‘Despicable’: Homeless people being ‘dumped’ in North East from London
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24565195.vulnerable-people-moved-london-county-durham/
by LOTDT
‘Despicable’: Homeless people being ‘dumped’ in North East from London
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24565195.vulnerable-people-moved-london-county-durham/
by LOTDT
23 comments
As someone who is unfamiliar with England, how bad is it to be moved from the South East to the North East?
They’re putting a load of homeless people from london here in our town in the south too. I guess london services are overloaded, but our town has no homeless services.
But that’s good news though. London doesn’t need them.
The road to Hull is paved with good intentions. Nimby policy, alongside, don’t feed the pigeons
It’s harsh.
But it’s also the dependent discovering how the independent live their lives. There are plenty of people in England who might like to live in London but have decided they can’t afford it.
Sounds about right, they’ll keep the money though and shop out the problem.
Homeless people being given homes?! How despicable!
This is happening up and down the country. “Oh so you had a family member in this place once, here is a train ticket now you aren’t our problem”.
This must be to reeducate the alt right nutters on how to integrate better.
>Mr Easterlow said: “For some time we have been supporting people in East Durham who have been moved here from the South East of England.
>“These ‘households’ are often single people moved up here with no local links and no support networks.
>“Some are simply placed on a train with a key and an address. It is a deplorable act.
>“Moving vulnerable people into already embattled communities who facing high levels of deprivation and generational poverty is a contemptible act.
>“How can someone simply pop a human being on a train, send them on their way and then think ‘not my problem anymore’.”
>He explained that the lack of information about these resettlements and the lack of support for those being moved made it a “damaging practice”.
>He said: “Especially when they have vulnerabilities such as mental ill health and homelessness. These are unmanaged resettlements.
>“We are not informed as a local support charity. This places huge pressure on already stretched council and voluntary sector resources.
>“We need to shine a light on this poor policy and damaging practice.”
If they’re being sent to be homeless elsewhere, that’s despicable. If they’re being given a small flat to live in there where is the problem?
They’re being a bit dishonest with their statistics here. The north east on average in certainly poorer than the rest of the country but that doesn’t mean there aren’t wealthier areas.
Durham is famously full of white middle and upper middle class people and wealthy students who go to the university.
Someone in the local councils of where these people are going needs to get onto this and seize the opportunity to do something worthwhile. Beg, borrow steal a bit of funding, put some stupid thing on hold and use the money from that, whatever.
A London homeless person being given a house key and an address is a good start.
Someone from social services being there at the other end to basically oriehteer them with the area and help them find some sort of purpose, find work, better yet get them.on a course etc and all of a sudden you’ve got an actual good thing. Got to be worth a little bit of money throwing at it, surely?
I find it a bit suspicious they wouldn’t name any of the London councils doing it, isn’t that the point of the article to make people aware of an issue or is it just to stoke anti-London sentiment in the north more?
Barnet council have done this to Peterborough a few times.Buyting up a load of cheap houses and then sending their unwanted up the A1. They even managed to buy up a job lot with tenants in them. Who they promptly evicted and filled with their own.
The failure of joined up thinking strikes again!
From a housing viewpoint it makes sense to house the homeless is cheaper areas, from the viewpoints of ongoing support, employment and wider community networks this is clearly flawed!
Which is stupid, cause they wont help you if you don’t have a connection to the area
They’ve been doing that down in the SE ever since austerity started. London councils have been buying land in Kent for social housing because it’s cheaper for them to do that than house them in London. Of course all the social problems and costs are then passed on to places like Canterbury council. This doesn’t make you special NE and I know you think the SE is a paradise but in actuality the whole country exists to provide for London. The people who do well in the SE work in London, if you don’t the same economic realities exist in places like Folkestone, Hastings or Bognor Regis as they do for Scarborough or Hull. Except everything is more expensive down here.
just because they’re homeless doesn’t mean they’re despicable
They’ve done this down here in Cornwall lots of times over the years.
It really sucks but I dont know what choice they have. Very few people *need* to live in one of the most expensive cities on the planet at the cost of others. My council, the London Borough of Havering has had to borrow a £52 million loan from Central government to cover the costs of housing people. Our council tax will go up with no improvements in services.
Obviously the real problem is the sheer number of people coming in and needing support but until that problem is fixed, moving people to cheaper parts of the country makes financial sense if you can house three families for the cost of one.
Yes, its not great for the existing communities they don’t have a choice.
It sounds like they’re being given FREE HOUSING. What am I missing?
If this is moving street homeless people to areas in particular that get colder in winter feels like it’ll cause more homeless deaths or deterioration of health.
Also is there an article all I’m seeing is one paragraph and endless ads