If for not this then what is the alternative? At the moment, don’t they get a nice warm roof?
It wouldn’t cost much per apartment with kids to make the space work better at very least. How much is a wall anchored pull down desk, bunks? At a local level so much could be done if there was liaison between the council/ management of these kind of apartments and the community. An architect gives some time here, a local woodworking group gives some time and materials there, some local volunteers give some time or money. Having nowhere but the floor for a child to do homework is a system that isn’t working.
It’s almost as if a massive sell-off of housing stock, and a failure to replenish it, leads to such a mess.
It’s not a new problem. Multiple times growing up I’ve shared a room with my parents. Multiple times I’ve slept on a camp bed or merely a mattress. My bed now just consists of a mattress on the floor. Kids shouldn’t have to go through this. It pains me to see the decline of the UK.
We had a net migration of over half a million in 2022 and that was only up to June, highly doubt we had that many houses or any other infrastructure built to accommodate that , so I can’t understand why people are shocked
And yet, migration to the UK was over a million people last year. When is the government going to *start* building more infrastructure required to support the existing population? This is the UK in 2023 – not enough of anything, homes, teachers, medical staff, ambulances, water.. etc etc.
Fuck this fucking country and all the fucking fucks who keep voting Tory, and all the fucks who don’t vote Tory but won’t actively vote against them. Fuck. Fucks sake. Fucking bullshit.
We need a party that states they will stop using QE to fund the Private sector and start using it to build infrastructure and Pay decent wages. That’s the most important policy that should be on the agenda alongside the banning of lobbying/bribing. Funding to oil companies needs to immediately stop also, they not should be taking funding from the QE tax payer whilst keeping the profits in the private shareholder sector.
The only consistent aim of the labour and Tory party is to funnel money from the public purse to the private purse.
Voters get what voters want…
If You’ve ever opposed housing in your area, if you believe in keeping the Greenbelt as it is, if you believe in the Town and Country Planning Act, if you opposed the bedroom tax (designed to more effectively allocated social housing) these are the consequences of policy you believe in…
“”We deserve to have at least one single bed each and one wardrobe,” says the 36-year-old”
Such entitlement. Growing up in the 70’s in a family of 7 we just got on with it. Parents had a fold out bed downstairs. Upstairs, 5 of us split between 3 rooms.
I doubt she would have much better back in her eastern block home.
Lived in couple for ten years and had to sleep in the living room or the hall though at least had a desk all the time. Going to a RG uni at least and now I can see myself getting out of rooms now at least in a few years. Honestly at least other countries at least able to keep rents low in order for low income families or at least single mothers like mine can get a decent flat for an affordable price. The UK is only money obsessed and it is the true America of Europe. Especially the tories.
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If for not this then what is the alternative? At the moment, don’t they get a nice warm roof?
It wouldn’t cost much per apartment with kids to make the space work better at very least. How much is a wall anchored pull down desk, bunks? At a local level so much could be done if there was liaison between the council/ management of these kind of apartments and the community. An architect gives some time here, a local woodworking group gives some time and materials there, some local volunteers give some time or money. Having nowhere but the floor for a child to do homework is a system that isn’t working.
It’s almost as if a massive sell-off of housing stock, and a failure to replenish it, leads to such a mess.
It’s not a new problem. Multiple times growing up I’ve shared a room with my parents. Multiple times I’ve slept on a camp bed or merely a mattress. My bed now just consists of a mattress on the floor. Kids shouldn’t have to go through this. It pains me to see the decline of the UK.
We had a net migration of over half a million in 2022 and that was only up to June, highly doubt we had that many houses or any other infrastructure built to accommodate that , so I can’t understand why people are shocked
And yet, migration to the UK was over a million people last year. When is the government going to *start* building more infrastructure required to support the existing population? This is the UK in 2023 – not enough of anything, homes, teachers, medical staff, ambulances, water.. etc etc.
Fuck this fucking country and all the fucking fucks who keep voting Tory, and all the fucks who don’t vote Tory but won’t actively vote against them. Fuck. Fucks sake. Fucking bullshit.
We need a party that states they will stop using QE to fund the Private sector and start using it to build infrastructure and Pay decent wages. That’s the most important policy that should be on the agenda alongside the banning of lobbying/bribing. Funding to oil companies needs to immediately stop also, they not should be taking funding from the QE tax payer whilst keeping the profits in the private shareholder sector.
The only consistent aim of the labour and Tory party is to funnel money from the public purse to the private purse.
Voters get what voters want…
If You’ve ever opposed housing in your area, if you believe in keeping the Greenbelt as it is, if you believe in the Town and Country Planning Act, if you opposed the bedroom tax (designed to more effectively allocated social housing) these are the consequences of policy you believe in…
“”We deserve to have at least one single bed each and one wardrobe,” says the 36-year-old”
Such entitlement. Growing up in the 70’s in a family of 7 we just got on with it. Parents had a fold out bed downstairs. Upstairs, 5 of us split between 3 rooms.
I doubt she would have much better back in her eastern block home.
Lived in couple for ten years and had to sleep in the living room or the hall though at least had a desk all the time. Going to a RG uni at least and now I can see myself getting out of rooms now at least in a few years. Honestly at least other countries at least able to keep rents low in order for low income families or at least single mothers like mine can get a decent flat for an affordable price. The UK is only money obsessed and it is the true America of Europe. Especially the tories.