Eight people are being forced to sleep in this house. Children with black feet are getting sick as water runs down the walls
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Forced? Who would have seven kids if you couldn’t look after the first one or two? I feel sorry for the kids having parents like that.
Frankly, just having 8 people in a house would cause a humidity problem on it’s own. 400g worth of water released per person per day by breathing is like 3.2kg of water, before considering washing, cooking, and drying clothes on a heater instead of using a tumble drier that’s vented externally. (or a washing line)
I doubt that there is anything seriously wrong with the property; it just needs a pretty heavy duty dehumidifier with this sort of population density. Or a Victorian property and a coal fire, which with airflow of like 200% of the house per minute through air feeding the fire prevents humidity problems quite nicely.
We are living in a crisis of collapsing birth rates and yet the people who appear to be having the largest families seem to be the most irresponsible and least able to afford them. The long-term trajectory of this does not seem sustainable.
Those poor children have shitty parents.
“As well as the damp in the property, Gemma says that fact that the house is on a busy main road, the fact that they do not feel safe opening their windows due to a break in and it’s location meaning the garden is unusable makes the property “completely unsuitable” for the young family.”
No wonder the place is covered in mould if they are too “scared” to ventilate. Sounds like she is sacrificing her childrens’ health to force the council to provide a different accommodation.
Am I supposed to feel some sort of sympathy for her?
What does she mean ‘forced’? She isn’t locked in. Nothing stopping her from looking at local properties to rent and finding one that’s suitable for her and her family. I’m sure she thought about finding appropriately sized properties in the future when she had her third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh child. So much learned helplessness. I’d do anything to avoid my child living in that squalor.
I’m a liberal person and generally not a fan of classism or shaming people but there is no justification for having so many children.
I’d be judging them even if they had a 10 bedroom mansion, let alone being dependent on council.
I don’t understand why they would keep having kids? Really fascinated if anyone has insight.
If you’ve ever slept in a caravan or tent, you’ll know how damp it can get even with the vents cracked open.
But please have another child and let the tax payer be the daddy.
She should have the kids took off her, not gifted a bigger/nicer house for her to keep breeding in
The problem is that we as a society have decided we’re not going to blame children for the failings of their parents… but the only mechanism we’ve come up with to support those children is to keep shoving money and housing at those parents.
Compo face rubbish.
What awful parents
There is a national housing crisis that isn’t being reported on. There are 150,000 homeless children in the UK right now – we are a first world country and we can’t even make sure everyone has the most fundamental of needs met? Shocking.
The government need to take action, there is a chronic shortage of housing, nothing is affordable, LHAs haven’t risen in line with inflation, greedy landlords are allowed to triple rents, there are people buying second homes when there are families that don’t have one, they’re building houses on unsuitable areas (flood plains etc.) and people seriously think this poor woman has any hope of finding somewhere else? It’s not that easy.
Yes, she has a large family – maybe she was stable before the cost of living crisis? Maybe her landlord sold her house and she lost her job? Maybe her partner was well paid and supported the children but she had to flea him because of DV. No one knows this woman’s story but what I do know is that EVERYONE, regardless of colour or creed, deserves a safe home to live in.
I’d be careful pointing the judging finger, anyone could find themselves homeless and dependent on state help one day and it might just be sooner than you think, if the state of the economy is anything to go by. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer but yeah, let’s blame Gemma with 7 kids, it’s her fault, not the fat cats that sit on our labour created wealth; they created this problem, not her.
This isn’t about her or her life choices.
This is about the local council, and that someone’s head needs to be on the block for this saga.
They chose that property one that was not fit for human habitation. That is it.
They farmed out the work, from the sounds of it to the cheapest possible bid, and never checked that any work actually got done or to what standard.
There was water running down the walls when she moved in. Damp is one thing , water running down the walls is another, and points to far larger problems that were not fixed.
Someone thought that property, with water running down the wall when it rains, was fine for young kids to live in.
The only ‘work’ that had been completed was them putting wallpaper on to cover and hide the damage.
So who in god’s name signed off on that and said that’s fine for people to live in?
Did anyone even bother to inspect the property?
They have been contacted numerous times by this lady. Had letter after letter, including those from the GPS to say the property was quite literally making the children sick.
They knew exactly what state that property was in and the problems.
The property is covered in black mold to the point most of the rooms can’t be used.
It can’t be properly ventilated either, as they already had someone break into the kids bedroom through an open window, and the councils response just keep the windows closed… it’s also infested with slugs.
Nothing got done.
This has nothing to do with her or why she needed that accommodation, and everything to do with the people who decided duty of care, and responsibilities to house people in safe accommodation didn’t matter.
If she wasn’t placed there it would have been another family going through this.
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Condemn property, evict for safety.
Maybe their piss bottle was full.
There’s 3 of us in our exceptionally well-insulated flat, it’s so warm and well built that we don’t need the heating on in the winter. But guess what! It’s incredibly damp, me, him and the dog are all breathing in one room which receives no direct sunlight. Damp is inevitable in 99% of UK housing, get a humidifier, open windows, circulate your items. It’s so simple.
It’s prudent to get your life sorted out & a healthy place to live before bringing a single child into the world, let alone a litter….
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