Social housing for foreigners

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-HALF-properties.html

Should British people be given priority to social housing over new migrants?

[emmie]

and the same applies to those who have never worked, unless there are mitigating circumstance why you haven't. why should the state, thus the taxpayer provide you with a home just because you are single, have just produced a sprog, or are on benefits.

[chaptazbru]

Yes, yes, yes !

[naomi24]

//I fail to see any difference, a sponger is a sponger is a sponger in my book. //

I see a difference. Home grown spongers we're stuck with. Imported ones can be exported - or better still refused entry in the first place.

[NOX]

If people are here lawfully then there is no difference in my book, I don't care who gets social housing, whether it be English or non english person, as long as the most deserving person gets it. What really offends me is the lack of social housing because the Tories flogged it all off to tenants and no-one has done anything meaningful about providing any more despite there being huge amounts of homeless people. Do the govts think homelessness will just go away? Well they're in for a shock because having just kicked everyone in the teeth with their housing benefit revamp there will be a good few more before they're finished.

[emmie]

naomi, chance would be a fine thing. The amount of people our borough has had to accommodate from far flung places has to be seen to be believed. A old friend in the local council said that the council policy was that large families even though newly arrived came first in the pecking order, over smaller families, or one person, so stuff whether you have languished on the list for years, paid taxes, or indeed had any connection to the borough at all.

[bazwillrun]

"Are they genuine asylum seekers whom we have a moral duty towards ?"

we have a moral duty to our own citizens first

[B00]

"we have a moral duty to our own citizens first "

As long as if they've paid into the system- yes.

[mrs_overall]

I have my own theory that if immigrants come here, are in full employment and paying their taxes, then yes, they can go onto the waiting list for social housing. And I mean go on the waiting list, not leap frog to the top just because they have 10 children
Those that don't meet this criteria should be housed in basic centres and given vouchers for clothing and food and no cash

[emmie]

Mrs O, i think that would right, but our council does not do that.. not according to the mate that works for it.

[askyourgran]

I agree Mrs o. Social housing is in short supply I'm relieved to hear that members of the armed forces are to be given priority when they demob. Anyone who works and serves our country should be given the first choice, that includes Gurkhas who have served England with pride for many years, it is a shame that they had to be represented at Westminster before being granted the right to live here. Whereas other immigrants come here in droves and expect to have 6-8 bed houses to house their growing families.

[Old_Geezer]

"we have a moral duty to our own citizens first "

No one in our our country is anywhere near the state of a genuine asylum seeker.

[naomi24]

^^ 'Genuine' being the operative word. Got to wonder why so many desperate people, apparently fleeing in fear of their lives, appear to zip through other European countries in an effort to reach Britain.

[THECORBYLOON]

The headline says up to half are given to foreigners but only in two London Boroughs is it approaching that figure and in England as a whole it's 8.6%, hardly worrying is it?

[caleblyons]

Hi anoth,

Yes British people who are normal taxpayers should get priority in the social housing row over new migrants. The government also wants to give local people greater priority for social housing but research shows that only 5% of new lettings are currently going to foreign nationals.

According to their figures 8.6 per- cent of new social housing tenants are foreigners. But in London – where the waiting list has soared by 60 per cent to 362,000 in the past decade – up to half of such housing is handed over to immigrants. I think this is a question where perceptions are very important to change the terms of the local debate.

http://www.plazaestates.co.uk/about/new-developments