Family of 13 squeezed into 3-bed mouldy house plead for new home as pregnant mum sick – MyLondon
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/family-13-squeezed-3-bed-29202243
by Impossible-Sale-7925
Family of 13 squeezed into 3-bed mouldy house plead for new home as pregnant mum sick – MyLondon
https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/family-13-squeezed-3-bed-29202243
by Impossible-Sale-7925
44 comments
No one should have to live in a mouldy house, that is disgusting.
And no one should be having a 12th child if you live in a 3 bedroom mouldy house.
Life is going to be rough for these poor children.
>After a lengthy online application process, the family was told it is not eligible for rehousing in Newham, because they have not yet lived there for three years.
>A Greenwich Council spokesperson echoed this statement, adding: “We are currently working with Newham Council to resolve the situation and we are in direct contact with Mr Safi to support him in finding more suitable accommodation, however it is harder to find larger family homes.
>”Unfortunately, there is a housing crisis in London and we have more than 27,000 households on our housing waiting list, and more than 1,900 households living in temporary accommodation. With homelessness sadly at record levels, it is a huge challenge for local authorities across the capital and beyond.”
It’s wrong these children are being raised in a mouldy house, but at the end of the day, councils (especially not in London) cannot magic up houses for families of 13.
The wife and kids fled Afghanistan after the Taliban invaded Kabul in 2022, so they already had lots of children when their lives were upended.
Goes without saying that those kids have probably seen some bad things, and it’s not like they planned to be in this situation.
If you can’t afford double digit kids don’t have double digit kids
Been given more than most veterans, she should be thankful just to be here
I doubt they can support 11 kids in London on a delivery drivers wage.
But I thought child benefits were limited to 2 children? So what’s going on here?
A house that fits 13, soon to be 14, will be worth millions in London. It’s not a good use of money. They should be relocated or the dad should get a job that would house his family, like joining the army.
> He added that he has resorted to repeatedly repainting the walls in the house himself in an effort to keep the mould at bay, but ‘the damp always comes again,’ continuing: “It’s a difficult life.”
He should also consider cleaning the mould up, rather than just painting over it, getting a dehumidifier and opening a window.
I will say what needs to be said, even if it’s considered heartless by most. The father is a delivery driver, he clearly doesn’t have the income (or the skills to obtain a better job) to support either himself or a family in one of the most expensive cities in the world. He shouldn’t be here. Yet here he is, with a family of 13. A nation like the UK that can barely take care of its citizens shouldn’t be going around all over the world offering charity to the downtrodden because it’s a disservice and a betrayal to the citizens it’s ignoring, and a deception to all those around who are led believe the UK is some paradise with enough finite resources to grant sustainable accommodation to everyone.
Of course, people from Afghanistan aren’t to blame for this, our politicians who hand out visas like candy are. I don’t see why it’s beneficial to the country to bring over a family of 13 people, most of them children, to the UK. These are kids that now need to be fed and educated by us. If the reasons aren’t economically beneficial but simply humanitarian, the wellbeing of the nation should be prioritized over the well being of foreigners. I can’t blame them for escaping the Taliban but surely there are quite a few countries between Afghanistan and the UK, no? Like seriously, how are we supposed to find adequate housing for a family of TWELVE children? Ridiculous.
Another thing the army shouldn’t be going around smuggling people into the nation. No idea why this shit is tolerated by us.
I used to live in a 1 bed mouldy apartment for a few years.
Obviously I knew that the place was not suitable for children so I used condoms.
Condoms are free.
I’m sure some people would downvote me for this but seriously… I feel after the 4th child we have a serious case for deliberate child mistreatment…
Teaching them about contraception and also how to deal with mould other than just painting over it would be a better use of money. (It needs to be *removed* before re-painting.)
They must know we don’t have loads of council houses for a family that large? Even smaller families with one or two kids can wait years to get a council property!
How many kids?
Who’s paying for them?
Pregnant again, in a 3 bed house ?
If you can’t feed them, don’t breed them.
Another tax payer funded situation, and make council look like the bad guys???
Wake up.
Hopefully Mr Safi has signed up for a vasectomy.
He’s ‘done well’ to have that many children given he has lived in UK, and his wife and children were in Afghanistan. (Yes I know there were flights). Although I suppose adoption can’t be ruled out.
*Mr Safi said he is growing particularly anxious about his wife’s health, who is ‘not well’ and is due to give birth to their 12th child any day now.*
*Mr Safi’s wife and children fled to the UK from Afghanistan in 2022, following the Taliban’s invasion of Kabul. As Mr Safi was already a long-term resident in the UK, where he works as a delivery driver, he said the British Army agreed to aid the family’s passage to the UK via Dubai.*
*The family lived in temporary accommodation in Central London for a year, before Greenwich Council stepped in to secure them a permanent home, where they are now living in Newham, as Mr Safi had previously resided in Greenwich for seven years. The family struggle to fit in the three-bed home with three children having to sleep in the living room each night.*
At some point people are going to realise that England (where vast majority of migrants to the UK want to live) is a small country that is already one of the most densely populated, already short of housing, but also short of infrastructure. Yes we need to free up space for housing, but we also need space for nature and things like flood plains for the climate change effects.
The amount of moisture and therefore condensation created by that many people breathing and simply being in a property of that size will cause mould problems, without a very effective ventilation system. I’m not sure even leaving windows open 24/7 would be enough.
Why do people (any ethnicity) continue having large families when they can’t support them? I mean he says he’s concerned with his families health and the council aren’t doing anything. When did it fall on other people to support your family?! He may be concerned about their health but he isn’t concerned about sticking his dick in his wife though..
Family of 13?! At what point do you stop having kids?!
Maybe have the means to support children before having them and relying on the state?
They’re living in unacceptable conditions but the only way you’ll find a house big enough for 13 children in London is using a royal palace
Looks like he’s got his priorities right, a widesceen tv / tv licence.
You know where has a nice dry climate and plenty of space for your eleven children? Afghanistan
One family with that many kids and people don’t believe natives are being replaced.
Oh fuck off. I can barely afford 1 child but im supposed to pay for hers? Ridiculous.
I bet they would have a 12 bedroom mansion back in Afghanistan. This is just to get fucking freebies from government. They know they will get eventually.
While I’m largely in favour of immigration, there aren’t homes for 13 basically anywhere that are affordable by what they earn. If you fit 13 people in a three-bed house, the house will become mouldy. Three bedroom houses in London are already pretty expensive so it seems what they have is appropriate and equitable. A working British family living in the same area would likely find themselves in the same situation.
The solution would have been to not have 13 kids, and now there isn’t a solution, but there doesn’t always need to be. Sometimes people’s lives are just shit because of their own choices and that’s just how things are.
I do wonder why so many get placed in London, a city notorious for lack of housing. Why not a northern city that isn’t overcrowded?
The West spent 20+ years in Afghanistan, only to hand it over to the Taliban almost immediately thereafter.
Afghans clearly don’t want to fight to improve their own country, so why are we taking them in?
This is the reason UC has a two child limit.
Right here.
One of the few things the Conservatives were right on.
Wonder what the house of a delivery driver with 13 going on 14 kids in Afghanistan would look like?
Fair enough the council should sort out the damp issues, provided they aren’t actually being caused by the tenants, but I don’t see how they’re entitled to anything more, how many council houses have more than three bedrooms anyway!?
Family of 13. At some point, you need to stop having kids and take responsibility.
I think that people need to actually have a look on a world map and get some perspective on how small the UK actually is. We physically do not have the space for more and more people, especially not a family of 10 plus. Each child will go on to have two children minimum in most cases and then it goes on and on and on
How do I stop my taxes going to idiots who can’t use birth control
At some point, maybe stop having children?
Having 12+ kids just means you’re always going to be 3 or more kids to a room, the council isn’t going to go and buy you a 13 bed mansion and cover the costs, and you certainly aren’t going to be able to live there forever.
Seems like he and that menagerie should fuck off back to their own country.
I’m always told by lefties that fresh immigrants can’t get benefits and then you have entitled pricks like this
And here I am, a Brit living in London thinking I can’t afford to have a second child.
Our flat is moldy, our boiler is broken and no one cares, at least we dont have kids
Why on earth would you have so many kids that you can’t support? Completely irresponsible. I don’t know anybody with even half that amount of children.
They’re not to blame for Afghanistan being a shit hole but we should not be picking up the tab for massive family of 13.
I wish people didn’t just keep shitting out kids, having a family is everyone’s right but you need to be able to take care of your own responsibility yourself to a large degree. Help those who help themselves.
Contrary to what everyone is saying, he has been here for a while his family was brought over in 2022 by the MoD.
He likely lived here sending remittances until they all needed to get out of Dodge and came here. If he should have been brought by the MoD isn’t the question, because he was.
Those children are being failed, the family need to be given the option of a larger house outside of London, and he should be given some vocational training to get a career and settled rather than gig economy work.
Train him as a brickie and put him in the midlands. He’ll be fine and I’m sure his family will be grateful. Besides, it is the right thing to do.
We must also absolutely be housing every other family that is stuck in similar circumstances and If we don’t have the housing stock then we should build them. If only we had some more tradesmen…
I think a new policy of “vasectomy for a visa” might be on the cards here…ffs 13 kids and economically non-contributory parents.
How much negative equity does this family bring to the UK? Just taking housing costs, benefits, maternity costs…and the costs of educating 13 children to the age of 18 (bbc article says £73k)…
That’s well over £1,000,000 gone from the Treasury!
I am tired of pretending that we fucked Afghanistan. No, we didn’t. We did our hardest to set up a decent and egalitarian government, spending thousands of our soldiers to the cause. Afghan society couldn’t care less. Crumbled in months to the Taliban. Clearly, the Afghans don’t mind Sharia law since they don’t actually spend any blood fighting against it.
The kids should be taken off them and placed into care. There needs to be some point / implications of coming to the uk to become a parasite on the already stretched system’s. Maybe taking the kids off the parents for a chance at a better life would teach them as I doubt they give a crap about their wellbeing.
THIRTEEN children and pregnant with another child???? Most people can barely afford to have one child in London
“Thanks for having me. Now, here is a list of my demands”.
No one should be living in a mouldy home. Slightly crazy that’s up for debate.
Irresponsible to have so many children. The should not get a bigger house, but landlord should do the repairs.