[News] A child becomes homeless in Britain every eight minutes

[Thunder Bolt]

Guess we're all guilty to a certain extent. All those millions pissed up the wall on ironic xmas jumpers alone would make a huge difference to a huge number of kids. Maybe we should all make a resolution - and stick to it - to just buy far less crap.

Why would you want to put more retail workers out of work? I don't see the correlation.

Universal credit, reduced housing benefits, high rents and lack of social housing are more causal than buying crap.

 

[vegster]

I was listening to LBC this morning and for much of an hour there were three callers, one after another who described an upbringing and existence in extreme poverty. It was heartbreaking listening to two blokes who had worked incredibly hard from an almost impossible start in life who were still haunted by their early lives and a head teacher of a school in a deprived area. The headteacher's story was really difficult to hear but ultimately uplifting in his commitment to getting his underprivileged kids as good an education as he could despite being starved of funds and having OFFSTED coming in regularly having his school as " Failing " before they even arrived.

It was said that this sort of story should be in the newspapers on a daily basis but, sadly it does not sell newspapers, but LGBT teaching can cause a controversy that does to act as a smokescreen. There are real and disgusting levels of poverty in this country which are never addressed .

Edit : I have just added the link to the phone call from the head teacher in Thanet, It's a bit long and you hear things you don't think you should be hearing in the 5th biggest economy in the world ( Allegedly ) .

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/present...ational-headteacher-tells-james-obrien-how-h/

 

[Justice]

"Homeless, living in temporary accommodation"

Anyone know what constitutes temporary accommodation and why families would end up on it? Is this not the system doing its job by keeping them off the street?

Boris?

 

[Hastings gull]

I was listening to LBC this morning and for much of an hour there were three callers, one after another who described an upbringing and existence in extreme poverty. It was heartbreaking listening to two blokes who had worked incredibly hard from an almost impossible start in life who were still haunted by their early lives and a head teacher of a school in a deprived area. The headteacher's story was really difficult to hear but ultimately uplifting in his commitment to getting his underprivileged kids as good an education as he could despite being starved of funds and having OFFSTED coming in regularly having his school as " Failing " before they even arrived.It was said that this sort of story should be in the newspapers on a daily basis but, sadly it does not sell newspapers, but LGBT teaching can cause a controversy that does to act as a smokescreen. There are real and disgusting levels of poverty in this country which are never addressed .

Well, that really is a first.Ofsted didn't even bother to look at the school - just wrote down failing. Did that statement not alert you? No, of course it didn't because that was not what you wanted to believe, was it?

 

[Billy the Fish]

I'll hazard a guess it's extended families, couch hopping, hostels and B&B's.

Ahhh ok, so not necessarily state aid then. System potentially not doing its job.

 

[Stat Brother]

Ahhh ok, so not necessarily state aid then. System potentially not doing its job.

I'd imagine third party roofs, hostels, B&B's, etc are paid for by the local authority and I doubt that's cheap.

 

[BBassic]

Ahhh ok, so not necessarily state aid then. System potentially not doing its job.

There's the example in the link about that family being served a Section 21 'no fault' eviction notice which, if I understand it correctly, allows landlords to evict tenants without any real reason.

According to this article - https://thenegotiator.co.uk/evictions-general-election-2019/

Generation Rent says the problem of ‘no fault’ evictions is becoming a key campaigning issue.

Its analysis of official government data shows that of the 260,000 families who faced homelessness last year some 27,450 or 10.5% were via evictions using a Section 21 notice.

I'm assuming some of these families are unfortunate enough to get served one of these and then unable to find another place to live either through scarcity or affordability.

EDIT - I'm not a landlord so am not 100% on what these Section 21 notices entail, happy to be educated.

 

[Ernest]

If you vote Tory then you are responsible

 

[beorhthelm]

There's the example in the link about that family being served a Section 21 'no fault' eviction notice which, if I understand it correctly, allows landlords to evict tenants without any real reason.

According to this article - https://thenegotiator.co.uk/evictions-general-election-2019/

Generation Rent says the problem of ‘no fault’ evictions is becoming a key campaigning issue.

Its analysis of official government data shows that of the 260,000 families who faced homelessness last year some 27,450 or 10.5% were via evictions using a Section 21 notice.

I'm assuming some of these families are unfortunate enough to get served one of these and then unable to find another place to live either through scarcity or affordability.

EDIT - I'm not a landlord so am not 100% on what these Section 21 notices entail, happy to be educated.

its not an "eviction", its serving notice the tenancy will end at the end of the term. if someone refuses to leave it becomes an eviction process. apparently its already going through consultation process to be abolished. same outcome for a tenant of course, they need to move out and find another home. the underlying issue is insufficent housing stock either in private or public sector, there's not enough built or built at low cost for the lower end of the rental market. so when events happen there isnt anywhere for people to go.

 

[Jolly Red Giant]

Ten years of Tory tyranny.

And 10/12 years of Blairite b*llocks before that - and 10 years of the Thatcher hatchet before that - a homelessness crisis is the accumulation of the money grabbing nature of neo-liberalism (and we have the same b*llocks in Ireland with a major homelessness crisis as well).

 

[BBassic]

its not an "eviction", its serving notice the tenancy will end at the end of the term. if someone refuses to leave it becomes an eviction process. apparently its already going through consultation process to be abolished. same outcome for a tenant of course, they need to move out and find another home. the underlying issue is insufficent housing stock either in private or public sector, there's not enough built or built at low cost for the lower end of the rental market. so when events happen there isnt anywhere for people to go.

See, there we go. Thanks for the explanation