Why Shouldn't The Grenfell Tower Area Residents Now Return To Their Homes?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/19/grenfell-tower-area-residents-told-return-home-or-lose-council-tenancies

[andy-hughes]

I think any reasons offered will be down to individual circumstances - there is no one-size-fits-all reason why any of the residents should not or cannot return.

If there are any reasons, that's between the residents and the council.

[naomi24]

After all this time the council is right to ask them to return to their homes. It can't be expected to pay the higher costs of housing these people elsewhere indefinitely.

[youngmafbog]

There is no reason, from the article many didnt move anyway and it's the few trying it on. They are probably in nicer accommodation albeit 'temporary'

[retrocop]

Use it or Lose it.
Seems a very fair request by the council. Looks like a sense of entitlement is creeping in and the cyical use of so called trauma victims.
If they believe they can play this card then they will have to wait a long time for larger accomodation says the council.
I am sure the council will have no shortage of tenants to fill the increasingly rare social housing if these so-called victims will not return to the flats they were allocated.The survivors of the Grenfell Tower are the real victims IMHO and should be given priority.
People 70 odd years ago saw housing around them flattened by the blitz but were grateful for a builder to replace their tiles,board up broken windows and they would return without the playing the victim and entitlement card.

[youngmafbog]

That was the British Retro.

[Togo]

If the residents refuse to return to their original homes they should forfeit their existing tenancy agreements. Perhaps the empty accommodation could then be offered to real sufferers of trauma. Our homeless ex servicemen.

[retrocop]

Very True.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// If there are any reasons, that's between the residents and the council. ///

Of course it is, that is why they've rightly told them, "return, or loose your tenancies".

[Everhelpful]

It's LOSE,aog.

[anotheoldgit]

Everhelpful

Oh!!! you are 'ever helpful'.

[Baldric]

Every day is a School Day here on AB

[fender62]

trying it on, ie i lived nr the fire...erm im traumatised, id feel better
if i was given new more modern accommodation and a cash lump some

[Zacs-Master]

Ladies and gentlemen, the sub text to AOG’s post (and the real question he wants to ask, if he’d only be honest) is:
Are the local residents of Grenfell tower using their ethnic roots (AOG would get confused about this point as he’d fail to understand the difference between ethnic roots and a British citizen, as per) to extend their stay, as the council might be afraid of racism accusations?

Just to clarify.

[bainbrig]

One woman explained that she and her children were finding it hard to move back because friends had been burnt to death in that building, only a stone's throw from their place. Burnt to death!

So a bit of sensitivity, even from the right-wing loons on AB, might be in order.

[youngmafbog]

He has not said that at all ZM, stop making things up to cause trouble.

[youngmafbog]

In that case bainbag perhaps they should be moved to an appropiate property in another city.

Others there have managed, she is just trying it on.

[Zacs-Master]

Stop being naive, YMB. AOG only has one agenda. One doesn’t have to look very far to work out what the underlying theme is to just about every question he posts.

[Mamyalynne]

For most it would be best if they would return and start to rebuild their lives even in the shadow of what happened, if a few genuinely can't then maybe relocation is best for them.

Hopefully individual cases will be looked at and advised accordingly.

[sanmac]

ZM, so what if that is AOG's "hidden message"? He's correct: The "race-card" trumps all.

[bainbrig]

Yes, mamyalynne, but when you (rightly) say "Hopefully individual cases will be looked at and advised accordingly", that isn't what's happening.

The local council are threatening her and those in similar situations - saying they will forfeit their tenancies unless they go back or accept a flat in Liverpool (or wherever), taking no regard whatever for the dreadful trauma these people have suffered.

No-one is trying it on (well, no-one except the local council, which is par for their course).

BB