Kensington Resident Says She Will Leave

[trt]

if the Grefell victims move in to her building.

Cant say I blame her, the properties will devalue enormously.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4633644/Kensington-resident-away-Grenfell-victims.html

[Kromovaracun]

//if I were to put it on the market now, which I would, I’d lose money – and if that makes me a snob, so be it.//

Surely, though, that's not as serious a problem as providing housing for people who have lost theirs on a catastrophic tragedy?

You cannot seriously be suggesting that as a matter of policy we should just ignore vacant properties when dealing with a crisis because it might cause house prices to decrease. Priorities there are massively out of whack.

[Kromovaracun]

Sqad

I don't understand the question.

[naomi24]

Baldric at 16:04, I suspect the reality would belie the claims of pious, - and distant - altruism. Easy to support - when you're not personally involved.

[Jackdaw33]

It has always puzzled me as to what type of people live in 'unaffordable' housing. If they live there they can afford it.

[ummmm]

Yes, Jack, but often by top ups.

[anotheoldgit]

albaqwerty

/// ~I don't live in a green and pleasant land, I live here, in the UK where people of all religions and nationalities are welcome. ///

Could be German could you, look what is happening with their all welcoming attitude?

Incidentally I am old enough to remember this once 'green and pleasant land', seeing that you admit that it is no longer that, I wonder what happened to alter the fact?

[ummmm]

AOG - do you not get fed up of trotting out the same stuff day after day week after week?

[naomi24]

Krom, I don’t believe in creating problems to solve problems. Of course these people must be housed but they don’t have to be housed in an expensive block of flats Kensington, regardless of what it means to the property owners there. There are other empty properties available in and around London - and for anyone who doesn't work in London and has no other valid reason to remain in London, in other places around the country.

[naomi24]

aog, //Incidentally I am old enough to remember this once 'green and pleasant land', seeing that you admit that it is no longer that, //

It is where I live.

[Mamyalynne]

Didn't the people looking to live in this luxury check what was in store for the more affordable accommodation first?

//But, regardless, those rich people in the development who have reportedly voiced their discontent at poorer folk moving in obviously failed to appreciate that they would have soon have had some new low-income neighbours in any event.//

[ladybirder]

Ummmm it seems to me most of us churn out out the same stuff on here week after week. I could almost write the script some days:-)

[Mamyalynne]

Wonderfully green and pleasant here too, with a friendly neighbourhood of folks from all walks of life.

[gness]

Like the man said....I'd rather live next door to a man who carries his neighbour down eleven flights of smoke filled stairs.....than Donna....
And I'd rather live next to anybody who cares about folk who have had this tragedy happen to them than those who are so up themselves about their hard worked for lives that they care not a jot for some who haven't been able to do that....
There are many who need more help than others to just live and get by......maybe they've not had the home life...the education...
When those who have been lucky...and/or are able to work to get what they have start to look down on others who have had a crap start in life and have nothing then hope for a good society is lost.....

And as for you, AOG......with your attitude there's little hope for a pleasant land.....

[Kromovaracun]

//for anyone who doesn't work in London and has no other valid reason to remain in London//

Sorry I might be missing something here - how do we know that the people moved into this block of flats do not have a legitimate reason to want to live in London?

[ladybirder]

There are plenty of examples of our green and pleasant land if you look. I just hope we can still say that in 20 years or so.

[naomi24]

Mamyalynne, //Didn't the people looking to live in this luxury check what was in store for the more affordable accommodation first? //

This wasn't "in store" for the block. The City of London Corporation has just purchased the vacant flats. They were clearly up for sale.

[naomi24]

Krom, //Sorry I might be missing something here - how do we know that the people moved into this block of flats do not have a legitimate reason to want to live in London?//

I think you may well have missed something. We don’t know, but that's because they haven't been asked.