Should a family who have waited many years for a council house come before a larger but new immigrant family?

Question

Where I used to live in inner London much friction was caused by the council giving precedence to large families from Bangladesh. People who had lived in the borough all their life and were married with perhaps two or three children were refused accommodation because immigrant families with perhaps five or six children were housed first.

CHUCK N and michael k speak from ignorance. I own a house and have done for many years. I was asking a question on behalf of the many young couples in inner cities who work but do not earn enough to buy a house.

Now we have Sarah C playing the race card. No government can provide enough accommodation to house anybody who decides to come to this country. We should make sure that all people that live in the country are housed adequately before we house new arrivals. Isn't that common sense. Nothing to do with racism Ruth K. Get a life.

Answer 1

To timothy M.
I am not ignorant beyond contempt. Its simple, this country cannot support any more immigrants. The hospitals, school for their kids, housing etc.. We cannot afford to look after them. No put it simple, I cannot afford to pay taxes to look after them. If you want to pay the extra taxes then that's fine. You do it. I cannot afford to get my own pension never mind pay the extra 6% that the councils want to look after them. Oh by the way. Would it not be far simpler to travel to the country next to you. Example if you were from Zimbabwe, why not go to South Africa, or travel to another safe African country? Or if you were from Iran why not go to Turkey.?It all boils down that these people are free loaders who know that they will get what they want form the U.K. Your ignorance is showing. You foolish man. We are being led up the garden path. What about the Asylum seeker who claims he was gay from Jamaica who said his life was in danger, so he came to the U.K and guess what he did, that's right he raped 3 women. You must be thick. Like I say we don't have the resources to pay for these people and I don't want to pay for them. If it boils down to paying for a better standard of living for my family or paying extra taxes for some free loading immigrant, who do you think I would want to support. Get a life.

Answer 2

Everyone if they are legally entitle to be here should be housed.
Where I have seen resentment entering the frame is when new housing has been given to new arrivals while people that have lived in council accommodation for a long time and have been told they are to be rehoused then have to stay in their old homes. Perhaps asylum seekers or new emigrants should be put in the older housing stock and await a new home, if they really need asylum they would be pleased of any home for a short time without causing such resentment with British born people.
I am not a racist and I think everyone should get a chance for a better life but some consideration should be given to home grown
nationals also

Answer 3

If the family already have a house, then priority should be given to the immigrant family who would otherwise be homeless.

It is not true to say that they have passed through five safe countries to get here: many arrive directly by plane; according to the Office for National Statistics, in the second quarter of 2006, the largest number of applications for asylum came from Zimbabwe, Eritrea and Iran. It is unlikely that these people will have travelled over-land to get here.

To the lady from Tennessee who didn't know what a council house is - it's the equivalent of public housing in your major cities.

As for those of you who do not believe this country should welcome asylum seekers, or immigrants of any sort, your ignorance is shameful, and you are beneath contempt.

Answer 4

Chucky N, I assume, is either an adolescent or had everything handed to him on a plate by mummy and daddy.

My parents were council house tenants. My father worked damn hard, bringing us kids up, on a labourers wage and we were never able to afford our own private house. People like chuckyboy will never understand that sort of working class lifestyle. Even now, a lot of council tenants are honest decent hard working men and women who just don't earn enough within their family to get the sort of money together for today's high price properties.

Balancing the needs of a LEGAL immigrant family and the current population will always be a problem. The root causes are in government policies - especially previous Tory governments. It is unfair to blame any one family or group of families for the current problem.

Answer 5

I think chuck N needs a bit of a slap, and Ruth needs to stop being a wanna be snob. I have a trade and am highly skilled in the profession I'm in and i live in a council house.
A family , who have lived in this country and paid taxes all of there lives, SHOULD be given the council house before any non tax paying refugee.
The refugee should be happy with what they are offered as it must be better than what they have just left behind.
(Here goes the do gooders again.)

Answer 6

yes they should its our country and if we went to theirs would we be given a council house. I was born and lived in an area for over 21 years had my name down on the list for about 5 years moved away for 3 months and then reapplied to the council to be told that i had to live in that area for 5 years before i was allowed to put my name down on the list however a immigrant family just got off the ferry and was offered a home within days. Is that fair, see my point.

Answer 7

Why is there a shortage of accomodation at all? The tories forced local councils to sell off housing stock, thats why.
Then the councils weren't allowed to put the money back into their exosting housing stock, on the grounds that it was 'a different budget'.
How about you stop trying to play races against each other and tackle the root causes of the problem? Poverty means people need social housing.

Answer 8

WHoA! the united kingdom has a factors depending gadget for immigration; factors are provided for skills which may be valued interior the united kingdom by using low variety of human beings already interior the united kingdom with that expertise. with a view to't quite say that they contriute to no longer something-they had to be able to DO something to attain get precise of entry to. for sure, i'm nonetheless waiting for the day the position any authorities will take care of its personal human beings. Why else do you imagine Immigrants flee from their homelands?! yet it really is a step ahead in ensuring the taxpayers are not left behind in a cloud of airborne dirt and dust. the authentic question is "how lengthy will this very last or stay valuable for?" it seems to me that there are literally thousands of loopholes in it.

Answer 9

Unfortunately things like this do not work out as they should,a family with seniority on the waiting list should come first.In my town there are 4 bedroomed council and housing association properties being built, need I say more?

Answer 10

The answer has to be yes. However Blair and his PC brigade think different to most people with any sense. If we do not have the capacity of housing stock available we should stop immigration. Blair thinks however that we should forgo the rights of all our parents and grandparents fought for to appease the poor immigrants.