> The common assumption is that social housing is only an option for those who don’t work, or who live on benefits. But that narrative – begun by Margaret Thatcher’s sell-off of council housing in the 1980s, and turbocharged by rightwing rhetoric about benefits scroungers – is nonsense.
Where would such crazy right-wing ideas come from?
*author then goes on to explain that he is sole earner in the relationship, working as a ‘part-time freelancer’ between bouts of mental health*
How is “need” defined for social housing? I assume a single man in a full time job is bottom of the pile, as usual.
Oosh. Imagine actually *choosing* to live in social housing.
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> The common assumption is that social housing is only an option for those who don’t work, or who live on benefits. But that narrative – begun by Margaret Thatcher’s sell-off of council housing in the 1980s, and turbocharged by rightwing rhetoric about benefits scroungers – is nonsense.
Where would such crazy right-wing ideas come from?
*author then goes on to explain that he is sole earner in the relationship, working as a ‘part-time freelancer’ between bouts of mental health*
How is “need” defined for social housing? I assume a single man in a full time job is bottom of the pile, as usual.
Oosh. Imagine actually *choosing* to live in social housing.