Work camps aren't "a full rehabilitation". It's been tried. It doesn't work. Well, it works in the sense of providing slave labour for unscrupulous businesses. But not in the sense of rehabilitation.
Is "affordable housing" a red herring when it comes to roughsleepers?
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Work camps aren't "a full rehabilitation". It's been tried. It doesn't work. Well, it works in the sense of providing slave labour for unscrupulous businesses. But not in the sense of rehabilitation.
Whilst I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was a large majority, it certainly isn't every one of them.
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When's the last time it was tried in the UK?
1948, after about 300 years of failing to be any kind of rehabilitation. Although, to be fair, initially there wasn't even any pretence at any attempt at rehabilitation. So it could be said that they only failed at any kind of rehabilitation for about 100 years.
Do you have any evidence that they succeeded in rehabilitation anywhere in the world? Or any reason to think they could now despite having failed in the past and all the existing ones in the present (China has very many, for example) failing today? They sure do provide cheap labour, though. Very cheap labour. Easily made free labour by paying the inmates in scrip that can only be spent at shops owned by the organisation running the work camps. Which, of course, is what usually happens in one way or another.
Maybe it would be different somehow if you were in charge. But you wouldn't be.
Housing is affordable (to some extent) in Stoke on Trent.
Oh, wait..."somewhere grim with lack of jobs"
They need to stop people hoarding houses. My next door neighbour already had 11 houses when he moved in 9 years ago. He asked all the local estate agents to give him first refusal when cheap places come up. The likes of him are literally taking affordable houses away from people so they can rent it to them instead.
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Yep BTL is like pouring fuel on the fire
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So it's never been tried in the modern world in a western nation that complies with human rights.
1948 was a different world. There could be a trial to begin with no need for mass adoption until the trial sees if it could work or not.
A lot of the people have the mentality that I'm worth more, etc. They have to take into account the facilities and rehab are expensive to run and they have to contribute to pay their way.
Or if you want to run them like they did 300 years ago you may as well just ship them all to China.
Probably because it's quite difficult to reconcile putting homeless people in work camps with those human rights.
sounds plausible, the severity of the problem varies from authority to authority. It is so bad in my City that they have closed registrations unless you already deemed in a emergency.
Mainly down to the right to buy program started by thatcher and lack of social houses been built to match the demand.
In my opinion the private market is not possible to regulate rents as ultimately landlords want to make money, meaning renting will cost more than a mortgage on the private market. If its regulated then private stock would dry up, the only solution is a mass building program of social housing.
Mainly down to the right to buy program started by thatcher and lack of social houses been built to match the demand.
In my opinion the private market is not possible to regulate rents as ultimately landlords want to make money, meaning renting will cost more than a mortgage on the private market. If its regulated then private stock would dry up, the only solution is a mass building program of social housing.
It's something that has never worked in any place at any time. That does not bode well for it working here and now. 1948 was not a different world - it was this world and this country.
I'm not saying it's impossible to make it work, somehow. I'm saying that there's no reason to think it would work and plenty of reason to think it wouldn't.
It's a little too reminiscent of Victorian workhouses for my comfort.