Stop selling off Social and council homes !!! we must have more real social and council housing built, getting people who are homeless off the streets into affordable homes .
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Margot Lindsay
9 years ago
If the TMO’s are so wonderful as some people claim, why have they not been mentioned other than in brief reference in the Guardian. A piece in the Guardian says: “It's not all plain sailing. Some TMOs have folded after mismanagement and others have become embroiled in disputes with their local authority. One high-performing TMO is also England's largest, Kensington and Chelsea, managing 10,000 homes. Its chair, Juliet Rawlings, says getting involved in managing your own housing is hard work but brings huge rewards. When we set up the TMO, it took away a lot of the bureaucracy, it gave us ownership of our properties and we felt more involved." Surely this TMO should be challenged on their failings in this and not confine criticism to the Council, who have relegated management responsibilities to the TMO.
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tracey thatcher
9 years ago
Government 'affordable housing' has failed in the community. Maintenance payments because of un-adopted housing estates is a rip off, and what's worse is builders profiteering from the poorest sections of the community to top up pensions of some of the richest people in this country .
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Brian Kernahan
9 years ago
as a conservative I really do not understand the archaic and draconian legislation that protects the landlord and usurps the tenants rights
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Nicky Elliott
10 years ago
Featured
Having grown up in a council flat and council house, I am really sad and angry to see how unfair this country has become with sky-high rents. I'm lucky enough to own my own home now, but I fear my daughter won't be able to afford a house like I have. Houses have been seen for too long as investments rather than homes.
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leeroy moxam
10 years ago
this bill put more people
sleeping on the on the
streets.....
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Deborah Ireland
10 years ago
The gap between the have and have nots is greatly widening now social cleansing is happening right under our noses.
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Tim Wakeman
10 years ago
I worked in social housing for almost twenty years no government did what they promised. I'm now studying so I can carry out research that I think will bring solutions and I canbe an activist.
R
Robert
11 years ago
The Right to a Place of Residence is
a Basic Human Right so there
Need's to be Adequate Housing
for Decent Humans to live in
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Terry Richardson
11 years ago
The access to affordable housing is an inalienable right for everyone living in a civilized society. Any government that tries to erode this right is illegitimate
K
Kuzin Duru (Ms)
11 years ago
The government MUST STOP putting rents/council Tax UP and taking our security away, making people HOMELESS. THIS HAS TO STOP! They have pushed people to the point of poverty..We are meant to be going forward, not backwards. I support any campaign that is AGAINST the government taking our homes away,Pushing us out, cutting housing benefits, disability benefits, putting rents up.. the list goes on. We have had enough. Rents go up, standard of living goes up..UP BUT yet when are we going to see a decent wage? When are our homes going to receive proper repairs?
K
Kuzin Duru (Ms)
11 years ago
The government MUST STOP putting rents/council Tax UP and taking our security away, making people HOMELESS. THIS HAS TO STOP! They have pushed people to the point of poverty..We are meant to be going forward, not backwards. I support any campaign that is AGAINST the government taking our homes away,Pushing us out, cutting housing benefits, disability benefits, putting rents up.. the list goes on. We have had enough. Rents go up, standard of living goes up..UP BUT yet when are we going to see a decent wage? When are our homes going to receive proper repairs?
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Fay Roberts
11 years ago
heartbreaking to see ever more people living rough without money for food many of them elderly or disabled in my area of se london my own situation is precarious as a 62 yr old council tenant on a rundown estate with no guarantee that the building and grounds are to be maintained despite active involvement with its management for 25 years these policies not only make people homeless but even for those who are able to get housing there is no longer a picture of community,mutual relationships and support.....how does the cameron government expect us to deliver the famous bigger society values in this atmosphere of social dislocation? council tenants are regarded as potential dissidents and criminals we have been called'socially marginalised' this policy amounts to social cleansing if not social genocide
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Fay Roberts
11 years ago
heartbreaking to see ever more people living rough without money for food many of them elderly or disabled in my area of se london my own situation is precarious as a 62 yr old council tenant on a rundown estate with no guarantee that the building and grounds are to be maintained despite active involvement with its management for 25 years these policies not only make people homeless but even for those who are able to get housing there is no longer a picture of community,mutual relationships and support.....how does the cameron government expect us to deliver the famous bigger society values in this atmosphere of social dislocation? council tenants are regarded as potential dissidents and criminals we have been called'socially marginalised' this policy amounts to social cleansing if not social genocide
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Jim Fearnley
11 years ago
In London, there is a clear strategy of 'social cleansing' at work, involving the forcible decantment (via a range of tactics) by 'social' landlords, and aimed at clearing the poor out of the centre of London and into either outer-London 'banlieues' or sites completely outside the capital (often with little employment prospects, lack of familarity with and desire to co-operate with BME communities, etc). This strategy ,designed to make London an international investment portfolio and locus of financial trading rather than the home to so many and varied communities that it still is, is being pursued by very many RSLs in addition to local authorities. This is the last opportunity we have to actively and vociferously resist the threat to our 'manors' throughout the metropolis.
J
Jim Fearnley
11 years ago
In London, there is a clear strategy of 'social cleansing' at work, involving the forcible decantment (via a range of tactics) by 'social' landlords, and aimed at clearing the poor out of the centre of London and into either outer-London 'banlieues' or sites completely outside the capital (often with little employment prospects, lack of familarity with and desire to co-operate with BME communities, etc). This strategy ,designed to make London an international investment portfolio and locus of financial trading rather than the home to so many and varied communities that it still is, is being pursued by very many RSLs in addition to local authorities. This is the last opportunity we have to actively and vociferously resist the threat to our 'manors' throughout the metropolis.
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Brad Atkinson
11 years ago
We need social housing
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Featured
My husband lost his job because he had Motor Neurone Disease, I couldn't work because of caring for him 24/7, and we couldn't pay our mortgage. Being housed by Dover District Council saved us from literally sleeping rough.
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gareth jukes
11 years ago
we need social housing we need more off them all that's being built are 2-3-4 bedroom houses we need lots of one bedrooms ,affordable homes for those who can not buy.
M
Michael Rowan
11 years ago
The old branch of the N.S.M.M. supported you,re organisation. You are still doing a great job defending Council housing and their tenants. The article in the M.S. says it all. Keep up the good work.
Stop selling off Social and council homes !!! we must have more real social and council housing built, getting people who are homeless off the streets into affordable homes .
If the TMO’s are so wonderful as some people claim, why have they not been mentioned other than in brief reference in the Guardian. A piece in the Guardian says: “It's not all plain sailing. Some TMOs have folded after mismanagement and others have become embroiled in disputes with their local authority. One high-performing TMO is also England's largest, Kensington and Chelsea, managing 10,000 homes. Its chair, Juliet Rawlings, says getting involved in managing your own housing is hard work but brings huge rewards. When we set up the TMO, it took away a lot of the bureaucracy, it gave us ownership of our properties and we felt more involved." Surely this TMO should be challenged on their failings in this and not confine criticism to the Council, who have relegated management responsibilities to the TMO.
Government 'affordable housing' has failed in the community. Maintenance payments because of un-adopted housing estates is a rip off, and what's worse is builders profiteering from the poorest sections of the community to top up pensions of some of the richest people in this country .
as a conservative I really do not understand the archaic and draconian legislation that protects the landlord and usurps the tenants rights
Having grown up in a council flat and council house, I am really sad and angry to see how unfair this country has become with sky-high rents. I'm lucky enough to own my own home now, but I fear my daughter won't be able to afford a house like I have. Houses have been seen for too long as investments rather than homes.
this bill put more people sleeping on the on the streets.....
The gap between the have and have nots is greatly widening now social cleansing is happening right under our noses.
I worked in social housing for almost twenty years no government did what they promised. I'm now studying so I can carry out research that I think will bring solutions and I canbe an activist.
The Right to a Place of Residence is a Basic Human Right so there Need's to be Adequate Housing for Decent Humans to live in
The access to affordable housing is an inalienable right for everyone living in a civilized society. Any government that tries to erode this right is illegitimate
The government MUST STOP putting rents/council Tax UP and taking our security away, making people HOMELESS. THIS HAS TO STOP! They have pushed people to the point of poverty..We are meant to be going forward, not backwards. I support any campaign that is AGAINST the government taking our homes away,Pushing us out, cutting housing benefits, disability benefits, putting rents up.. the list goes on. We have had enough. Rents go up, standard of living goes up..UP BUT yet when are we going to see a decent wage? When are our homes going to receive proper repairs?
The government MUST STOP putting rents/council Tax UP and taking our security away, making people HOMELESS. THIS HAS TO STOP! They have pushed people to the point of poverty..We are meant to be going forward, not backwards. I support any campaign that is AGAINST the government taking our homes away,Pushing us out, cutting housing benefits, disability benefits, putting rents up.. the list goes on. We have had enough. Rents go up, standard of living goes up..UP BUT yet when are we going to see a decent wage? When are our homes going to receive proper repairs?
heartbreaking to see ever more people living rough without money for food many of them elderly or disabled in my area of se london my own situation is precarious as a 62 yr old council tenant on a rundown estate with no guarantee that the building and grounds are to be maintained despite active involvement with its management for 25 years these policies not only make people homeless but even for those who are able to get housing there is no longer a picture of community,mutual relationships and support.....how does the cameron government expect us to deliver the famous bigger society values in this atmosphere of social dislocation? council tenants are regarded as potential dissidents and criminals we have been called'socially marginalised' this policy amounts to social cleansing if not social genocide
heartbreaking to see ever more people living rough without money for food many of them elderly or disabled in my area of se london my own situation is precarious as a 62 yr old council tenant on a rundown estate with no guarantee that the building and grounds are to be maintained despite active involvement with its management for 25 years these policies not only make people homeless but even for those who are able to get housing there is no longer a picture of community,mutual relationships and support.....how does the cameron government expect us to deliver the famous bigger society values in this atmosphere of social dislocation? council tenants are regarded as potential dissidents and criminals we have been called'socially marginalised' this policy amounts to social cleansing if not social genocide
In London, there is a clear strategy of 'social cleansing' at work, involving the forcible decantment (via a range of tactics) by 'social' landlords, and aimed at clearing the poor out of the centre of London and into either outer-London 'banlieues' or sites completely outside the capital (often with little employment prospects, lack of familarity with and desire to co-operate with BME communities, etc). This strategy ,designed to make London an international investment portfolio and locus of financial trading rather than the home to so many and varied communities that it still is, is being pursued by very many RSLs in addition to local authorities. This is the last opportunity we have to actively and vociferously resist the threat to our 'manors' throughout the metropolis.
In London, there is a clear strategy of 'social cleansing' at work, involving the forcible decantment (via a range of tactics) by 'social' landlords, and aimed at clearing the poor out of the centre of London and into either outer-London 'banlieues' or sites completely outside the capital (often with little employment prospects, lack of familarity with and desire to co-operate with BME communities, etc). This strategy ,designed to make London an international investment portfolio and locus of financial trading rather than the home to so many and varied communities that it still is, is being pursued by very many RSLs in addition to local authorities. This is the last opportunity we have to actively and vociferously resist the threat to our 'manors' throughout the metropolis.
We need social housing
My husband lost his job because he had Motor Neurone Disease, I couldn't work because of caring for him 24/7, and we couldn't pay our mortgage. Being housed by Dover District Council saved us from literally sleeping rough.
we need social housing we need more off them all that's being built are 2-3-4 bedroom houses we need lots of one bedrooms ,affordable homes for those who can not buy.
The old branch of the N.S.M.M. supported you,re organisation. You are still doing a great job defending Council housing and their tenants. The article in the M.S. says it all. Keep up the good work.