*e – this was the original comment, someone unshadowbanned it. Classy*
It’s so boring to laugh at Blackpool and call it a shithole without understanding the pressure the place is under. Out of town landlords snap up old B+Bs at auction without ever viewing them, do a half ass conversion into houses of multiple occupancy and then suckle on taxpayer housing benefits.
It’s bad for the town, for the buildings which are left to collapse and for the vulnerable people dumped inside them. It’s been going on for far too long. The landlords are parasites and ripping us all off – it takes even more taxpayer money to then help these people.
I’ve no idea which word caused my comment to get shadow banned. Why are this sub’s rules so opaque?
e – my original comment blaming rogue landlords – https://pastebin.com/Jyv4wxFY
e2 – my original comment has now been unblocked by our sub overlords
> *The scrutiny report said a major concern was “the high number of vulnerable people being brought in from out of area by providers in order to take places within supported housing in the town.
“Concern was raised that some other local authorities might be aware of the practice and appointed agencies to locate vulnerable and difficult to place adults in Blackpool, resulting in a person outside of their home town with no local connections and therefore increasing their vulnerability.”
This was backed by the fact more than 80 per cent of new housing benefit claims in Blackpool are made by people arriving from outside the area.*
Basically the councillors are saying Blackpool is becoming a dumping ground.
Should be noted that a couple of years back The Guardian ran a piece on Blackpool being a magnet for child sex offenders due to seasonal work bringing in outsiders who cant be traced. Quite grim;
This is the problem with localising funding for such services, areas that get dumped on don’t have the funds to cope.
There’s a seaside town near me that (at one point at least) had the UKs highest amount of drug rehab centres in England. I found it kind of hilarious when I found out as it explained a lot about the place.
will that include Ukrainian refugees if any come to the UK?
Vulnerable to what? Where are the invulnerable adults, in the cemetery?
Who are these “providers”, and what do they “provide”? Why not say so in the first place?
What authority do these “local authorities”(?) have to appoint “agencies” to “place” adults “outside of their home town with no local connections”, however “difficult” or otherwise it may be to do so?
Does all this flimflam (even the writer of the article, a “local democracy reporter”(!) seems to be sickened by it, with her “so-called supported housing” quip) have anything to do with HMP Preston busing its inmates to Blackpool upon their release?
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*e – this was the original comment, someone unshadowbanned it. Classy*
It’s so boring to laugh at Blackpool and call it a shithole without understanding the pressure the place is under. Out of town landlords snap up old B+Bs at auction without ever viewing them, do a half ass conversion into houses of multiple occupancy and then suckle on taxpayer housing benefits.
It’s bad for the town, for the buildings which are left to collapse and for the vulnerable people dumped inside them. It’s been going on for far too long. The landlords are parasites and ripping us all off – it takes even more taxpayer money to then help these people.
I’ve no idea which word caused my comment to get shadow banned. Why are this sub’s rules so opaque?
e – my original comment blaming rogue landlords – https://pastebin.com/Jyv4wxFY
e2 – my original comment has now been unblocked by our sub overlords
> *The scrutiny report said a major concern was “the high number of vulnerable people being brought in from out of area by providers in order to take places within supported housing in the town.
“Concern was raised that some other local authorities might be aware of the practice and appointed agencies to locate vulnerable and difficult to place adults in Blackpool, resulting in a person outside of their home town with no local connections and therefore increasing their vulnerability.”
This was backed by the fact more than 80 per cent of new housing benefit claims in Blackpool are made by people arriving from outside the area.*
Basically the councillors are saying Blackpool is becoming a dumping ground.
Should be noted that a couple of years back The Guardian ran a piece on Blackpool being a magnet for child sex offenders due to seasonal work bringing in outsiders who cant be traced. Quite grim;
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/may/30/ukcrime.childprotection
(FULL ARTICLE; https://archive.is/0hQQO#selection-1097.1-1113.143)
This is the problem with localising funding for such services, areas that get dumped on don’t have the funds to cope.
There’s a seaside town near me that (at one point at least) had the UKs highest amount of drug rehab centres in England. I found it kind of hilarious when I found out as it explained a lot about the place.
will that include Ukrainian refugees if any come to the UK?
Vulnerable to what? Where are the invulnerable adults, in the cemetery?
Who are these “providers”, and what do they “provide”? Why not say so in the first place?
What authority do these “local authorities”(?) have to appoint “agencies” to “place” adults “outside of their home town with no local connections”, however “difficult” or otherwise it may be to do so?
Does all this flimflam (even the writer of the article, a “local democracy reporter”(!) seems to be sickened by it, with her “so-called supported housing” quip) have anything to do with HMP Preston busing its inmates to Blackpool upon their release?
We truly live in an idiocracy.