Should The Survivors Of The Grenfell Tower Fire, Move Into These Empty Properties?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4755434/Tycoons-homes-lie-shadow-Grenfell-Tower.html

/// Survivor Amina Mohamed, 46, said: ‘They need to make this a priority. We need to rebuild our lives because at the moment we are in limbo.

‘We do not seem to be treated as well as others in the borough because we are not rich. It is not right that there are all these empty homes.’ ///

[trt]

No they shouldn't:

1, Its theft:
2,The landlord owns them.
3, Never get them out,
4, Some would sub-let, like they did at the tower.
5, They would be a mess in 6 months.

Why do they think they are above other people who have to drive, or commute in to work or to see their family's?

[ummmm]

Oh...to answer the question, absolutely not!

[Garaman]

Shouldn't reclaiming some of these homes be the solution?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9030127/Fifth-of-council-house-tenancies-found-to-have-indications-of-fraud.html

[ummmm]

But where do the people they are subletting to go?

[Garaman]

They rent somewhere legit, like everyone else has to.

[naomi24]

Wash your mouth out, Garaman! The very idea!!

[trt]

## But where do the people they are subletting to go##

Back to the country they came from Ummmm, as they are probably illegals!

[Berniecuddles2]

i had a friend sadly passed away now worked for greenwich council..he had to go to a one bedroom flat to fix the plumbing there was 8 people living in that flat sleeping on the floors..where my mum lives council had to evict a family out of a 2 bed flat as there was more than 6 syaying there so it does happen..not everywhere i hasten to add

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

It would seem that no one reported the sub-letting to the council, so why should they report the overcrowding?

[ummmm]

Because over crowding makes it more obvious that flats are being sublet.

[albaqwerty]

I'm beginning to think that councils may just go back to the good old days when a housing officer called round, unannounced, to see if the tenant was behaving properly in the property.

[ummmm]

Garaman - they might know they are subletting.

[ummmm]

Might NOT know....

[Garaman]

Sorry, ummmm, I don't understand what you are implying.

[Garaman]

Ignorance is no excuse, ummmm, the councils are short of housing and need to make sure what they have is being used correctly. If they really wanted to, they could find out.

[ummmm]

I agree 100%. I think it's loathsome subletting and making money when so many people are desperate for housing. It's the tenants I feel sorry for.

[webbo3]

No, these are private homes and should be treated as such.

most have been offered new accommodation but the man they interviewed with the missing legs and the wife with cancer and the daughter with cancer who lived in a tower block are not happy because the new house he was offered and turned down is not near shops (it is) and not near a tube station(it is) and not on a bus route(which it is).

It was better than where he was living for someone with no legs and a disabled daughter.

There are people from the left stirring the pot to cause trouble.


Dave.

[webbo3]

http://gorgeousfm.com/disabled-grenfell-father-its-no-life-in-a-four-star-hotel/


\\He was woken by one of his daughters who smelled the smoke as it rose up through the building. Maher hobbled down 13 flights of stairs with his family to safety. They stood on the street and looked on helplessly as the fire destroyed everything they owned.//


\\“I know nothing until now. Only once someone called me from Westminster City Council and they offered me a house on Harrow Road. I asked them to send me the address.

“When they sent it to me I googled it. There was no bus stop, no market, no shopping, nothing at all. He told me to go to view it. I told him about my situation.//


if you use street view Harrow road is full of shops and bus stops, surely its easier than 13, yeas 13 flights of stairs.


Dave.

[trt]

## ummmm

It would seem that no one reported the sub-letting to the council, so why should they report the overcrowding?

Probably because most of them were sub-letting, so why would they snitch on each other, and lose the extra rent income, to top up their benefits?