupied when she was away, the media made the buzz around it, and the politicians decided to vote a law making easier the intervention of the police at any moment.1 person likes this
@LadyDuck (502957)
• Italy
15 Aug 18
@topffer At least your politicians voted a law, not something that happened in Italy. In some areas in Milan, when someone living alone needs to be hospitalized, the neighbors "guard" the apartment to avoid occupation. Have you read what happened yesterday in Genova? I do not know how many hundred times we have passed on that bridge.

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@redurnet (1796)
• United Kingdom
15 Aug 18
It is crazy, I agree. The housing situation really annoys me right now, mainly because there is lots of building of these unaffordable properties on what was the green belt. Meanwhile my town is basically a row of empty offices and shop buildings that ought to be turned into housing.





