Britain's Housing Crisis: Peterborough - BBC Newsnight
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- We travel to Peterborough in the East of England to investigate the cost of emergency accommodation - the place where people who can’t get social housing end up.
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Why do governments rent emergency accommodation when it's more expensive than social housing? It seems to make no sense, like hiring a car every day instead of buying one.
Because parties are only elected for a few years and don’t want to blow their budget on something that takes 10,15 years to see the reward. It also won’t be credited to them.
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@@asherhector7405 how interesting. 🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🙄🙄
The dream of getting a mortgage and becoming a homeowner is getting beyond many ordinary working people due to job insecurity and being unable to raise a deposit due to high rents.
Claudio Dio
You can't scream Brexit yet. There are so many factors to consider. This problem has been twenty years in the making. Goverments of all colors have allowed house and rent prices to run riot. Whilst wages have stagnated during this time giving a false perception of wealth for house owners.
Being a home owner is completely overrated.
Sounds familiar. The same happening in the US.
Housing to regenerate a town and city.
@Toyin Olivia Jibowu A housing stock linked to the population as a number of people to house in town or city.
People on the thread are saying immigration isn't to blame, but with an extra 8.5 million people coming as immigrants during the past 15 years, there must be an impact on housing and rent levels, anyone denying this is just wrong.
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You do realize that a huge portion of imigrants work part time temp jobs and are not even entitled to social benefits?
My gf knows a couple in London, he is British and his wife is Lithuania. Both of them work full time and he also received a social housing.
Most of the immigrants from the EU are not receiving this type of subsidized housing no?
@freebeerfordworkers well apparently some do.
@@akastenas it is irrelevant as to what an immigrant recieves or if they work.
With 18 million more people in the country, it means we need more housing to accomodate more people (also more schools, nurses doctors etc.), and if there is a housing shortage, then house prices go up.
If house prices go up, then so does rent. It is simple supply and demand economics.
In America today if you own your home and have five dollars in your pocket you are richer than 82% of your fellow citizens. It's like this here too.
The US is at 33 people per square kilometer, the UK is at 285.
Therefore: If you wanna debate, keep those idiots from our former colonies out. There is a reason we kicked them out of Europe.
its the aggressive capitalist system to blame.
@@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 Lmao seems like someone's mad for losing the war😂
@@canaldofred2366 Why are you idiot adressing me? I've never lost a war and you have never won one.
@@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 forgot about 1776? Sometimes I wish America hadn't enter ww2 and just left britain to die.
Dividing houses into partitions where a landlord collects rent on each partition of a house, just so the landlord collects more money, should be illegal.
Put a limit on housing "benefit" paid to private landlords and you will see how things change.
maybe just cap all private rents, quite like the idea of linking with local wages
Housing Benefit is already capped due to the Local Housing Allowance
I remember when Peterborough had a surplus of housing. In the 80s we bought a house there for less than £11,000 and we sold it later for less than £11,000.
There's is no housing crisis: there is a population crisis, which is fuelling a shortage of housing for the indiginous population.
When the crew got their tickets from King's Cross to Peterborough (aka the North) did they not think, my god this train must be the fastest train in the world as it only takes 50 minutes!
Has Britain ever had a competent government?
history shows ... no
You could argue the Churchill headed war coalition govt 1940-45. Not perfect system, but they got the job done in the end.! Also through bevan/gaitskill tried to reform society and end the domination of capitalist driven corps and make society fairer and more equitable with housing nhs jobs, pensions, etc etc.
Four children ! And she throws herself at the benefits system. What about personal responsibility ?
They're all spongers, including her. The fact she has all the parental and fertility rights makes her responsible too.
Yeah I agree not her fault...she had 4 children and now expects tax payer to fund her housing etc.....
"We travel to Peterborough in the North East of England" Stellar grasp of geography there.
Two-Wheeled Tokyo lol 😂 so true
Matt Lennon pmsl 😆. Love the north east was at uni in Newcastle great place great people .
Anywhere North of Watford Gap is 'North' and anyone who lives there is Welsh!
I come form Peterborough and when I heated this I forgot where I lived 😂
While I'm not a UK citizen, I think the government needs to muster up the ambition and will to build affordable housing for the masses. The laissez faire way of handling housing issues and leaving it up to market forces is just irresponsible governance.
Well said! 👏👏👏👏👏
Thick government, thick policies
Conserative policy for a housing in Britain with goverment.
Wonder why so many council properties are being allowed to be empty all week and used as holiday homes etc
This policy of taking from Tax payers to give to Mega-Landlords while hating on Normal people & Immigrants is Tory policy. Turn people against each other while you fleece them
I live in Peterborough, Canada, population 100,000. Exact same thing going on here. My application for a crummy 1 bedroom apartment was refused on the spot because I didn't make at least $40,000(50k USD)/YR.
My heart goes out to you 💔. The state of housing in the country is a disgrace. Having kids and living through this, I can only imagine. Stay strong 💪.
The government knows EXACTLY what it's doing with housing whilst making a really good job of looking like they don't.
Started with Thatcher & has been getting rapidly worse with every policy since.
Back to Rachmanism!
Thatcher DID NOT open the border!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's just legal to tell everyone to up and leave when they're paying rent as promised? Jeezum...
Of course it’s legal, there is a contract for the provision of a service and both parties can terminate it. Why should a landlord be obligated to rent to a certain household?
Tories for you :)
The video was made in 2018. No fault evictions got made illegal in 2019.
And GB keeps importing migrants? I so do not get governments allowing migration when they cannot take care of their own people.
Government.maths
x homes minus y new people =same number of homes at same price
Storage heaters are absolutely shit expensive for the Tenant . Far easier and more economical for the Tenant and landlord to install a good quality boiler and central heating system .
yes but that would mean using some of the 1 million pounds per year the landlords are getting from the council for leasing the properties, by the way tax payers money. They had a 2 year contract with an option, just waiting to hear if council going to take 3rd year to. Landlords brought the street of 74 properties 2 years ago for 8.1 million would have made more sense for the coumcil to have brought the street!!
Michael Mckenna sounds to me like some corrupt Twat at the council and the landlord gonna get very wealthy
I had no idea that this was going on. Kudos to BBC newsnight for this report. It's terrible that there are people milking an already unjust system. Shame on them!
A M Why? It is their property and they can charge what ever they like. If the renters don't like it them they should move. If they can't move then that is not the landlords problem is it. Harsh but true. This is a free country after all.
So you think it's ok for a company to buy the street of properties and send out eviction notices to 72 households and the only reason is for more money to be had! Tax payers money paying now not hard working tax payers who once for the majority lived on the street. Stef & Phillips/Magic Homes Group are looking for other areas to do this again but will evict one at a time then so as not to cause another outcry! So you think to evict households just to make extra money leasing to councils is ok do you? Where the hell do you think these households go? You aware some of the original people/tenants are now being housed in council houses! That private landlords now know they can make more money leasing to councils to house the homeless probably evicting tenants to do so! See where I'm going with this? It's feeding into the homeless issue! Along with other issues benefit cuts, zero hours adding to the already ever increasing numbers
Same happens with NHS, companies rent them emergency beds and doctors at exorbitant prices because they're unable to invest longterm themselves with the useless government policies.
@@ABanRocks nice to hear the sociopaths point of view. Landlord too, I would imagine. 🤣🙄😏
@@whatshisname3304 Aim is to make money and not to be a charity just because someone has a sad story.
Why 4 kids? Were you rich? Is one kid not enough, two not enough? Every couple has a right to have a kid but as parents you have a obligation to look after them if you have one and even more obligation if you have multiple kids. The government should not have to provide you accommodation especially when you need a larger place because you have 4 kids.
The problem is the private landlords exploiting a government policy.
The problem is the government policy.... why would u expect landlords NOT to take money when the council drives dump trucks of it up to their door.
The dinner lady belongs in.a bedsit that she can afford..it's the council taking other people's money to give her more that runs the price up for everyone else, who then wants the council to.spend money on THEM.
Why does the first woman have four kids? Having children is the single most expensive financial committment you make in your life. It's comparable to a mortgage. This woman might as well have four mortgages. If you can't provide for a child you shouldn't have one. Plan ahead, it's your responsibility as a parent. Also...why does second woman think it's fine to simply declare that she does not have any savings like it's someone else's responsibility to prepare her for an uncertain future? But yeah, it's all only the government's fault here. Nobody else to blame.
If you build more roads and houses, the more people will use and need them. The logic that people need houses so " build lots more" is flawed because it leads to more people wanting more houses as a result. you are just creating vast amounts of infrastructure. Get a handle on the population problem. ( immigration quantity is a huge factor.)
How can a mother of FOUR children complain that the house is too small or cold when the government is paying 3/4 of the rent? Here is some food for thought, maybe only have one or two children and be in a position to offer them a nice, comfortable lifestyle rather than having four kids and only just getting by.
and it encourages others to have kids they cant afford while the taxpayers who want to get ahead have to limit their number of kids because the government is taking so much of their wages.
No sign of the kids father either
Where the 4 kids father? She has enough for botox anyway....always single mothers with the poor mouth looking for handouts...
Hard hitting evidence. Lady made a curutual point social housing should not be a profit market. Landlords are profiting from the Poor & working class and the government and councils across the UK should be working together to resolve this matter. Why are we not fighting and marching to make more awareness. This makes me sad and angry.
Wait?...what?...did they just figure this out. It's been going on 5y+. Communities are dead.
So my thoughts on it aren't to just build council estates, because council estates create a lot of crime and other problems for generations. Instead you build affordable housing, lots of it. Whether it's to rent or to buy you out controlled pricing on a lot of new homes, whether privately built or government built. Operating at a small profit. This should deflate the market and allow both interested buyers and renters to afford homes in other areas and the government to buy individual council houses, rather than whole estates of council homes.
If she is so poor then why did she make four children?
1 - build more houses
2 - rethink what affordable means - not 80% of the market value, but 30-50%
2 - then, 90% of all houses should be affordable (because 90% of the population cant afford houses of the market value)
3 - put a cap on renting. You, instead, subsidise rents (from taxpayers money) that go to rich landlords
4 - stop property speculations (e.g. someone can legally buy a house and resell it with a profit with no time restricted period). a house should be a home, not a commodity
5- build social housing
6 - dont allow UK properties to be sold to foreign investors
7 - ban leashold apartments or build flats with at least 900 years lease
8 - people and the government allowed councils to charge a tax (today known as the council tax) on occupied properties - this makes housing even more expensive. reduce the tax by 90%
Dusan Veselka 9. Stop mass immigration.
10. Pop the housing bubble. 11. End Quantitative Easing/Printing of money.
Dusan Veselka you need to get elected to House of Commons. Clear, concise and to the point!
the man with the green cortina 😂
1.spot on! Best way to lower prices is increase supply and lower demand.
2. Not sure I understand this one.
3. Has been tried all over the world and just leads to a bigger shortage. Look up NYC history of rent control.
4. Speculation works in the opposite direction as well for people who bet on the short.
6. This is something that's happening a lot in California where house go up year over year 7%+. Still if you increase supply than the price increase each year will be much smaller and foriegners will invest in more lucrative things.
7.8. leads to the exact same problem as 3 plus inflated prices.
What's most
These private landlords are ripping off the council. I feel really sorry for Nicky, her kids and people like her. The British housing bubble needs to burst, it will be painful but without it there is no way hardworking families on normal wages will ever be able to achieve the basic and important aim of owning their own house outright. Also, £720!! from the council for a house with no central heating, these property tycoons are taking the piss. Disgraceful. We need to build more council houses because it'll be cheaper in the long run and it'll help out people who work hard, earn good money but cannot get on the housing ladder. Perhaps councils can give these people long term security but keep housing stock by giving these people council houses for their entire life in return for reduced rent. If they break the law, they could lose their houses and the rent could be used for building new council houses. This is just an idea from an 18 year old but in my opinion its more creative than what our brain dead politicians are coming up with.
The Tory government won't allow councils to borrow to build council homes. Thatcher sold off the entire housing stock in the eighties... those houses were paid for by taxpayers, we owned them, like the railways, we owned them.. . a trademark of Tory government is homeless ness and high rail fares. If the people don't vote this lot out and keep them out, we will never have a fair society.. Vote anything but Tory
It's not the landlords specifically. It's essential the disparity between wages and house prices. Wages is how most people earn money. Businesses are paying people the same amount (even in some cases less) year on year, whilst essentials such as food, transport and property (which is by far the most expensive, therefore mostly felt) prices rise. Everyone is getting poorer but it's the vulnerable suffer more. The UK economy is extremely unbalanced at the moment. And it's heavily benefiting the wealthy more so than it has in a long time.
DSGY 1 - agreed
So my thoughts on it aren't to just build council estates, because council estates create a lot of crime and other problems for generations. Instead you build affordable housing, lots of it. Whether it's to rent or to buy you put controlled pricing on a lot of new homes, whether privately built or government built. Operating at a small profit if government built. This should deflate the market and allow both interested buyers and renters to afford homes in other areas and the government to buy individual council houses in pre-existing areas, rather than whole estates of council homes.
Sean David
I agree when it comes to non essential jobs like bar staff or landscapers as that just drives wages down with no cost saving for the people that are really struggling and when there are already enough qualified but unemployed British applicants it's effectively just increasing unemployment but 10'000 wouldn't be enough when you consider the shortfall of the NHS.
Where's the father of the children?
Making more kids elsewhere, with his super sperm
Is that actually relevant? Not there she said he pays maintenance but when you live in a house the council have allowed greedy ll to charge over the odds for its never enough
@@NataleeJT1985 working class people vote Tory to get a greedy capitalist society. Then THEY fall victim to actions of a brutal capitalist society.
They fall on their own sword.
@@LabRat6619 which has no relevance to where the father is
@@NataleeJT1985 I guess not? 🤔
My father left early on also. BUT I never deserted my kids and they are all doing well 😊
I don't agree with storage heaters, that shouldn't be allowed.
However some people get themselves into these situations due to poor decisions that they've made.
Does people renting in the UK have leases as we call it in America, basically its a contract between the landlord and tenant. Its usually 1 year and its up to the landlord if it gets renewed, but a lease or Contract usually states that the tenant can live on the property and cannot be removed unless they are doing something illegal or are a nuisance and if the landlord does throw the tenant's out for no reason, the landlord must owe the tenant not only the Security Deposit, but pay all the way up to the lease ending date. It can also mean a court battle, but its the best thing we have in America when it comes to tenants right.
That's pretty much what we have.
I'm on a 2 year contract at the moment ... me and my flat-mate have been living here for more than 5 years ... and we've never seen or spoken to the landlord. (She must like us - because the rent is always paid on time)
When the contract runs out - it becomes a rolling contract until either party decides to put a stop to it at one month's notice.
But up further north there are 1000's of empty houses.
my parents bought our house for £65,000... today its over £400,000.
niceeeeeee
same in most english speaking nations at this stage surely governments can start proper building programs and give lower income and middle class cheaper living options
> same in most english speaking nations
No. Keep the former colonies and their stupid populations out. None of them has the same problem. People per square kilometer
US: 33
UK: 285
Germany: 230
EU: 115
Global average: 51
Australia and Canada are practically empty, the US are full of retards but the UK is simply overcrowded and can't sustain its population.
How do the councils get away with allowing property firms to charge such inflated rates to "help" homeless??? I bet a portion of that Sky high rent for substandard homes goes right back to the government!
WTF EVERY SINGLE person in this documentary has glasses! Weird.
The British once had the greatest empire and build railways around the world now they becoming homeless because they can’t build a block off flats in 2018
Britain needs to really change the way it treats homeless people
Mentle health problems
It's been too many years and nothing is changing
My heart goes out to Nicki and her children.
North East? Last time i looked Peterborough was in Northamptonshire in the Midlands.
wages r so low in the UK wonder why people r so poor
people r unproductive.... low education workers with few tec jobs and few trades and high barriers to starting a business.
Thanks government
YOOOUU WEERE NOOT THEERE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE INTERVIEEEEEEEEEEW!
all houses not owned by the people living in the them, and second homes should all be compulsory purchased and rented out by the government or council.
Bloody hell, just found this. I use to live in St Michael's gate in Peterborough in 1994, then it was the council and they only allowed a maximum period. I loved it, but still was sad I moved.
When these issues should have been the focus of he nation we were being told about Brexit. This crisis has been going on for a decade and is tantamount to negligence.
Yeah because having hundreds of thousands of people coming here from the EU….
The problem is related to mass immigration. The increase in population exceeds the creation of new housing. Supply and demand.
But Brexit closed borders will ironically KILL this country.
So what you're saying is that immigrants are coming over here, working hard and buying our homes, leaving benefit scroungers like this woman high and dry? Maybe she could try working more than the 16 hours she works a week as a 'dinner lady' in order to maximise the amount in benefits she gets.
It's virtually impossible to get on the property ladder unless you're either earning a six figure salary or are lucky enough to have family that can help you with the deposit. The cost of living (e.g. rent/energy/food etc) now is such that you'd struggle to save up for a deposit even on a six figure salary. There just isn't enough houses for the population.
Personally, I don't think owning your own home is the way forward. I'd much rather see a similar system to Germany whereby you rent for life but the rent is considerably cheaper thus increasing the living standards of the bottom 50%. At the end of the day, you never really own anything as such. Everyone dies. There's no need to stick to the old system of mortgages and owning your own property so long as the cost of renting is brought down considerably.
By getting on I presume you mean survive i.e. work, eat, sleep repeat?
Dave,
Someone mention a mortgage broker only a small deposit needed. Though I haven’t done research myself might be worth considering?
do behave, there are plenty of areas where home ownership is a perfectly viable option for those on low wages, what you mean is home ownership in expensive areas is out of the reach of those on a low wage. in Peterborough you can buy a 1 bed flat for 70k, a 2 bed for 90k a 3 bed for 120k and 4 beds for £150k these are not impossible for people to get a mortgage on and they would need nowhere near a 6 figure salary to buy one.
Dave.... well, if people dont have an education to be productive enough to earn the money needed for a house thats their problem. There was never any hope for most poor people doing low skill jobs to own houses.... and why WOULD there be?
It's a return to serf society, slow but sure.
Property is expensive because demands is about 10x times that of supply. Supply is overwhelming due to mass immigration. That is why social housing crisis is massive is will be for years only mass deportation will cure the crisis!
Why are they breeding like rabbits? That's the origin of all the problems
I have seen more homeless people in my local area but it is wrong and I can't keep working past trying to ignore this injuries soo sad so I have to do something about it
What limits are there are construction density? In the U.S. we have a major housing shortage in some places caused by things like height limits, minimum lot sizes, maximum number of housing units on a lot, & parking space minimums.
I agree that there is a housing shortage in the UK. I worry for my kids. In 20 years it will be even harder to get on the housing market. There are the usual comments on here from the small minded anti-immigration Brexit fans. Placing the blame on the poor and the people who need the support of the government. This is what those in power want everyone to do, blame those people who don't have a voice. Housing and the building trade is a joke in the UK. Just out to make as much money in the shortest amount of time. How can an average house cost between £150k-£200k to build from start to finish, but to build an extension onto a small house cost £50k? It doesn't make sense. The government and politicians are to blame 100%. Its not in the interest of many politicians to build more houses. Many of them own more then one house and they themselves are landlords. Why would they want to stop earning thousands of pounds a year? The companies that build houses are also able to influence government decisions as they have become multinational organisations. I do think that there are too many people in the UK who do not take their own social responsibilities into account before starting families. Being socially responsible and thinking about your community is not something that many people consider for many reasons unfortunately. Finally the blame can not be placed on the private landlords. They are operating inside the law, set out by government, and they are operating inside of the guidelines laid out by local councils. So who is to blame really? Yes the landlords are operating in a way that one might say is not morally correct but you can not blame them for wanting to make their share holders profit! If the government built 300,000 low cost houses and apartments every year, for the next 4 years it would put a massive dent in the housing shortage. However it would require consecutive governments to do the same for the next 15 years to really have an impact on extortionate house prices in the UK.
Who would pay for this? The government gets its money taking it from productive people.... if people want to have a ton of kids and work liw skill jobs they have no right to expect people who spend years getting an education or learning a trade or starting a business to give up their money to pay for a.lifestyle that low skill workers simply are not productive enough to afford.
I want a new car, I want a new pc I want.... alway something. I HAVE NO RIGHT to expect u or somone else to buy it for me if I cant warm enough to pay for it
The average rent in Peterborough is almost £900 a month, fuck that, move out
The same thing is happening in the usa,and i hear the worse is very soon.Its not just us going through this but most rich nations the rents need to be control landlords are charging what they want people pay the bills . They don't fix the apartments and 300 more every time they feel like it.people are house poor .
All new money to the banks. Your house was worth 200k 10 years on 600k all that straight in there pocket for so you can have a mortgage..
Here's my take on the housing crisis. Back when Thatcher was in office and came up with the right to buy,in theory it was a great idea to be able to buy your home from the council at a fraction of the market price. However there was a few things wrong with the setup. First, what you probably didn't know is that her son bought up a good number of ex council flats.40 ex council flats to be exact. How exactly did this happen when the law said that you had to live in the property for 3 years before you had a right to buy. Tory cronies made it so that 1 third of all ex council flats are owned by rich landlords. 2nd, with all the extra money that they have from the sale of properties, one would think that they would have reinvested into social housing but no. In the UK nowadays there is not a new build on council land that has,to say the least, 50% flat at 'affordable' rent. What the government is failing to forget is that when they price all us plebs or indentured servants out of the cities and towns we will have to move somewhere else and leave them to it. Let's see if they can sweep their own streets, clean their own toilets,collect their own rubbish and all the other jobs that are below them.
u can move... they have immigrants to work cheeper then u now
Well said... Who is going to do all the less than popular jobs indeed, because even immigrants need somewhere to live that they can afford on even cheaper wages too?
Mass uncontrolled immigration is creating the most lucrative market for landlords and leaseholders..
Unlimited supply of people seeking housing =RECORD profits ....if you cant afford it someone else will..
they did rent control in New York and it made tge city a dump... landlords dont put money into a pit.
sorry if I came off.critical of u. The point I was making is that government has taken a problem and made a worse one while fixing it....the fact is that lot people now expect a)an easy access to a comfortable life
b)government to provide it if it's not easily available.
The dinner lady earns way too little to afford such a nice house and thinks that its a right for her to have nice house. The council pays for her to live above her means...700 pounds worth.
If the government fixes HER issue then somone else will suffer and/or have their incentives changed and eventually other people will suffer.
Honestly if the government was not pouring money into the houseing of people who are so poor they should in boarding houses or microflats then the price of houseing would drop and eventually normal people could afford it again.... instead the situation will be temp fixed until the real cracks show up
Geoff Collins - and it all started with Maggie campaigning for free movement - and getting her way.
You can always count on the government taking on a problem and making it worse.
Why did the government let all these millions of eastern Europeans into the UK when we already had a housing crisis. we are now in a farcical situation in which Eastern European families are given priority over our own single males looking for housing.these guys are very fortunate if they get offered a crummy bedsit in the worst possible areas.
fair enough government cut the benefits of renting out so the landlords use the system to their advantage it's just a case or the government trying to be greedy and it backfiring
Why the creepy music throughout the story?
The cost of living is going up because Britain continues to take in so many refugees and immigrants much as the US is now when you have a higher demand in the same amount of supply prices increase
150,000 homes were built last year, yet we still have a housing crisis!? Maybe take into account that hundreds of thousands of people immigrate to this country each and every year?
Why do people have children if they dont even own a home? That doesnt make sense to me.
very often politicians are owners of several properties and there is no interest from them to change the system. I do not think this situation will change soon...
"The landlords would say this is how they make their money and they're not doing anything illegal".. What a stupid line of questioning from the interviewer.
Stop churning out kids you can't afford, and try getting married before having them as well.
lol
4 kids. I know I wouldn't be able to afford 4 kids. Now my taxes are paying for her decisions.
then why is she living in a council house?
Obviously her position was never any better if she lives in a council house.
What could her husband ever possibly done other than be in a similar financial position? She got a divorce she would have money. If he died she would get an insurance payout. Whatever happened to her husband/boyfriend, it obviously wasn't big enough to alter her financial position.
@anon for good If her husband died, she would be getting insurance money for her kids! This woman was not married! If she divorced, she would be getting child support from her ex husband! Where is the father of her kids?! Never any mention of him in these sob stories! She is just another stupid, irresponsible scrounger!!!
Two things need to happen firstly make it illegal to make people homeless and secondly make there little pet term for not helping you illegal intentionally homeless
Where is the father of this woman's childeren??!! She nedds to get money from him!!!
Want change? Vote Corbyn for his policies and ignore the establishment smear campaign
This is a national shame. The government don’t want to build the houses that are needed because it will affect the housing ‘market’! Labour are as much to blame as the Tories.
Even though it's the tories who sold off all the council houses in the 80s and recently relaxed regulations on housing ......... it's almost like the tories are only out to make money for the idle rich .............
Keep it
Definately not good.
,
Some people own 100 houses, others own no houses.
But Peterborough is a dump pass it all the time in a lorry
All this sounds very familiar. Money rules in the UK and the US. And to hell with the people if they can't afford to find suitable housing.
The UK private investment . Not state investment. The uk gravy train
Nothing holy, good, or saintly about 'st. Michael's gate'...
Housing as goverment regeneration in policy to be as affordable in town with city.
I have sympathy for the working poor trying to put a roof over their heads. I think that controlling the supply of emergency housing via something like rent control would just make the problem worse as investors would not provide housing and then more people would be living on the street and families would be separated.
Why do the British call a subdivision a housing estate? Like I was playing bloxburg one time (a game where you build your own house on a plot similar to the sims but you live as the sims) and some British person asked to live in my housing estate but it looked nothing like this. I had 8 tract suburban houses each with 3 beds 2.5 baths and a 2 car garage. How is that anything similar to those houses in the video which are duplexes/ townhouses? Do the British call all subdivisions housing estates? Also if so why? I thought an estate was a large home on a large property these houses are dinky and my virtual subdivision was only built on about 1 acre of land so the tract houses weren't getting much yard
Britons and Americans are "divided by a common language."
Immigrants are being given priority over housing. Indigenous Brits are now being treated as second class citizens, this is most obvious in the housing sector. New House building cannot keep pace with the incoming immigrants so our young generation are going to suffer trying to find homes in the UK now.
Wow thanks Newsnight for that uplifting story.... I’ll go into a corner now and think about all these horrible things my generation are no doubt being blamed for ....
I live in Peterborough :D
Lincon road
I sold my rental houses . Few reasons really under new rules housing money is paid to the tenant . I found tents do not look after the property also you pay full council tax is paid on an empty property . Also when it came to selling the estate agent said the value of the property value was worth less because it was an ex rental . Renting is a mugs game . I will put my money in property abroad now . My 3 bed houses where modernised and £500 a month .
michael green nah it's not about the rent money. My granddad brought 3 houses in London he says it increase 10%-12% on capital. And he just rents it out to family at a discount so they take care of it
michael green compared to Hong Kong London is dirt cheap. The 3 houses would have cost a 3 bed flat in Hong kong
Will the councils start paying benefits recipients’ car insurance next? Lol
I’m born and bred from this dire place .. (family were from Ireland and London so no links to this awful town) I’ve never been so miserable , depressed and bullied by weirdos with six toes and Weird accents. Left aged 17 snd never looked back. Horrific weirdo people
Renters and homeless english people must work in the bar, save their enough money from the alcoholic liquor industry and immigrate immediately to Australia's, New Zealand's , Canada's small towns and villages asap then.
The housing issue is casued by nothing but private investment and lack of govt. control over the private housing sector; furthermore the rise in homelessness and people in need of care has risen due to conservative party policy.
Lets talk about people that don't take care of their homes leaving damage. And homes used by criminals for criminal activity.
Abd lets talk about and expose dirty landlords.
Greenbelts...
Just shows you 2023 it is even worse. Thanks Torry
Disgraceful.
They should have more housing support for working people "tax payers " struggling to keep a roof over their heads.. instead of helping people who don't and are not looking to contribute to society in any way.. Am not saying not to help the needed but give priority to the working people..