young people with a new baby should get council flat, what chance do young people getting a morgage
2006-11-06 23:37:21 · 20 answers · asked by MARK P 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Sorry, but I don't know what a 'council flat' is. But I will say that young people should use birth control to prevent themselves from becoming pregnant in the first place if they aren't ready to have children.
2006-11-06 23:39:57 · answer #1 · answered by Just me. 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No I don’t think that any young person whether they come from a poor area or not should get a council flat. Life is hard for everyone and if you make it that if you are young and you have a new baby you will get a flat. Then young people will be having babies left right and centre. I think that if you are young having a child should be the last thing on your mind, unless you can of course support yourself and the child. Stay in school, go to college / Uni get a good job and then think about having a child. Some argue that it’s because teenagers get some many benefits and a council flat this is the reason for the high rates of pregnancy. Other say it’s because they want something to love and to give then unconditional love in that case get a dog or a cat it will cost a lot less
2006-11-07 08:02:20 · answer #2 · answered by Baps . 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Due to the age of consent people who get pregnant under the age of 16 should be fined and punished. Lots of people have sex before 16 but pregnancy is proof. I work hard for a living and cant get any help with housing and have had to take on a flat share just to keep a roof over my head. This flat is privately rented as there are no council properties available and not cheap I might add. Ithen have to pay taxes which goes to some young mother to feed her baby and pay for her lazy down and out chav boyfriends cannabis habbit. Most of these people also have top of the range electronics and brand new trainers. Oh yeah and the kid is probably called Josh or Callum.
2006-11-07 08:02:21 · answer #3 · answered by delwyn h 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well we live in a poor area but have never had help off the coucil and took out a mortgage to buy our house. We both worked (not high wages) and beleived this was the right thing to do.
When I was 3 months pregnant I had to stop work due to health problems, and at the same time my partner had his hours cut at work. As a result we coulnd't keep up the mortgage payments and were threatened with repossession and being evicted.
We went to see the council (I was 6 months pregnant at the time) and were told that they regard mortgage repossession to be "intentional" homelessness (even if you can't afford to pay) and they would not help us. They'd give us 6 weeks "emergency accomodation" in a Bed and Breakfast whilst we tried to sort out private rented accomodation and that was all they would be willing to do for us. (Private rent is £500+ a month in my area - more than our mortgage was. Housing Benefit would have been useless as most private landlords won't accept tenants on Housing Benefit and we weren't on benefits to get a social fund loan to cover rent in advance or a bond.)
God knows what would have happened to our furniture and our pets.
Our house has negative equity and there's no chance of us getting a big pay out if was sold.
When I said that we couldn't afford to raise the bond, estate agents fee and rent in advance to privately rent and was afraid of being homeless and heavily pregnant the woman behind the desk just shrugged and said "tough" basically. Not their problem.
So that is how you are treated if you have tried to do the "right" thing and buy your own home but fall on hard times and are threatened with homelessness when you are pregnant.
Luckily the judge was sympathetic and we are managing to make the payments (struggling but with the help of family just about coping). But the threat of homelessness hangs over our head all the time. But the council have told us they don't care.
On the other hand I know teen girls who get pregnant and move strtaight from their parent's house to their own flat/house.
I posted a topic about this before and was told by some complete *idiot* that the teen girls were much more entitled to a council house that someone who had lost their home through mortgage repossession as it was "our fault" for "bad planning". Oh and I take it getting pregnant at 16 when you have no job or place to live *isn't* bad planning? Sadly this is the sort of stupid ignorant attitude some people have.
2006-11-07 15:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not just poor areas where this happens. It is not as easy as it once used to be to get a flat. They now have to wait a long time before they get one. I don't think it is fair really but what is the solution? I know a lot of teenagers think having a baby is a way to get their own house and that's why they do it but there is no way of stopping it unless the Council say they won't provide one on those grounds but then what about the innocent child who has been born in to this?
2006-11-07 07:41:29 · answer #5 · answered by koolkatt 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you too want to live in a sh** area surrounded by drugs, theft and violence, in a house that often isn't heated or furnished with damp covering your walls and floor making your clothes rot - then go ahead and have a child. And no, I do not have a child or a council house but have known and do know people that live like this. The problem is lack of education for these young people, they follow in their parents footsteps. People get pregnant too young, they are not financially or mentally capable of bring up these children and history repeats it self over and over.
These people are essentially the 'underclass' and they have been around as long as every other class. As tempting as it is to throw them to the dogs - we just have to accept it.
2006-11-07 07:59:06 · answer #6 · answered by Sam 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No they should'nt, there is nothing within the Human Rights Act to state that a government has to house anyone, why should irresponsible people be rewarded for their lack of efforts in life?
There is enough education and information available to all people to enable people to prevent unwanted pregnancies and for those that chose to become pregnant, they should only do so when they can afford it and support themselves and their family. It is not a tax payers responsibility to pay a proportion of their taxes to help these people. The british system of housing and free handouts is an embarrassment, the Uk is the laughing stock of Europe on this one, in Spain, for example, benefits are only paid to a person for a short time, IF they have paid in in the first place, there is no such thing as council housing, and if a youngster falls pregnant, the family have to support them, not the state! It needs a radical hardline approach to benefits, get the lazy arses off their sofas and get them doing something for themselves, even many of those people on so called incapacity benefits, need to be shaken up, many of them are not incapacitated enough to stop them going to the bank cashpoint and the shops to spend the benefits, if they can do that, they can get to work! if a person has a bad back or legs, for example, there's work they can do with their heads and hands, call center work, for example...the benefits need to be shaken up and stopped for the vast majority, only looking after those that have paid in over their lifetime, the people over 65, they should be looked after properly bu the state, to reward them for their efforts...not these kids that leave school, get pregnant time and time again, and never do a days work
2006-11-07 07:53:48 · answer #7 · answered by SunnyDays 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is not just poor areas but others too, and it#s not that easy to get somewhere. I am not a young mother but have tried to get council housing for other reasons to no avail. The council advised me to actually get pregnant!!
2006-11-07 08:20:27 · answer #8 · answered by Little One 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, because you will have the same problem as in other social services, it will get abused , it would be very easy to have baby first and once you have a flat the hanger on boyfriend comes back , sorry if I am mean but you have to stop somewhere.
2006-11-07 08:11:24 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No not in all cases, depends on situation, such as income some people can afford rent etc but i do agree young people are finding hard to get on the property ladder
2006-11-07 08:06:07 · answer #10 · answered by JULIE S 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋