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Corbyn Promises Homes For The Homeless
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Let's assume for the sake of the argument that Corbyn could produce the money for this fanciful idea and take into public ownership 8000 houses for the homeless - if I was one of the many 1000s of people/
07:51 Mon 29th Jan 2018
They do exist, Khandro, and they are typically full to capacity. Plus they work very closely with local councils - who are legally speaking obliged to house you if you fall under certain categories (e.g. you are a woman/child, disabled, etc.). This in practice means that single men who are homeless get zero support (or are forever next in line) and are expected to make it on their own because they are considered better able to help themselves.
Now, yes, that may be true in comparison to an invalid or a child. But the truth is that the existing system for dealing with rough sleepers is not working and cannot cope with them in the right numbers because those services just do not have the amount of accommodation they need - even for those small numbers I posted above.
Now, yes, that may be true in comparison to an invalid or a child. But the truth is that the existing system for dealing with rough sleepers is not working and cannot cope with them in the right numbers because those services just do not have the amount of accommodation they need - even for those small numbers I posted above.
I don't think i would cope with a more than a few nights on the street but I think teh issues are much more complex than can be solved by giving a home- drugs, mental health issues etc. I would love to know the stories of homeless people and why they choose not to use the systems that exist.
A few days ago I stood behing an extremely smelly person whom i have seen on the streets in the town centre. He paid in a bags of counted out coins- pound coins and silver- and was able to provide a bank card when they asked him for it to pay the money in. he was on first name terms with the staff so must pay in regularly. To be fair he was not paying in a fortune- about £40-£50 I recall- but I wondered how he was able to get a bank account if homeless.
A few days ago I stood behing an extremely smelly person whom i have seen on the streets in the town centre. He paid in a bags of counted out coins- pound coins and silver- and was able to provide a bank card when they asked him for it to pay the money in. he was on first name terms with the staff so must pay in regularly. To be fair he was not paying in a fortune- about £40-£50 I recall- but I wondered how he was able to get a bank account if homeless.
Togo. For the record . Yes I have worked in Africa and the Middle East. But my chosen career was as a laboratory chemist. I have always enjoyed my work. I consider myself very fortunate to have been paid to live in and see places that would be very expensive to visit as a tourist. But the salary and therefore the pension for my line of work are FAR less than say a banking, or financial graduate would have got. It has never been even a possibility to buy a house, far too expensive,especially with 5 children.(all now adult and working full time) Even with my 2 company pensions my total income means I still qualify for Pension Credit.
The really daft thing is, that if I had never joined a company pension scheme at all ,but had just taken all the money as income, I would be earning exactly the same pension as now. Pension credit take money off the total payable £ for £ for any private pension. So what I lost on the private pensions would be made up for by Pension credit.
The really daft thing is, that if I had never joined a company pension scheme at all ,but had just taken all the money as income, I would be earning exactly the same pension as now. Pension credit take money off the total payable £ for £ for any private pension. So what I lost on the private pensions would be made up for by Pension credit.
In relation to the original post. When I was constable and patrolling a beat it was commonplace on night duty to come across someone sleeping in a shop doorway. The policy in my force was to direct that person to the local 'spike'( a place of refuge manned by the Salvation Army) It was a safe bet, that once I had moved to another part of my beat, that person would return to a shop doorway.Many of the homeless do not want to be helped and,in some cases seem to resent it.
Kromo; //How does Grenfell tower prove that the pattern is repeated across the country?//
There is no end of anecdotal evidence; people on long waiting lists seeing immigrants getting priority - a contributing factor for Brexit votes.
What you should ask yourself is why would that one block be exceptional?
There is no end of anecdotal evidence; people on long waiting lists seeing immigrants getting priority - a contributing factor for Brexit votes.
What you should ask yourself is why would that one block be exceptional?
what i can add is that in our borough, now so diverse you don't know you are in England, many immigrants do get first dibs, its not right or fair, to those waiting years on the housing list, this info was imparted by an employee in the council to me a while back. They know it happens, and can't do anything about it seemingly
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