Hundreds of people living in council homes or housing association homes are living in cramped and over-crowded conditions.
Of the 6,800 tenants in Kingston, 377 are in need of a larger home for their families, it has been revealed.
I’m ‘in need’ of a larger house. I just can’t afford one.
Maybe I should get someone else to pay for it? It seems to be all the rage…
Rachel Coleman lives in a small one-bedroom flat in Willingham Way, Kingston, with her partner and two young children, Sophie Fox, three, and Frankie-Lee Fox, four.
She said: “My son has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and it is hard with all his moods in such a small space. There is nowhere I can put him to calm down. It is hard to discipline him.
“We are all in one room and me and my partner get no privacy.
“I have been asking for a bigger place since my son was born.”
Why was your son born, then? You didn’t have the room for the child you
had, never mind another!
Laurie South, Labour’s unsuccessful Grove ward by-election candidate, said: “The frustration is nobody is doing anything in Kingston – the council can even put people into private landlord housing. I think it is appalling.
Really at the moment the council have no plan set about for housing.”
There’s a lot of that going around, Laurie. It seems your constituents have no plan for how they are going to cope with more children, either….
There's a solution to overcrowding - they can tie a bloody knot in it. Meanwhile we must cease and desist encouraging the bastards to breed!
ReplyDeleteHow does China cope?
ReplyDeleteNo, I just think that more of these folks want a bigger house - entitlement innit?
ReplyDeleteShe said: “My son has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder .. yes, well he would wouldn't he
Without slagging off the poor, I'd say we have, not a housing shortage, but a housing misallocation. Loads of elderly people are rattling around in property that they can't maintain properly; young people expect/aspire to go and live in a house or flat of their own before they get married; too many families break up and then need two separate (and poorer) households; we continue to do nothing much about deporting people that we have already officially determined are illegal immigrants.
ReplyDeleteI did dig up some stats last Autumn, if you'd care to have a look:
http://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/what-housing-shortage.html
The newspaper article didn't mention whether Miss Coleman or her partner were on benefits or were in employment, though I suspect the former. There are a number of ways that this could be dealt with:
ReplyDelete1) One of 'em could get a job and rent a bigger place - though that may cut any entitlement to council tax or rent.
2) Move to an area where there are plenty of larger properties on Council housing lists (Middlesbrough has loads I understand) and anyone who had any form of attention deficit disorder would fit right in.
3) She could try and lose some weight which would make the room seem larger.
Just saying
Perhaps even an unsuccessful Toc-H Labour candidate can figure out when & where most of Kingston's 7% rise in population came from ?
ReplyDelete"She could try and lose some weight which would make the room seem larger".
ReplyDeleteLol :)
XX She said: “My son has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder XX
ReplyDeleteOh, what a fucking surprise.
"Meanwhile we must cease and desist encouraging the bastards to breed!"
ReplyDeleteI wish we could! Those 'evil Tories' are sadly letting me down on that front...
"How does China cope?"
:D
"Without slagging off the poor, I'd say we have, not a housing shortage, but a housing misallocation. Loads of elderly people are rattling around in property that they can't maintain properly..."
I'm not comfortable with any approach that seeks to persuade - however gently - the elderly to move out to make way for the younger generation.
It's their property. To do as they wish with it, not as others wish.
"She could try and lose some weight which would make the room seem larger."
ReplyDeleteSNORK!