1) Council buys the houses. 2) Allocate it for the homeless 3) Hire a few builders 4) Transport any willing volunteers/homeless people to assist in the project of refurbing the houses Gives homeless people something productive to do, along with those who want to help. The housing will then be allocated primarily for those on the streets who helped. At the same time, get planning permission to build a factory and sell it to a private company to bring work. Let the whole town flourish.
If only it was that easy. Housing market failure is a big problem in some areas. The Blair Government set up a Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder project but it just seemed to be about seminars, words and conference buffet's!
Edgar Field Why would it ruin the neighbourhood, and chance of selling to anyone else? Once the homeless have homes; they are no longer homeless, which won't ruin the neighbourhood, it will infact help it because there will be people there.
Grace Fleming who the fuck want't to live there. Syrian refugee's wouldn't want to live in Durham The biggest cesspit in the Northeast pauper land peasants. have you taken ecstasy or L S D? To come up with your STUPID comment,live there? fuck off get real.
Harry Barker so....create a ghetto? You can't just house people. The empty houses are just a symptom. The area is economically deprived. You have create jobs in the area
Samatar Ahmed homeless people are surviving without jobs, if the rent is affordable on a low/no income basis the homeless people may get themselves together enough to go job hunting and make it work. they just need the opportunity, drive and support
topandtale the whole issue is that there is a lack of jobs in that area. The only thing that moving in a load of homeless will create is a ghetto probably full of drug addicts, crime and just will generally bring down the value of the area even more which would make the families leave until it's just a town full of uncontrollable homeless
***** no my friend. 13 years in the British Army and I spent 18 months living under a bridge a bathing in the river that ran under the bridge. Maybe some councils value their military veterans but mine definitely doesn't. I sometimes wonder if it is held against Me!
@@Akmak so why did the reporter say £1 for the lot? i no they can lie but there's a BIG ol difference between 75k n £1 !? and im not saying i dont believe you i just dont get why it was said and put in caption your more then likely right no i no you are its just confusing and a big mistake todo?
nah, they will sell them all for £1 aslong as you have the money in the bank to fix them all up, I know a polish man he came to uk when he was 12 without his mum/dad and now hes a worth over 50mil he does similar ....
They shipped 200 odd immigrants to a place nearby called coundon. They were bussed in midday on a Monday on Tuesday or ming the buses returned to collect them
@@Bessskar So, if another country adopts Capitalism and the living-standards increase significantly (as in the case of Estonia), does it mean it's a failed system?
@@yorkshiremgtow1773 obviously in your case no, but in the case of doormant houses in stoke, yes... boom or bust cycle is what market capitalism is. it requires 'infinite growth' in an finite planet... and as for communism, that is prescribed poverty and work enslavement of the masses
@@Bessskar But Capitalism doesn't require infinite growth; this is a common misconception. If you have a business, and are happy with the turnover you make, why do you 'need' to expand?
"awful, awful, bad conditions, rats, bad, bad" mate, this looks literally like my house in Liverpool which I pay £600 a month for - shouts out Wavertree.
@@stevensmith-xz7pj I worked on a pound house on that road, emptied it an filled about 3 skips. Last time I was there we were doing the last bits to help a family move in which was nice. Tbf there's loads of work being done on the pound houses round there
Saying it's not that bad 🤣 yeah I live in the town over I have friends in these streets and it's wayy worse now and full of crime houses burned out old people home invaded muggings police helicopter out all the time and the houses are falling apart full of damp fucked electrics copper pipes stripped out probably asbestos to 😒
Why not remove a wall to make a 2 bedroom a very roomy 1 bedroom. Surely that would work for some of these homes and certainly be nicer than the current tiny rooms AND drop them down into a more affordable range. It wouldn't take much money to do it...in fact they could hire out of work people to do it. It's ridiculous that 11,000 people go without while these homes are left to moulder.
i think it would be a good idea to try and entice a big factory or nuclear power plant etc usually you would not want something like that in or near your town but it can only be this dead because of joblessness , if that landlord was renting all those properties to people who were entitled to housing benefit then the area has not got enough well paying good hours jobs and a huge factory or power plant could provide those so people could afford to buy these houses real cheap and do em up
landlording comes with obligations, you can't lower the rent below cost of the obligations. Best to just sell for £1 as they said then the people living their don't have to pay rent (except council tax, water standing charge, and baseline heating).
Yes move people with no money to a place with no jobs that will definitely not get them trapped in an awful povity cycle with no way out The area needs job investment not just body’s in buildings
@@randomcallum job investment gives people something to do. That's not the source of occupancy. You need a pub first because people need water more than anything else, then a farm shop because the people there need food second of all, although the farm shop could give free drinking water by the glass, then someone can build a gastropub nearby with this "locally sourced food" concept so wealthy travellers will bring demand for the service sector at a different level of monetary value and start making people disproportionately wealthy given the work, that will attract workers and expand the services offered near the pub.
jrgboy but the people will open jobs then it will grow... Places start from nothing to a lot you know. If someone opened some shops more would come and they would open companies.
This is heartbreaking. I used to live in Hartlepool and worked as a photographer for The Hartlepool Mail. I often worked in Horden, photographing Playgroups and Mother and toddler groups. These are decent hard working people, these homes should be made good and affordable for the residents of Horden . Many of whom will be the children l photographed, now grown up, and remember with affection. ❤️
EH? HARTLEPOOL.I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE SAYING THAT.I WENT THERE IN 1954 WITH MY GREAT GRANDAD AND I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.THE ONLY REASON THAT I DIDN'T MOVE THERE IS BECAUSE I LIVED SOMEWHERE ELSE.I'D MOVE THERE NOW IF I COULD BUT THE HOUSE PRICES ARE TOO EXPENSIVE.I SPOKE TO ONE BLOKE,HE WANTED FIFTY POUNDS!!!
It is heartbreaking. A great community, utterly destroyed, repeatedly, by government powers. Its disgusting. The miner statue with his heart ripped out is so very apt, it makes me cry.
Durham council is stupid the Housing Association offered to sell to the council the blocks of empty houses for £1 for the whole lot and they say no, when there are people on their housing waiting list desperately in need of housing. It's so wrong.
+DIONNE FRANCIS-BROWN it is wrong but the tenants & housing association has run them into the ground if the council bought them they would be responsible for repairs & up-keep ,Most councils are selling of there stock to associations & private landlords.
DIONNE FRANCIS-BROWN if those ugly looking house's were only half a penny, Those Nortern peasants still could not afford it. Me? I live in the south, hot summers, less rain, very clean [ no litter ] and lots and lots of work. "LOADS OF MONEY".😎
Why was a human who fought for us, risked their life in the army. Why were they left homeless instead of people who do nothing with their lives. It's just sad😔
Who says he was risking his life, the majority of the military are glorified civilians. Heres the real question why didn't that sucker save some money up while he was wasn't paying rent and getting free food in the army? Makes me laugh people talking about this man in the army like he's owed a free house and the rest of the country has to pay for it? He should learn to manage his money and not come out with nothing, It's especially lol given he wouldn't even have to pay rent, food etc which takes a chunk out of any low wage persons wallet.
Sahad Qasim *Thank you for the idea. Theresa May has noted your request. Although we aren't promising anything...Mises May says one thing and does another*
I'd just buy all of the houses for a couple hundred quid, either demolish them and rebuild on the land, as there is already infrastructure, or do the current houses up. You'd basically be buying land with inbuilt roads, clean water, electricity and sewage system. Sell all of the houses, it would be a lovely new town that had land that cost nothing.
And are you going to start up a business there? This is a free market economy, you need businesses to supply jobs in order to supply income, so they can afford a house in the first place. You cant even open up a shop or a bar if there are no productive jobs around in the first place as no one has any money to spend.
I'm guessing a lot of people who don't live where they grow naturally won't know that they are their own plant, not just balled-up dried wheat grass or hay or something.
@@Tor128 If you are on benefits and are a single person, you get a percentage deducted from your benefit payments(20% or so I think per bedroom) if you rent a place with more than one bedroom. These houses won't be 1 bedroom places thus no one who is single on benefits can afford them. There's also the issue that one-bedroom properties are not exactly common, most are 2bedroom and above.
@@veeeks2938 Then they can find a friend or a partner. These are not a council homes, the landlord is an agency. Also, all tenants could have the names on the lease, no need to sublet. When I couldn't afford rent for an entire apartment I lived with flatmates for 5 years. Most people that live in London and other big cities do that, so there's no reason for people in this town that are on benefits not to be able to do the same.
Why has no one just brought the lot and done them all up? Could make nice small house for affordable prices or someone homeless or students anything really
Probably there is a lot of monthly and yearly upkeep on top of any renovation costs you want to do, so you need quite a bit of cash to make that work. Even if you could "buy the lot" for a quid its a big investment because of all those costs.
This is one of the many reasons we need an interventionist Labour government - not a Tory one that just sits back, shrugs its shoulders and says 'it's the will of the free market'.
@Davy Tornado - Being interventionist isn't scary. Not being interventionist is scary. It's one of the differences between left and right wing viewpoints. It's much easier to be a Tory government than a Labour one because the Tories don't do anything other than cut spending and privatize anything still state owned so the sales proceeds can be used to fund tax cuts for rich people. If you're not in the richest 1% vote Labour.
something like a land-value-tax could have helped. The problem is we're all trying to squeeze into a few large cities - if there was a bit of chronic economic pressure for people to seek other places then capitalists will take a chance in ghost towns and work hard to market the place. What happened is that an economic pressure was applied to this village instead (the bedroom tax in a homogenous estate is a harder pressure than it is in a diversely partitioned city so people naturally left the village for the city - exactly the opposite from what most people posting here seem to want). Capitalism is the only way most people can be effective and happy, you just have to be humanist capitalists and make sure you set the tax landscape so capitalists naturally have the moral effects. This is because most people seek out opportunities to thrive - so you have to avoid fighting them or else you'll cost too much and hurt them and you don't want to hurt most people or else you're worse than capitalists. Herd Not Hurt.
My nan and grandad lived on Seymour Street , they passed away long ago,loved my childhood exploring the Dean, walking alongside the North sea, shame .. take care who is left XXX
The media keeps going on about a "housing shortage". This is the side that doesn't get reported. Empty homes, across the north of England and the south of Scotland. All former industrial areas. All full of empty properties. It's not houses the country is short of; it's money to buy these properties and repair them.
Well they're only a quid, I'm sure you could get some young people, tradesmen and the like, to do up their own houses in return for a low rent, lord knows I'd do it.
'It's like Beirut': the town where homes are on sale for £1. This is Horden, County Durham. Once a thriving mining community. Now emptied of jobs, and increasingly of the people who gave it life and soul.
These small towns were mostly expanded for one reason. To house the coal miners. After Thatcher the coal mining collapsed. The problem is the unemployment. Who wants to live somewhere without a job and income ? Even if these houses doesn't have any value today. The real cost of a house is its maintenance. Homeless people don't have steady jobs. Who will pay for the unavoidable repairing costs of a house or the electricity and water? These houses will become slums. The industrial revolution in Britain was based on the coal. The demand for coal was enormous and the coal industry employed millions of workers. That affected the social fabric and the rural areas of Britain. During 1970's the strikes of the coal industry and the severe electricity problems, made the coal unfavorable. In 80's the coal industry abruptly died. Local communities were depending on the coal industry for ages and numerous generations. The coal towns didn't die in a year neither in a decade. The old generation resisted but newer better educated generations of course want a better future somewhere else and the result is these ghost towns.
Diane Huntley What benefits? They've cut them to the point that thousands of disabled people are dying every year because their benefits were taken away (can you walk five feet? clearly you're fit for work, despite the fact that your disability is severe epilepsy and doesn't affect mobility like that), do you think able-bodied poor people are getting anything at all to help them?
Rollyz "Lazy" people, so my friend who got abused all his life and then chucked out at 17 with no job prospects deserves to live in a mold infested house with no working shower in a God awful area. There are people taking advantage of the system but when cuts are made people who need genuine help get shitted on. Not all of us came from nice families who wanted us educated or even fed us properly you know.
Rollyz Disabled people are literally dying because their benefits were taken away, you're full of shit. Cutting benefits has not made people more likely to go out and find work.
Rollyz *Jeremy Corbyn doesn't support Hezbollah, Hamas and other groups you listed. So why lie? The Torres made all those cuts taking money away from the weakest in society instead of the strongest and wealthiest in society. The Torres made all those budget cuts, etch and for what? The Torres said they would balance the book's but they haven't balanced shit. The Torres say one thing and do another. How many times has Theresa May lied and performed U turns? She said no election 7 times and then launched an election to win a majority...she lost!*
Rollyz think of it this way mate. Your not gonna get very far calling people your enemy are ya lol. what's wrong with laying a wreath on someone's grave? killing is wrong no matter the reason and celebrating someone's death is wrong no matter the reason. They all have families they are all human beings politics and religion is a crock of shit at the end of the day, it's about people. And to make progress you have to treat a situation as such
Rollyz I think you'll find almost around 40% of the uk population of this country voted to make that man prime minister a couple of days ago... so yeah
As UK we need to stop building up south and build the north and other area like this create jobs regenerate the area build infrastructure..transport jobs etc
TrueWarr10r mate I used to live in County Durham in Newton Aycliffe and I thought that was a ghost town like but when I look at this I’m like no wonder why people moved to Peter Lee
There is far more to this than the bedroom tax. Unfortunately this area has been made uninhabitable for working folk that can actually pay the going rate of rent, as well as those on benefits that work hard to find work. The reason is the crime and violence in the area. You would not dare park a car on the streets shown in this video, because your car would not last. The houses themselves have nothing wrong with them, I am familiar with them and possibly some of those in the video. Under normal circumstances, the low rents for fairly decent housing would suit many young single working people, but they, like I, could not consider these houses due to the level of threat posed against you. This isn't the fault of the housing company, or benefit reforms, but it has been a problem for a couple of decades now, and it is the fault of the residents who consider crime, violence and terrorism either an occupation, or a hobby. These are the people that were raised in the area in the 80ies onwards. It is a massive shame that this has happened, but lets not blame the wrong organisations. This housing company has done a fabulous job at taking a risk and investing in some high risk properties to allow decent people a chance to live. It is the low lives that ruin it, and they are killing their own village.
From what the gentleman says no one shows interest at the moment!! Things don’t get worse there is solutions .. many are on the street x army guys who are on the streets now!! Give them a chance to live again, a reason to be off the street .. many x army are living in temporary housing .. solutions are there it’s the council to work on it.. too expensive then rebuild or open it into a homeless units!!!
I literally live 30 minutes away from this place and my area isn't the best but it's clean and nice, I can't believe that a 30 minute drive would completely flip that over.
They are ex colliery houses. Horden had at one time the largest Coal mine in England. Now the place is a Dump Like all the other villages around the area Blackhall Easington Wingate etc Pubs and shops youth clubs all closed down. Thank you Margaret Thatcher.
@@rhyfelwrDuw well, as the famous quote went........He started the strike with a large union and a small house and finished with a small union and a large house..
Well if you can buy one of these houses for a pound,then the peeps that moved out because of the bedroom tax can buy one for a quid and move back in and live rent free😊
If they moved out because of the bedroom tax they wouldn't move back in later on by paying ￡1 to buy it because it would still be a council owned. The councils at no stage since Right to buy came into effect forced people to move out so they could offload 100's or 1000's of properties to the Private sector. That's just not how Right to Buy was supposed to work.
Bedroom tax? I in Dublin in a 2 bed small house with 2 teenage boys and 4 young kids and I pay 80 euro a week and can't afford it but not want b homeless
Well nice fact is no matter how much times its been destroyed it stands back up. She used to have the first airport in the middle east, and it was called paris.
Since the Pits closed people moved to find work elsewhere leaving these villages looking like ghost towns . There are quite a few of these villages in the North East thanks to Maggie Thatcher. From a Miners Daughter Northumberland.
This is outrageous why doesn't the council by these, we are so desperate for social housing, can't they find a creative solution. Makes me sad I have lived in a basement studio flat that is dark and mouldy for years I would love to live in a whole house. Wow! I would relocate to inhabit such a wonderful space.
How is this even possible? It's a half hour drive to Newcastle, less to Sunderland, and the homes are empty? Seen them online going for £25k. Horden to Sunderland, is the same distance as me going from my home to Glasgow. Surely there must be jobs there??? I do that distance 5 times a week. Wish houses here were going for £25k, you would be lucky to get £125k and the new developments are going three times even that. Just how?????? I'd be tempted if it wasn't for having a kid and being petrified of your school system down there, nvm uni fee's later on. £25k houses, i can only dream.
This happened in Stoke on Trent , the houses were sold for a £1 but there were regulations on how the renovations were done , for how much money and a time restraint on finishing the work to make the homes of a good standard ! These houses were also not to be put up for sale for a certain amount of years !! It’s not as simple as it seems ! But why a local council would not buy them and rent them out is astounding !!!
For those non Brits who don't know what bedroom tax is: We have a significant proportion of our country unemployed, these people get their rent paid by the government. Bedroom tax says if you live in a house with more bedrooms than occupants, then they'll only pay for, eg, 75% of the rent. The reason it's a ghost town isn't because of bedroom tax, it's because they were relying on the jobless to pay for the economy.
Just like Detroit. I know a homeowner there who just walked off and left his fully paid for house with the key in the door. As far as this situation can't thr people on benefits have roommates Do they have to have individual homes?
The Thatcher legacy - and does the government care a toss - draw your own conclusion - "that woman" as the late Eric Heiffer MP once said - cannot be held to account after her death but for me she always will be - the scars will live indefinteley in our broken society
It will affect us as long as we live, like the first would war 1914 to 1918 and the Jarrod marches in the 1930,s generations only just gone a few years ago because they are new dead, the working classes get shafted all the time, like the minors in 1984
Tony Griffin I thought Thatcher was alright she done the right things of getting rid of mines because my cousin soon as he left school went down the pit at age 15 in the 80s and I told him it was stupid and they’ll close soon but he just ignored me and 2 years later when he broke his hand while using a drilling machine the mines closed
In my 71 years, I've never come across a local Council that was up to its job. They're the curse of our nation, but have unlimited yet undeserved power. Grrrr.....
This town sprang up out of a booming, local-mine driven economy. The problem is that the mines have all run out and no one was _prepared_ for that. Now mining can be a useful industry, but it's only _one_ industry. If it's an industry that is no longer producing, it's time to start finding ways for _others_ to function in this area. It's a classic case of too many eggs is one basket. If you want people to start moving _into_ those homes, you will have to find a way for them to start bringing _money_ and _goods_ into those homes as _well._ Bring in some more "baskets," by which I mean "industries," and the more, the better. A _diversified_ economy is an _adaptable_ economy.
These houses could be sold to a Housing Association set up to allow a 50% tenant ownership ……the Council could give this project a ten year Council Tax rate of 30% and ask Firms who set up shop within a three mile radius , their Business Rates will be 30% for ten years in order to help with regeneration and local employment. Perhaps the real reason the Council do not care is that Councillors will not benefit directly .
The Government could put this town to so many good uses. What is wrong with our Government? Are they all going out for long walks because they "have nothing to do"?
Not too far from the truth as a lot of the redundant miners would walk dogs in the nearby woods and beach. The mine was closed in the mid 1980s and as such the whole community was badly let down and suffered accordingly. Durham County Council would not have the monetary resources to refurbish these properties. I grew up here and left in 1965 to join the Air Force and I am so sad to see what has happened to these houses and had relatives living in many of them. However, they only form part of the village and today. these streets are surrounded by good housing. I do not have the words to properly describe what a thriving, hard working and mostly friendly place Horden was when the Pit was working. Lots of smoke and coal dust in the air but the houses were kept clean and tidy. The coal was mined under the North Sea and I believe went as far as 5 miles under the Ocean. We were taught at school that there were enough coal reserves to last for at least a further hundred years. The Pit Spoil was dumped by ariel flight into the sea which turned the beach into a black quagmire. The National Trust and Durham Coast Heritage Project is gradually reclaiming it but it will take years to get back to its natural state. I live in Southern England now but I will never disdain the people and I am proud of the area I come from. I worked hard all my life and I was just following the ethic set by my Grandfathers, Father and Uncles who were all miners. They suffered injuries and had good and bad time and were more than well supported by their womenfolk I hope and pray that things will get better for the young people there who are not fortunate as I have been. I do not claim to know what the answer is. When I served in the Low Countries and Germany the Governments there have had the foresight to place their coal mines in mothballs in case they are needed in the future. Our mines were just abandoned.
It's a shame, but these old mining towns all over the country are either forced to become charity shop havens, or die. There's an old mining town near me; most of the shops on its high street are closed, and the only surviving ones are phone shops, charity shops, takeaways, boozers and the odd computer shop. A few supermarkets are dotted around the outskirts, but besides that the town is a mere shadow of its former self.
People that think simply giving the houses to the homeless are just too shortsighted, it's going to costs billions for maintenance and bills for the property. Will you fit the bill with your taxes?
This is why I would not invest too heavily in housing. You never know when this could happen. I once lived in a nice wealthy area, big Victorian houses. A few were bought by the council, turned into flats and let to scum bags and then there was a slow exodus and those left were then stuck there unable to move out
Yes it is and for a few reasons, one of them is Councils or housings don't have 1 bedroom properties for everyone to swap over into, so you are penalised purely for the position you are in with no way out.
The council will not pay full rent if you are not in one of their houses. The remaining part of the rent has to be paid by the renter. If you are on benefits this is not affordable. Vicious circle.
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+Johns Corey Agreed. Build cover to cover like that, with no room for some flowers or a garden, let alone a fruit tree. Then they wonder why they won't sell I'm glad i'm not the only one who noticed they left no space for plants.
You guys don't understand, they were built for miners and were owned by the local mineowners and factory owners so that their employees could have cheap housing close to the mines and factories. They were not built to look attractive they were built 100 years or more ago to house workers and that was the sole purpose.
They soon pulled all the Coal Mines down they could not wait to demolish the lot. Horden Blackhall Wingate Easingto Etc it sadly is a Dump No community spirit and the comradeship has gone.
Turn that town into a free town for the homeless 1) gets homeless people of the street. 2) gives homeless people a shelter. 3) they can learn to develop themselves.
Put a high concentration of vulnerable people with mental health issues, substance abuse and addiction in one area.........Yeah see how that goes down.
Kromzey l live in London and at night especially the main line Stations you can see a large percentage of the Homeless and believe me they are drug uses or alcoholics who will never go to work if a job was offered to them , they are what they are Oxygen thieves . I witness it on a regular basis. The problem will never be solved. There are workers and shirkers everywhere, l am and have always been a worker.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴. I think maybe 20 percent at most are the real needy.
I'm homeless soon with 2 teenagers !!! Council only give you a place after 5-7 years ship you off far away to no mans land. Not that I've ever lived in a council flat. I'm on here trying to find a way to security, so I'm scrolling through all these sites for tips and tricks on buying cheapest places. And building up from there.. I'm not so young but I can't give up hope.
If Durham Council bought these houses for a quid and gave them to people that are low income, i bet they would be fixed up and probably more nice then any developer could do, just might take a little longer for them to get there is all. You cannot imagine how resourceful people who have a low income are. Instead of leaving them empty, give them to those who need them and let them make a go of it.
Totally agree. I was a single parent with two young children, it's amazing what you can do with determination, spit and glue. Where there's a will there's a way and poundshops are amazing. 🧹🗑️🔨
why don't we all get together and buy this place and do a mass clear up and renovation project then open them up for the destitute and homeless rent free but residents will have to pay basic bills etc.any ideas?
People getting free housing from the council nowadays are far too fussy. They demand to live in state of the art homes in nice postcodes at no cost. Councils need to start housing them in areas like this, then maybe our taxes would go towards saving the NHS instead!
i want to buy 6 houses then. 1 for sleep 1 for eat 1 to watch television 1 to cook 1 to use the bathroom 1 to read have a party 1 to do my homework 1 to study opsss i mean 8 houses
Stuff like this has started happening in my town too. There's been a house in the middle of a pretty empty street that the council have been considering rebuilding but they just got bored halfway through and left it with half of the building knocked down. Its been like that for years and it ruins the entire street more so than the borded up houses. It's disgusting. 😤
*voiceover:* “Nobody knows what to do with so many empty homes”
*Homeless people:* hi
Stella W they would just turn it into. Disgusting crack dens
@@Blank-km4qr You mean SOME of them would
bigbad123321 no pretty much all of them cause the ones that won’t do tht have already been housed
Not Who You Think I Am do you realize how many families with literal children live in hotels and b&bs
There would be no jobs for them
1) Council buys the houses.
2) Allocate it for the homeless
3) Hire a few builders
4) Transport any willing volunteers/homeless people to assist in the project of refurbing the houses
Gives homeless people something productive to do, along with those who want to help. The housing will then be allocated primarily for those on the streets who helped.
At the same time, get planning permission to build a factory and sell it to a private company to bring work. Let the whole town flourish.
Will Jenks they don’t have the budget to build a factory. They cost millions.
And where are these homeless going to come from?
Will Jenks not sure you quite understand property development , that’s not how it necessarily works
If only it was that easy. Housing market failure is a big problem in some areas. The Blair Government set up a Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder project but it just seemed to be about seminars, words and conference buffet's!
If only it was that easy
Think how many homeless kids and people that could move there...
Well theyre a quid now. Problem solved
Trust me you don't want to live there
@Exotic Prime there's no mortgage if the house is a pound
Exotic Prime they might be homeless but they don’t need to mortgage a house that costs a quid 😂
Well if they wanted the houses they can but it doesn’t look like any one is going there
They should help the homeless wit them houses
Edgar Field You're disgusting.
Al Funcoot cool
Edgar Field Why would it ruin the neighbourhood, and chance of selling to anyone else?
Once the homeless have homes; they are no longer homeless, which won't ruin the neighbourhood, it will infact help it because there will be people there.
but how would the homeless make money? it isn't near cities or busy towns and it's not as if there is anyone there to work for
Grace Fleming who the fuck want't to live there. Syrian refugee's wouldn't want to live in Durham The biggest cesspit in the Northeast pauper land peasants. have you taken ecstasy or L S D? To come up with your STUPID comment,live there? fuck off get real.
And there is a homeless problem in this country. Give them to Shelter.
Harry Barker so....create a ghetto? You can't just house people. The empty houses are just a symptom. The area is economically deprived. You have create jobs in the area
Samatar Ahmed homeless people are surviving without jobs, if the rent is affordable on a low/no income basis the homeless people may get themselves together enough to go job hunting and make it work. they just need the opportunity, drive and support
topandtale the whole issue is that there is a lack of jobs in that area. The only thing that moving in a load of homeless will create is a ghetto probably full of drug addicts, crime and just will generally bring down the value of the area even more which would make the families leave until it's just a town full of uncontrollable homeless
Babbity Boo war veterans don't get preferential treatment with housing from councils. I didn't.
***** no my friend. 13 years in the British Army and I spent 18 months living under a bridge a bathing in the river that ran under the bridge. Maybe some councils value their military veterans but mine definitely doesn't. I sometimes wonder if it is held against Me!
mr beast should go here and play monopoly irl 2
@@rhythmaster2350 💀
The FortLife That bad huh
I'm the best at monopoly
@@Jippie2408 I'm from Easington so I know all about it mate
Scarry hous
£1 for the house.. I want to buy 20 house's and 5 streets
cool ladd £1 for the lot it is
Cool Lad it’s 75k per house, actual price
@@Akmak apparently
@@Akmak so why did the reporter say £1 for the lot? i no they can lie but there's a BIG ol difference between 75k n £1 !? and im not saying i dont believe you i just dont get why it was said and put in caption your more then likely right no i no you are its just confusing and a big mistake todo?
@@Akmak ur vids are mad
yet millions are still homeless.....
leah marie in UK there are not MILLIONS who are homeless
Yes but in Europe we have 11 million empty properties.
because of the HIGH COST.
Homelessness is a choice.
@@alicec1533 no a human has a choice what he or she chooses to do everyday in their life.
Homeless person: "I can't afford a house"
Horden: "hold my pound"
hold my dck
????
i have 40 grand i will be rich in Horden lol
@@lunafringe10 no thanks 😂
The houses are not for 1£ they are advertised at 75k each.
they were offered to the council in bulk for £1
Hope Yukizmizu that's how they scam you sell a house for a dollar then you end up owing all the priority taxes
nah, they will sell them all for £1 aslong as you have the money in the bank to fix them all up, I know a polish man he came to uk when he was 12 without his mum/dad and now hes a worth over 50mil he does similar ....
how is he worth over 50mil? wtf
TheDantheman12121 Nor are you. Learn how to type a proper sentence before slamming someone for their idiocy.
alright, I've got 50p and KitKat, do we have a deal?
Claire Morrisroe Don't like kit Kat Clair have you anything else you can offer?😜
50p Wilko's floor wipes tho
60 and a Mars bar.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@robertcase60 i thought in make that same proposal 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Get a bus fill it with homeless and take them there..
The wont accept
The neighborhood crackhouse
They shipped 200 odd immigrants to a place nearby called coundon. They were bussed in midday on a Monday on Tuesday or ming the buses returned to collect them
Once they house them they will tax them.......as everything in these societies Eu or 'the West". You live to pay tax not live to be free.
They’ll take everything valuable and leave
This is what you call a failed system.
Different regions of the world have fluctuating economic fortunes- this type of thing has been going on for thousands of years.
@@yorkshiremgtow1773 exacally, a failed system, aka market capitalism
@@Bessskar So, if another country adopts Capitalism and the living-standards increase significantly (as in the case of Estonia), does it mean it's a failed system?
@@yorkshiremgtow1773 obviously in your case no, but in the case of doormant houses in stoke, yes... boom or bust cycle is what market capitalism is. it requires 'infinite growth' in an finite planet...
and as for communism, that is prescribed poverty and work enslavement of the masses
@@Bessskar But Capitalism doesn't require infinite growth; this is a common misconception. If you have a business, and are happy with the turnover you make, why do you 'need' to expand?
this must be what my SimCity is like when I fail
Harry Wood ijr
Harry Wood *ikr your right on that one
Perfect lol
Lol
😂😂😂😂
My parents: a house is the most expensive thing you’ll ever need to buy.
Me:you sure about that?
"awful, awful, bad conditions, rats, bad, bad" mate, this looks literally like my house in Liverpool which I pay £600 a month for - shouts out Wavertree.
I lived in richardson street yes i no about 1 pound houses committy split
@@stevensmith-xz7pj I worked on a pound house on that road, emptied it an filled about 3 skips. Last time I was there we were doing the last bits to help a family move in which was nice.
Tbf there's loads of work being done on the pound houses round there
Al Viktorovich Liverpool gang !
Ikr its not that bad i might buy one
Saying it's not that bad 🤣 yeah I live in the town over I have friends in these streets and it's wayy worse now and full of crime houses burned out old people home invaded muggings police helicopter out all the time and the houses are falling apart full of damp fucked electrics copper pipes stripped out probably asbestos to 😒
Why not remove a wall to make a 2 bedroom a very roomy 1 bedroom. Surely that would work for some of these homes and certainly be nicer than the current tiny rooms AND drop them down into a more affordable range. It wouldn't take much money to do it...in fact they could hire out of work people to do it. It's ridiculous that 11,000 people go without while these homes are left to moulder.
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i think it would be a good idea to try and entice a big factory or nuclear power plant etc usually you would not want something like that in or near your town but it can only be this dead because of joblessness , if that landlord was renting all those properties to people who were entitled to housing benefit then the area has not got enough well paying good hours jobs and a huge factory or power plant could provide those so people could afford to buy these houses real cheap and do em up
Thais is such a great idea so many people out off work get unemployed to do the work and give houses to people who suffer homeless
It’s not that easy to just “remove a wall” you clown
How bad is it? "Resident's have moved to Peterlee" bad
hahaha class comment
i want to like this so bad but it’s on 69 likes and i don’t want to ruin it
A Human Seme
@@em-kc7iq I just ruined it so go ahead and like it. In tears here
Peterlee is a real cack hole with zero character. Horden used to be great, such a shame to see it like this.
Lower the rent and put people in who are desperate for a home it's better to get a low rent than nothing
Councils etc don't think like that - they are greedy and want more money so that they can give themselves pay rises while cutting public services!
@@rhyfelwrDuw it was actually run by an association but because of the bedroom tax they didn’t think they could get enough renters in the units.
landlording comes with obligations, you can't lower the rent below cost of the obligations. Best to just sell for £1 as they said then the people living their don't have to pay rent (except council tax, water standing charge, and baseline heating).
Yes move people with no money to a place with no jobs that will definitely not get them trapped in an awful povity cycle with no way out
The area needs job investment not just body’s in buildings
@@randomcallum job investment gives people something to do. That's not the source of occupancy. You need a pub first because people need water more than anything else, then a farm shop because the people there need food second of all, although the farm shop could give free drinking water by the glass, then someone can build a gastropub nearby with this "locally sourced food" concept so wealthy travellers will bring demand for the service sector at a different level of monetary value and start making people disproportionately wealthy given the work, that will attract workers and expand the services offered near the pub.
Why not give the houses to the poor people
Jo I far to many poor and you cannot give the whole of the pauper north east can you? Get real!
But they'll need money anyway to just keep them in good shape along the years.
There are no jobs there & the houses need a lot of work
jrgboy but the people will open jobs then it will grow...
Places start from nothing to a lot you know.
If someone opened some shops more would come and they would open companies.
There are no jobs. They won't be able to maintain them.
This is heartbreaking. I used to live in Hartlepool and worked as a photographer for The Hartlepool Mail. I often worked in Horden, photographing Playgroups and Mother and toddler groups. These are decent hard working people, these homes should be made good and affordable for the residents of Horden . Many of whom will be the children l photographed, now grown up, and remember with affection. ❤️
EH? HARTLEPOOL.I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE SAYING THAT.I WENT THERE IN 1954 WITH MY GREAT GRANDAD AND I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.THE ONLY REASON THAT I DIDN'T MOVE THERE IS BECAUSE I LIVED SOMEWHERE ELSE.I'D MOVE THERE NOW IF I COULD BUT THE HOUSE PRICES ARE TOO EXPENSIVE.I SPOKE TO ONE BLOKE,HE WANTED FIFTY POUNDS!!!
It is heartbreaking. A great community, utterly destroyed, repeatedly, by government powers. Its disgusting. The miner statue with his heart ripped out is so very apt, it makes me cry.
Sounds amazing, £1 and I never have to suffer any human interaction again
The cost of peace and quiet is low
Not until you hear someone's footsteps in the middle of night
Simon
Not until you catch the Plague...
@@cocoduck7745 It's OK, my land my laws. Trespassers will be prosecuted haha
I'd buy the whole street amd knock all the houses into one. Long mansion for me
Durham council is stupid the Housing Association offered to sell to the council the blocks of empty houses for £1 for the whole lot and they say no, when there are people on their housing waiting list desperately in need of housing. It's so wrong.
+DIONNE FRANCIS-BROWN it is wrong but the tenants & housing association has run them into the ground if the council bought them they would be responsible for repairs & up-keep ,Most councils are selling of there stock to associations & private landlords.
DIONNE FRANCIS-BROWN if those ugly looking house's were only half a penny, Those Nortern peasants still could not afford it.
Me? I live in the south, hot summers, less rain, very clean [ no litter ] and lots and lots of work. "LOADS OF MONEY".😎
DIONNE FRANCIS-BROWN is it labour or tory run council.
@@robertcase60 Good for you, snob.
@@zeynepcalim2919 Ah. You wound me deeply 🙄😂
Firstly. Who runs the council? I would start with a good street clean
Why was a human who fought for us, risked their life in the army. Why were they left homeless instead of people who do nothing with their lives. It's just sad😔
They are stupid people thats why
Fought for us?? Lol
Amen
Who says he was risking his life, the majority of the military are glorified civilians.
Heres the real question why didn't that sucker save some money up while he was wasn't paying rent and getting free food in the army? Makes me laugh people talking about this man in the army like he's owed a free house and the rest of the country has to pay for it? He should learn to manage his money and not come out with nothing, It's especially lol given he wouldn't even have to pay rent, food etc which takes a chunk out of any low wage persons wallet.
@@Ghost572 the food in the British army is paid from the salary (not free)
Bedroom tax . Next it's gonna be living room tax
Sahad Qasim fucking garden tax
Sahad Qasim
*Thank you for the idea. Theresa May has noted your request. Although we aren't promising anything...Mises May says one thing and does another*
Vladimir Eng MAKE JUNE THE END OF MAY. Oh shit...she won
Sahad Qasim toaster tax, chair tax. You know what, life tax. I need all your money
Lmfao
I feel society has failed when you see this and hear the landlord say, "No one can afford to rent these houses."
ESTATE AGENTS HAVE A FREE ROLE TO EXPLOIT THE POOR
I'd just buy all of the houses for a couple hundred quid, either demolish them and rebuild on the land, as there is already infrastructure, or do the current houses up. You'd basically be buying land with inbuilt roads, clean water, electricity and sewage system. Sell all of the houses, it would be a lovely new town that had land that cost nothing.
You can't sell housing if there are no jobs in the area. That's why it's abandoned.
And are you going to start up a business there? This is a free market economy, you need businesses to supply jobs in order to supply income, so they can afford a house in the first place. You cant even open up a shop or a bar if there are no productive jobs around in the first place as no one has any money to spend.
Homes under the hammer.
you just need decent internet and entice those that work from home. could be a lovely quiet retreat. i'd be interested
CANCEL THE BEDROOM TAX it's the only answer
Amy Israel Railslavegames put minimum wage up
@Geneva Mode So basically unregulated sweatshops should get taxed less?
No bed room no tax.
Tax religion
"just waiting for a ball of hair to roll down the street."
I think that's called a tumbleweed..
Tori W she said hay
That would honestly be too posh for us. 😅 we wouldn't be able to afford it.
lol she said hay
I'm guessing a lot of people who don't live where they grow naturally won't know that they are their own plant, not just balled-up dried wheat grass or hay or something.
looks like Detroit
oi!
Not even close to as bad as Detroit
Alan Boyd I'm from England. Could I get a bargain in Detroit?
dat one piff detroit is just as bad
@TiringBard93 - Detroit far worse than Chitown.
I say have people do community service on the houses
Maybe the bedroom tax should be regional, ie applied in London and other high demand areas but waived in places like this
Andrew F that’s a great idea. May be the abs on show though 🤷🏾♂️
I dont even know what bedroom tax is🤔
@@Tor128 If you are on benefits and are a single person, you get a percentage deducted from your benefit payments(20% or so I think per bedroom) if you rent a place with more than one bedroom. These houses won't be 1 bedroom places thus no one who is single on benefits can afford them.
There's also the issue that one-bedroom properties are not exactly common, most are 2bedroom and above.
@@veeeks2938 Why not get flatmates then or live with family?
@@veeeks2938 Then they can find a friend or a partner. These are not a council homes, the landlord is an agency. Also, all tenants could have the names on the lease, no need to sublet. When I couldn't afford rent for an entire apartment I lived with flatmates for 5 years.
Most people that live in London and other big cities do that, so there's no reason for people in this town that are on benefits not to be able to do the same.
Why has no one just brought the lot and done them all up? Could make nice small house for affordable prices or someone homeless or students anything really
Location. Location. Location.
Students?? What are they going to be studying and where?? 😂😂
Probably there is a lot of monthly and yearly upkeep on top of any renovation costs you want to do, so you need quite a bit of cash to make that work. Even if you could "buy the lot" for a quid its a big investment because of all those costs.
@@chuckmallett2942 Online since covid. Employment and education have moved online.
11 million empty houses in Europe, that's capitalism folks.
This is one of the many reasons we need an interventionist Labour government - not a Tory one that just sits back, shrugs its shoulders and says 'it's the will of the free market'.
@@ronnotwrong4936 " interventionist ".......that sounds a bit sinister.
@Davy Tornado - Being interventionist isn't scary. Not being interventionist is scary. It's one of the differences between left and right wing viewpoints. It's much easier to be a Tory government than a Labour one because the Tories don't do anything other than cut spending and privatize anything still state owned so the sales proceeds can be used to fund tax cuts for rich people. If you're not in the richest 1% vote Labour.
something like a land-value-tax could have helped. The problem is we're all trying to squeeze into a few large cities - if there was a bit of chronic economic pressure for people to seek other places then capitalists will take a chance in ghost towns and work hard to market the place. What happened is that an economic pressure was applied to this village instead (the bedroom tax in a homogenous estate is a harder pressure than it is in a diversely partitioned city so people naturally left the village for the city - exactly the opposite from what most people posting here seem to want).
Capitalism is the only way most people can be effective and happy, you just have to be humanist capitalists and make sure you set the tax landscape so capitalists naturally have the moral effects. This is because most people seek out opportunities to thrive - so you have to avoid fighting them or else you'll cost too much and hurt them and you don't want to hurt most people or else you're worse than capitalists. Herd Not Hurt.
No they created them and made jobs for the people so they could live in them.
My nan and grandad lived on Seymour Street , they passed away long ago,loved my childhood exploring the Dean, walking alongside the North sea, shame .. take care who is left XXX
The media keeps going on about a "housing shortage". This is the side that doesn't get reported. Empty homes, across the north of England and the south of Scotland. All former industrial areas. All full of empty properties. It's not houses the country is short of; it's money to buy these properties and repair them.
Well they're only a quid, I'm sure you could get some young people, tradesmen and the like, to do up their own houses in return for a low rent, lord knows I'd do it.
SteamboatWilley €
Funnily enough though, they always find money to buy the latest armaments and weapons.
A case of want a few new Tanks - sell off some NHS community hospital?
'It's like Beirut': the town where homes are on sale for £1.
This is Horden, County Durham. Once a thriving mining community. Now emptied of jobs, and increasingly of the people who gave it life and soul.
John Laws
looks like a good place to do parkour
+ThePARKOUR ZOMBIE exactly what I thought. shit.
I would like to buy whre should I contact? investing from outside uk
rosyrose19 contact me
VoiceOver: nobody knows what to do with so many empty homes...
The homeless: hold my beer 🍺
*hold my heroin
Rudy Carpenter lol
These small towns were mostly expanded for one reason. To house the coal miners. After Thatcher the coal mining collapsed.
The problem is the unemployment. Who wants to live somewhere without a job and income ?
Even if these houses doesn't have any value today. The real cost of a house is its maintenance. Homeless people don't have steady jobs. Who will pay for the unavoidable repairing costs of a house or the electricity and water? These houses will become slums.
The industrial revolution in Britain was based on the coal. The demand for coal was enormous and the coal industry employed millions of workers. That affected the social fabric and the rural areas of Britain. During 1970's the strikes of the coal industry and the severe electricity problems, made the coal unfavorable. In 80's the coal industry abruptly died. Local communities were depending on the coal industry for ages and numerous generations. The coal towns didn't die in a year neither in a decade. The old generation resisted but newer better educated generations of course want a better future somewhere else and the result is these ghost towns.
Exactly, the benefits don't help the poor there does not seem to be a safety net anymore.
Diane Huntley What benefits? They've cut them to the point that thousands of disabled people are dying every year because their benefits were taken away (can you walk five feet? clearly you're fit for work, despite the fact that your disability is severe epilepsy and doesn't affect mobility like that), do you think able-bodied poor people are getting anything at all to help them?
Jaldhrbebwn,sekajhuii BLYAT.
sorry i can’t like it’s on 69 likes
TZ ;D i didn’t ask u so er....
@Harveer Bhinder 69 is 69
purple alien gang v69 no one asked you either
Esther Eso it izz what it izz
This is what happens when the Tories attack the working class by closing industry and cutting benefits.
Rollyz "Lazy" people, so my friend who got abused all his life and then chucked out at 17 with no job prospects deserves to live in a mold infested house with no working shower in a God awful area. There are people taking advantage of the system but when cuts are made people who need genuine help get shitted on. Not all of us came from nice families who wanted us educated or even fed us properly you know.
Rollyz Disabled people are literally dying because their benefits were taken away, you're full of shit. Cutting benefits has not made people more likely to go out and find work.
Rollyz
*Jeremy Corbyn doesn't support Hezbollah, Hamas and other groups you listed. So why lie? The Torres made all those cuts taking money away from the weakest in society instead of the strongest and wealthiest in society. The Torres made all those budget cuts, etch and for what? The Torres said they would balance the book's but they haven't balanced shit. The Torres say one thing and do another. How many times has Theresa May lied and performed U turns? She said no election 7 times and then launched an election to win a majority...she lost!*
Rollyz think of it this way mate. Your not gonna get very far calling people your enemy are ya lol. what's wrong with laying a wreath on someone's grave? killing is wrong no matter the reason and celebrating someone's death is wrong no matter the reason. They all have families they are all human beings politics and religion is a crock of shit at the end of the day, it's about people. And to make progress you have to treat a situation as such
Rollyz I think you'll find almost around 40% of the uk population of this country voted to make that man prime minister a couple of days ago... so yeah
As UK we need to stop building up south and build the north and other area like this create jobs regenerate the area build infrastructure..transport jobs etc
@@Emma-ex8gx agreed
They. Look at redevelopment in Manchester and Boot estate in Liverpool
So true!
@@pyeltd.5457 Manchester and Liverpool aren't northern.
Kieran Dunn they are.
50,000 people used to live here,now it’s a ghost town
TrueWarr10r mate I used to live in County Durham in Newton Aycliffe and I thought that was a ghost town like but when I look at this I’m like no wonder why people moved to Peter Lee
@@tomstev2745 it was a joke mate
@@tomstev2745 haha I used to live in shildon
@@user-gk6mi7lv6q just realised the reference lol
What did Beirut do to her?
kotugirl Weerasekare Beirut looks a lot better than this lol
@kotugirl Weerasekare
Clearly you've not seen Beirut. The place rocks!
No where near like Beirut, Syria, Palestine and all the other middle Eastern countries they bombed!!
Beirut used to be amazing....
@@andreasyouakin2280 Beirut is amazing
There is far more to this than the bedroom tax. Unfortunately this area has been made uninhabitable for working folk that can actually pay the going rate of rent, as well as those on benefits that work hard to find work. The reason is the crime and violence in the area. You would not dare park a car on the streets shown in this video, because your car would not last. The houses themselves have nothing wrong with them, I am familiar with them and possibly some of those in the video. Under normal circumstances, the low rents for fairly decent housing would suit many young single working people, but they, like I, could not consider these houses due to the level of threat posed against you. This isn't the fault of the housing company, or benefit reforms, but it has been a problem for a couple of decades now, and it is the fault of the residents who consider crime, violence and terrorism either an occupation, or a hobby. These are the people that were raised in the area in the 80ies onwards. It is a massive shame that this has happened, but lets not blame the wrong organisations. This housing company has done a fabulous job at taking a risk and investing in some high risk properties to allow decent people a chance to live. It is the low lives that ruin it, and they are killing their own village.
Friend: you Brits need to go back to the Lord God like you did 100 years ago.
Is it strange that I think they just look like normal houses
Millie me too 😂
@Harveer Bhinder imaooo
Millie yes
Millie
It’s not strange it’s concerning
Are u okay in the head
ill give you a tenner give us the row
£10.01 to take it off this fella plus a high five.
god bless israel its 1 pound but it will cost thousands of pound to fix it inside .
god bless israel Israel knows all about robbing people's houses and land lol. you won't buy it...m
no ill live forever and bug cockroaches like your good self
and im not jewish
You know things are bad when Peterlee is considered an improvement and something to aspire to.
These houses should go to veterans with nowhere to go. They deserve it the most.
From what the gentleman says no one shows interest at the moment!! Things don’t get worse there is solutions .. many are on the street x army guys who are on the streets now!! Give them a chance to live again, a reason to be off the street .. many x army are living in temporary housing .. solutions are there it’s the council to work on it.. too expensive then rebuild or open it into a homeless units!!!
ITS TIME WE STOPPED GIVING TO CHARITY AND SORTED OUT OWN COUNTRY OUT
Why not DO BOTH?!!
They could make it into a film set town, old movies/series
Or the homeless
People can already simply film there.
I literally live 30 minutes away from this place and my area isn't the best but it's clean and nice, I can't believe that a 30 minute drive would completely flip that over.
They are ex colliery houses. Horden had at one time the largest Coal mine in England. Now the place is a Dump Like all the other villages around the area Blackhall Easington Wingate etc Pubs and shops youth clubs all closed down. Thank you Margaret Thatcher.
Well your hero socialist Tony Blair could have reversed all that.
Instead he just made himself a multi multi millionaire.
Arthur Scargill was living in a mansion in Sheffield while the miners were struggling - pardon the pun, but that guy was the pits!!
@@rhyfelwrDuw well, as the famous quote went........He started the strike with a large union and a small house and finished with a small union and a large house..
@@davytornado9772 that is so sad for the hard working miners who lost so much!
Well if you can buy one of these houses for a pound,then the peeps that moved out because of the bedroom tax can buy one for a quid and move back in and live rent free😊
Yeah, which means they're not really being sold for a quid, I'd spend £50 and buy 50 houses, I can't even afford to rent down south.
If they moved out because of the bedroom tax they wouldn't move back in later on by paying ￡1 to buy it because it would still be a council owned.
The councils at no stage since Right to buy came into effect forced people to move out so they could offload 100's or 1000's of properties to the Private sector. That's just not how Right to Buy was supposed to work.
Council said no as not want maintain them. Can any one get them so?? Could people move in and fix up etc
Bedroom tax? I in Dublin in a 2 bed small house with 2 teenage boys and 4 young kids and I pay 80 euro a week and can't afford it but not want b homeless
I live in Peterlee but every time I go down there I am always in shock of how much houses are left
knock the bedrooms through so there is one big bedroom.
Concreteowl genius 😂
"It's like Beirut" hahaha she's clearly not been to Beirut! Beirut is paradise compared to this town!
Derelict buildings and war torn Beirut in the 1980's is the reference being made.....
Typical Brit who is ignorant and not been anywhere in the world and thinks england the best ever, Beirut is a paradise
Beirut 1975 to 1992 you child geniuses.
Well nice fact is no matter how much times its been destroyed it stands back up. She used to have the first airport in the middle east, and it was called paris.
Ive been to beirut and the people are so nice there
Since the Pits closed people moved to find work elsewhere leaving these villages looking like ghost towns . There are quite a few of these villages in the North East thanks to Maggie Thatcher. From a Miners Daughter Northumberland.
Do you think the new Maggie lookalike Lizzie truss will sort it out .
I can live in this town without any hesitation.
Sonofa Seal wha'?
This is outrageous why doesn't the council by these, we are so desperate for social housing, can't they find a creative solution. Makes me sad I have lived in a basement studio flat that is dark and mouldy for years I would love to live in a whole house. Wow! I would relocate to inhabit such a wonderful space.
How is this even possible?
It's a half hour drive to Newcastle, less to Sunderland, and the homes are empty?
Seen them online going for £25k.
Horden to Sunderland, is the same distance as me going from my home to Glasgow.
Surely there must be jobs there???
I do that distance 5 times a week.
Wish houses here were going for £25k, you would be lucky to get £125k and the new developments are going three times even that.
Just how??????
I'd be tempted if it wasn't for having a kid and being petrified of your school system down there, nvm uni fee's later on.
£25k houses, i can only dream.
You'd need good security.
This happened in Stoke on Trent , the houses were sold for a £1 but there were regulations on how the renovations were done , for how much money and a time restraint on finishing the work to make the homes of a good standard ! These houses were also not to be put up for sale for a certain amount of years !! It’s not as simple as it seems ! But why a local council would not buy them and rent them out is astounding !!!
Did you not listen? The Council said they couldn't afford all the necessary repairs to all the houses which is why they refused to take them.
give me one I will live there
For those non Brits who don't know what bedroom tax is: We have a significant proportion of our country unemployed, these people get their rent paid by the government. Bedroom tax says if you live in a house with more bedrooms than occupants, then they'll only pay for, eg, 75% of the rent. The reason it's a ghost town isn't because of bedroom tax, it's because they were relying on the jobless to pay for the economy.
Just like Detroit. I know a homeowner there who just walked off and left his fully paid for house with the key in the door. As far as this situation can't thr people on benefits have roommates Do they have to have individual homes?
AvalonDreaming what!!! 😰 that’s crazy
The Thatcher legacy - and does the government care a toss - draw your own conclusion - "that woman" as the late Eric Heiffer MP once said - cannot be held to account after her death but for me she always will be - the scars will live indefinteley in our broken society
It will affect us as long as we live, like the first would war 1914 to 1918 and the Jarrod marches in the 1930,s generations only just gone a few years ago because they are new dead, the working classes get shafted all the time, like the minors in 1984
sean sands The Miners “shafted” themselves when they didn’t have a Ballot.
And there's her saying there's no such thing as society. Yes love, thanks for ruining ours
Tony Griffin I thought Thatcher was alright she done the right things of getting rid of mines because my cousin soon as he left school went down the pit at age 15 in the 80s and I told him it was stupid and they’ll close soon but he just ignored me and 2 years later when he broke his hand while using a drilling machine the mines closed
You are spot on Tony we are still in a ripple effect of thatchers nasty government sell off housing put the cash in your pockets tory bastards.
I have £50 in my pocket
Deal?
Declares the Independent Republic of Horden...
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You can buy 50 because they sell them a £1
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In my 71 years, I've never come across a local Council that was up to its job. They're the curse of our nation, but have unlimited yet undeserved power. Grrrr.....
Well said and experience of life has gave you the right to give that opinion Wendy, I see the very same and I'm 20 years behind you.
welcome to thatchers Britain 30 years down the road this the reality
I'm in Australia and I could have written your comment myself.
This town sprang up out of a booming, local-mine driven economy. The problem is that the mines have all run out and no one was _prepared_ for that.
Now mining can be a useful industry, but it's only _one_ industry. If it's an industry that is no longer producing, it's time to start finding ways for _others_ to function in this area. It's a classic case of too many eggs is one basket. If you want people to start moving _into_ those homes, you will have to find a way for them to start bringing _money_ and _goods_ into those homes as _well._ Bring in some more "baskets," by which I mean "industries," and the more, the better. A _diversified_ economy is an _adaptable_ economy.
'Nobody knows what to do with so many empty homes'
This statement should only be applicable to a country with a homelessness rate of 0.
These houses could be sold to a Housing Association set up to allow a 50% tenant ownership ……the Council could give this project a ten year Council Tax rate of 30% and ask Firms who set up shop within a three mile radius , their Business Rates will be 30% for ten years in order to help with regeneration and local employment.
Perhaps the real reason the Council do not care is that Councillors will not benefit directly .
The Government could put this town to so many good uses. What is wrong with our Government? Are they all going out for long walks because they "have nothing to do"?
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Our government don't give a shit unless it affects them.
flowersandchains Tat's right turn into a landfill site. Then, Those peasants will have something to eat and most of all STEAL!🤢
Gareth Wilkin I'm not in the government. Give them nothing, nothing at all Including state benefits dental and hospital care,
Above all HOPE.
Not too far from the truth as a lot of the redundant miners would walk dogs in the nearby woods and beach. The mine was closed in the mid 1980s and as such the whole community was badly let down and suffered accordingly. Durham County Council would not have the monetary resources to refurbish these properties. I grew up here and left in 1965 to join the Air Force and I am so sad to see what has happened to these houses and had relatives living in many of them. However, they only form part of the village and today. these streets are surrounded by good housing. I do not have the words to properly describe what a thriving, hard working and mostly friendly place Horden was when the Pit was working. Lots of smoke and coal dust in the air but the houses were kept clean and tidy. The coal was mined under the North Sea and I believe went as far as 5 miles under the Ocean. We were taught at school that there were enough coal reserves to last for at least a further hundred years. The Pit Spoil was dumped by ariel flight into the sea which turned the beach into a black quagmire. The National Trust and Durham Coast Heritage Project is gradually reclaiming it but it will take years to get back to its natural state. I live in Southern England now but I will never disdain the people and I am proud of the area I come from. I worked hard all my life and I was just following the ethic set by my Grandfathers, Father and Uncles who were all miners. They suffered injuries and had good and bad time and were more than well supported by their womenfolk I hope and pray that things will get better for the young people there who are not fortunate as I have been. I do not claim to know what the answer is. When I served in the Low Countries and Germany the Governments there have had the foresight to place their coal mines in mothballs in case they are needed in the future. Our mines were just abandoned.
It's a shame, but these old mining towns all over the country are either forced to become charity shop havens, or die.
There's an old mining town near me; most of the shops on its high street are closed, and the only surviving ones are phone shops, charity shops, takeaways, boozers and the odd computer shop. A few supermarkets are dotted around the outskirts, but besides that the town is a mere shadow of its former self.
People that think simply giving the houses to the homeless are just too shortsighted, it's going to costs billions for maintenance and bills for the property. Will you fit the bill with your taxes?
This is why I would not invest too heavily in housing. You never know when this could happen. I once lived in a nice wealthy area, big Victorian houses. A few were bought by the council, turned into flats and let to scum bags and then there was a slow exodus and those left were then stuck there unable to move out
the bedroom tax is the mist ridiculous thing i've ever heard of.
Yes it is and for a few reasons, one of them is Councils or housings don't have 1 bedroom properties for everyone to swap over into, so you are penalised purely for the position you are in with no way out.
The council will not pay full rent if you are not in one of their houses. The remaining part of the rent has to be paid by the renter. If you are on benefits this is not affordable. Vicious circle.
Make it 50p and you've got a deal
Would be good to see a follow up report linked to this.
Proud to live in this area...shame on the council for spending money on other things.
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were is the green space?
+Johns Corey Agreed. Build cover to cover like that, with no room for some flowers or a garden, let alone a fruit tree. Then they wonder why they won't sell
I'm glad i'm not the only one who noticed they left no space for plants.
That's what I was thinking. It's all concrete slabs. I hope those houses have back gardens at least
You guys don't understand, they were built for miners and were owned by the local mineowners and factory owners so that their employees could have cheap housing close to the mines and factories. They were not built to look attractive they were built 100 years or more ago to house workers and that was the sole purpose.
They soon pulled all the Coal Mines down they could not wait to demolish the lot. Horden Blackhall Wingate Easingto Etc it sadly is a Dump No community spirit and the comradeship has gone.
Johns Corey look out of your window dipstick, it' a lawn. Ok knobhead?
The bedroom tax is the stupidest thing I've ever Herd of ,crazy .
This scheme didn't work for anymore wondering, 8 years later those streets are still a joke...
Turn that town into a free town for the homeless
1) gets homeless people of the street.
2) gives homeless people a shelter.
3) they can learn to develop themselves.
Put a high concentration of vulnerable people with mental health issues, substance abuse and addiction in one area.........Yeah see how that goes down.
Kromzey l live in London and at night especially the main line Stations you can see a large percentage of the
Homeless and believe me they are drug uses or alcoholics who will never go to work if a job was offered to them , they are what they are
Oxygen thieves . I witness it on a regular basis. The problem will never be solved. There are workers and shirkers everywhere, l am and have always been a worker.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴. I think maybe 20 percent at most are the real needy.
Looks right run down dump
Effectively already been done mate. Prisons get dibs on Houses in Easington and Horden.
@@patrickhockton1190 Stop telling the truth
The same company has refused to fix my aunts flat that has had no hot water or heating since the beginning of December 2019. She has two kids(4 and 2)
I'm homeless soon with 2 teenagers !!! Council only give you a place after 5-7 years ship you off far away to no mans land. Not that I've ever lived in a council flat. I'm on here trying to find a way to security, so I'm scrolling through all these sites for tips and tricks on buying cheapest places. And building up from there.. I'm not so young but I can't give up hope.
£1 a house I'll have 200 please I promise not to grow cannabiss in all of them .... Just like 30 of them
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Grow Opium poppies, you'll make more money.
Vladimir Eng no the big monies in hemp.
Vladimir Eng They can't afford the seeds!
Paintball war?
NORTHWEST BUSHCRAFT This video is a lie. Sorry to disappoint you. They cost £75k average
Grew up in horden, down cotsford park, in the 70's was a canny place to live.
I would live there. so cheap! and a great quality home despite being boarded up. count me in!
If Durham Council bought these houses for a quid and gave them to people that are low income, i bet they would be fixed up and probably more nice then any developer could do, just might take a little longer for them to get there is all. You cannot imagine how resourceful people who have a low income are. Instead of leaving them empty, give them to those who need them and let them make a go of it.
Totally agree. I was a single parent with two young children, it's amazing what you can do with determination, spit and glue. Where there's a will there's a way and poundshops are amazing. 🧹🗑️🔨
They should give them away for free to people who can’t afford houses
🙋🏾♀️. I’ ll take it
Tamx Gold me too. I could do with a place now.
Government to blame.
Hollywood haunts actually, the ones to blame are the liebore party, as they are the party that closed down the most pits in that area
why don't we all get together and buy this place and do a mass clear up and renovation project then open them up for the destitute and homeless rent free but residents will have to pay basic bills etc.any ideas?
Let people pay their way in life look after them but not free handouts
People getting free housing from the council nowadays are far too fussy. They demand to live in state of the art homes in nice postcodes at no cost. Councils need to start housing them in areas like this, then maybe our taxes would go towards saving the NHS instead!
i want to buy 6 houses then.
1 for sleep
1 for eat
1 to watch television
1 to cook
1 to use the bathroom
1 to read have a party
1 to do my homework
1 to study
opsss i mean 8 houses
This town, is coming like a ghost town.
50000 people used to live here... Now it's a ghost town
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Stuff like this has started happening in my town too. There's been a house in the middle of a pretty empty street that the council have been considering rebuilding but they just got bored halfway through and left it with half of the building knocked down. Its been like that for years and it ruins the entire street more so than the borded up houses. It's disgusting. 😤
which street is it
What area u feom
Nice place to set up a trap house 🧪💉