Anyone in London spare a fridge?

ince · 8 Feb 2013 at 17:38

If you can't afford to live there move.

Cosimo · 8 Feb 2013 at 17:46

Maccy said:
I expected a Daily Fail article!

.... and you got a story full of fail.

act smiley · 8 Feb 2013 at 18:37

King Damager said:
Send them to one of the cheaper parts of the country!

People who work can't afford that cost, they would have to move to a cheaper place in the country if they wanted to live with 8 children.

If someone worked, they'd realise they had to move if they want to live with such a lifestyle, just because they don't work doesn't mean they should get to live in London in a hotel (admittedly not what many would like, but still).

kd

There is nothing in the article to suggest that the example people aren't working. If you've a family and have a minimum wage job, moving is easier said than done.

There are two areas of this that are problematic.

1. General inflated cost of housing in the South East. Even outside of London, its not easy to get a house within the limits if you're somewhere that attracts commuters.

2. The way in which London boroughs can't pool their social housing. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a deliberate thing by Westminster council to **** it up so badly they can just dump them on a poorer area nearby instead of having to pay for them in that area. To an extent, that makes some sense... except for it would turn places into massive ghettos.

No real way of fixing it short of allowing house prices to fall or building more social housing (which is probably cheaper in the long run than this kind of crazy)

Memoriser94 · 8 Feb 2013 at 18:50

What a shock 3rd world immigrants with 10 kids come here costing taxpayers thousands.,

Westyfield2 · 9 Feb 2013 at 00:02

trixilux said:
I've stayed in the Copthorne Tara and it ain't all that nice tbh...

I was there this week. Yeah not all that special (and the tube line outside during the night) but OK I suppose.

dowie · 9 Feb 2013 at 00:12

King Damager said:
Send them to one of the cheaper parts of the country!

This really - its utterly ridiculous that accommodation isn't managed on a London wide basis... pretty much all of Westminster is very very expensive... the idea that Westminster council should be obliged to house people on benefits or low incomes in an area that it utterly unaffordable for the vast majority of people who earn normal wages is farcical.

Responsibility for housing should fall to the London Assembly and be managed on a regional basis - we shouldn't be putting families up in expensive hotels, spending stupid amounts on private sector rents in zone 1 etc.. when they could be housed much less expensively in zone 3 and 4 etc... especially in cases where they don't even have a job... (why on earth do they *need* to live in an area where the average flat costs half a million plus....)

dowie · 9 Feb 2013 at 00:18

act smiley said:
2. The way in which London boroughs can't pool their social housing.
[...]
No real way of fixing it short of allowing house prices to fall or building more social housing (which is probably cheaper in the long run than this kind of crazy)

This would be a great fix...

If it was pooled we could flog off all the council owned estates in zone one and two and likely build double or triple the number of homes in zone 3 or 4 with the proceeds... not only would this increase available homes to people on already growing council waiting lists but it would inject a load of cash into the construction sector through both building the brand new social housing and through the private sector development projects that would then take place at the sold off ex-local authority estates in central London... (these projects in themselves could be forced to incorporate key worker housing etc.. for members of the emergency services, nurses etc...)

Destination · 9 Feb 2013 at 00:42

Pool it, ship them round, make longterm savings.
Its not about today and tomorrow, its longterm, and removing private landlords from the equation, and getting people off housing benefit altogether should be the eventual goal.

In the meantime, get ali a fridge, lol.

Robbo · 9 Feb 2013 at 00:48

Send them back.

Daze · 9 Feb 2013 at 00:53

I'm fed up being made to feel sorry for people like this. They shouldn't be our problem. If they can't support themselves, stop them sponging off us by sending them back to where they came from.

Rroff · 9 Feb 2013 at 01:02

Mind the rent/housing situation is pretty much out of control to. Every time my contract is up its "we are having to increase rent inline with other properties in the area" and slapping as much extra on as they can get away with.

Gammawolf · 9 Feb 2013 at 01:29

He should be penalized for having too many children and not being able to support them.

DaleTheWhale · 9 Feb 2013 at 01:32

He says the family used to receive £700-a-week in housing benefit until that was capped.

Are you taking the ****????

bLinK · 9 Feb 2013 at 01:49

Gammawolf said:
He should be penalized for having too many children and not being able to support them.

Couldn't agree anymore with this.

Assassin_012 · 9 Feb 2013 at 01:57

Gammawolf said:
He should be penalized for having too many children and not being able to support them.

yeah..

but seriously? 8 kids?

PwnDirect · 9 Feb 2013 at 02:18

leechs

Biohazard · 9 Feb 2013 at 03:03

trixilux said:
I've stayed in the Copthorne Tara and it ain't all that nice tbh...

Surprisingly we used to book a lot of HMRC and CPS staff to stay in there on business trips!

Says it all tbh.

Twirlywoos · 9 Feb 2013 at 08:16

why do muslims breed like rabbits?
why do people have to loose their jobs to fulfil the government's "reduce expenditure targets" when their are stupid rules/regs that they put in place are to blame?
whatever happened to commonsense?