Everything you need to know about council housing with George Clarke

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ค. 2019
  • TV personality and national treasure George Clarke on the necessity of affordable, quality housing.
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  • @fionagregory8078
    @fionagregory8078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    George Clarke is my ideal man.

  • @impsimp
    @impsimp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m trying to wrap my mind around what council housing is I keep seeing in on shows and what not. For Americans we don’t have anything equivalent to this, you either rent or own.

  • @westsidertwo
    @westsidertwo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Im english, worked all my life and im on band e thats no housing needs so i have no chance at all at ever getting a council house

    • @thornbird6768
      @thornbird6768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too !! Been on the waiting list 5 years , I look , I bid but no chance , I’ve never been higher than bidder 50 and then gradually pushed back as more people bid !! I only need a 1 bedroom place ! So I’m in expensive private rent that takes almost half my wages !! There’s something gone very wrong in this country 😡

    • @cloud6862
      @cloud6862 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats disgraceful and councils should step up and stop giving away properties to people who just arrive in the country .....many properties dereclit they need to see to them and get people in them and stop their excuses) Do the councils even '\'own'' the ;and they rent out or did they make ''claim'' to them many years ago)

  • @problematicprincess6270
    @problematicprincess6270 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    one my ex bullies was a rich girl she lived in the fancy part of town, had a big house with well off alcoholics for parents. Her aunt was even my teacher in school. when I moved out I got a council one bedroom home it was nice and I take care of it. I put a lot of money and time into making it a home and she got a 3 bedroom home for herself and her baby with a ton of room 🙄 she asked me if mine was private or not so I answered her I couldn't really understand at the time why it mattered but than I figured out people look down on you for it :(

    • @AM-dn1iq
      @AM-dn1iq ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Who cares this life is just a test the harder it is the bigger the qualification

  • @suepowell1979
    @suepowell1979 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My Nan lived
    In council housing I loved it there

  • @arvinpareftsid2039
    @arvinpareftsid2039 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Misleading title. I learned nothing from this. This was promotional and political but certainly not educational

  • @cloud6862
    @cloud6862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Think its about time snobby people got off their horses and stopped slagging off anyone living in council housing) its detrimental and wrong- some of the nicest most decent people on earth live in council properties and housing association properties so why are they constantly been tagged (If something happens ohh they must be from a council estate?) some of the ''private gated communities'' that people are paying ridiculous morrgages and rent for have the biggest crime) and some people living way beyond their means in mansions they cant afford behave terrible) having money or property does not ''automatically'' make for a upper class/middle class breed of ''goodliness people'' far from it - so stop putting down people on where they live.
    Look at madeline mcacn's parents - they live in big fancy house - they left 3 children in a apartment while they wined and dined alone 2 babies and a toddler ) there needs to be a shake up and a wake up on defining people by what and where they live) some people ''want'' to live in the outdoors, some people ''want'' to live in a council property they grew up in) no matter how much money they have or not) stop labelling!

    • @problematicprincess6270
      @problematicprincess6270 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah I agree with that one my ex bullies was a rich girl she lived in the fancy part of town, had a big house with well off alcoholics for parents. Her aunt was even my teacher when I moved out I got a council one bedroom home it was nice and I take care of it. I put a lot of money and time into making it a home and she got a 3 bedroom home for herself partner and baby with a ton of room 🙄 she asked me if mine was private or not so I answered her I couldn't really understand at the time why it mattered but than I figured out people look down on you for it :(

    • @demelza32
      @demelza32 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you are lucky enough to get a council house!!! The council have some very dubious check lists to get on it in the first place, the system is rigged. I know of people that had houses handed to them decades ago, not now.

  • @sylviastewart7832
    @sylviastewart7832 ปีที่แล้ว

    And do dinner
    January dear

  • @aimeethomson7806
    @aimeethomson7806 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ...want the lifestyle in a dr zhivargo type economic flavour...

  • @stevenlloyd9923
    @stevenlloyd9923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live in a bed sit with 3 children and yet the council have kept me in this position for nearly a year now discusting

    • @fionagregory8078
      @fionagregory8078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Disgusting. You could at least learn to spell.

    • @problematicprincess6270
      @problematicprincess6270 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fionagregory8078 dude wtf get off your high horse and have some respect for others.

  • @natashachiware4882
    @natashachiware4882 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dear god, I am in a council property for 5 years and I am not happy with my house and I want to move but Waltham Forest council is not helping me move. Lord please get me help to move home so I can find the right home. In the name of Jesus amen

  • @mypointofview1111
    @mypointofview1111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Right to buy was and is a great policy, I personally benefited from it. However Thatcher deliberately created this mess as councils were not allowed to use the proceeds from that scheme to build more council homes which is why we have the scandal of a housing shortage today. That clause was deliberately inserted to shut the possibility of future home ownership for ordinary people. What's worse is subsequent governments have continued to show preference for private investors rather than local governments to build social housing. Every government minister of whatever political persuasion has been guilty of this mindset, it shows what a lot of greedy, heartless creatures they really are and is a shameful way to treat people. That is truly disgusting

  • @husher5142
    @husher5142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I keep saying this, but if gov wants to bring costs down they need to develop and sell at cost and keep doing it over and over until it's enough.

  • @3DSgeek
    @3DSgeek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    first end mass migration, that is step one of ending the housing crisis.

    • @izdatsumcp
      @izdatsumcp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Perhaps we should control the amount of children people have too.

    • @RoBeRtJones1994
      @RoBeRtJones1994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@izdatsumcp not at all. We just shouldn't pay for peoples repeated mistakes.

    • @izdatsumcp
      @izdatsumcp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RoBeRtJones1994 Pay for other people's repeated mistakes? Sorry, I'm not following you.

  • @moltitrader
    @moltitrader 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    BORRIS JOHNSON ruined Renting scheme by introducing (affordable rent) which is double the price of social rent. How do you manage to call something twice the price affordable. I call it (BORRIS RENT) so people relate better to it.
    I rent a housing association 1 bed for £220 at newly created (affordable rent) a month but previous tenants paid £110 at (social rent). BORRIS doubled the price literally. BORRIS is after all the land lord class, what does he know about working class.

    • @ShotStoppers
      @ShotStoppers ปีที่แล้ว

      you pay £220 wow I wish I had it so easy