2007-01-08 22:58:38 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Don't start me off
2007-01-08 23:03:26 · answer #1 · answered by cliffhanger 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you have ever seen any council estate anywhere in the country, you will surely have seen that there are English people there in large numbers. Councils have a duty to help anyone according to their level of need; because council housing has been sold off under right to buy (a good thing), but they weren't allowed to spend th money on new housing, there are long waiting lists. Nowadays, more new accommodation is provided through housing associations, that sometimes have their own rules about who to accept.
The Home Office provides accommodation separate from council housing, usually very basic in hard-to-let areas; if their claims are accepted, instead of being allowed to stay on, they are evicted, which puts a lot of pressure on council homelessness services. Of course, if they are refused, they are evicted and cannot get any further help from anyone.
2007-01-09 00:07:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
First go to your local housing office, you must do this on a day when they have English spoken, if you go on a non English speaking day and ask for an English speaker you will be thrown out as a racist.
If you go on the right day and cannot understand the foreigner with the thick accent and ridiculously poor English do not ask for an interpreter or you will be thrown out as a racist.
If you point out that your family have been here for 1000 years and you and your ancestors have built this country and paid taxes for years, and you think those who have contributed to the country should have first call on socail housing you will be thrown out as a racist.
If you ask why a family from a country with no historical links to the UK , with a different culture and language, who's fathers were killed your fathers 60 years ago on behalf of their Nazi paymasters, are given preference over UK citizens you will be thrown out as a racist.
Then you will be told that you are the lucky ones, not those who walk in from nowhere get free medical care, money, schooling, housing, grants and a host of other benefits not available to the UK citizens who pay for them. After all you have the privilege of being British.
Ouch , sorry i just thumped the wall.
2007-01-09 00:25:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
well,as the bloody immigrants seem to come over here with their 5 kids and a wife in tow,they get all the council houses,and the people who where actually born in this country,get whats left.That's the long and of it.
2007-01-12 08:31:53 · answer #4 · answered by pinkydinkydoo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can only get housing if you are entitled to have access to public funds. This is test with the Habitual Residency Test, to see how long you have lived here, how you have contributed, what you have done to settle down. You will also be tested to see how you found yourself in the situation you are! After all, as an adult you are supposed to take care of yourself and to have organised work and accommodation before coming over.
2007-01-09 00:42:40 · answer #5 · answered by Stef 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it's called council housing. If your income is not enough to support you or you are not earning and have not got a place to live you can apply for a place to live. It takes a while and you have a lot of forms to fill in and stuff, but they so try to help.
2007-01-08 23:07:51 · answer #6 · answered by giles_murphy 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes! The problem is that immigrants such as asylum seekers have no rights to work and that's why they need help until their applications to the Home Office are decided. What's the excuse for the Britons?To lazy to start job?
2007-01-09 05:49:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. When i was first pregnant with my daughter (who is now a month old), me and my partner were living in a one bedroomed flat on the second floor with no lift. I applied to the housing because obviously we needed somewhere bigger. we were told we had minimum points and would be put on the list but would have to wait two - three years. A polish couple lived next door to us and applied (no kids or anything) and got a 3 bedroom house in 2 months.
2007-01-08 23:07:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Not Likely
2007-01-08 23:03:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What council ?
Are you not means tested for need before any govt assistance is given ?
Why not contact them ?
2007-01-08 23:04:08 · answer #10 · answered by Limebird 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
they help a little ,notvery much....but for the immigrants it's special treatment time as the council think their special!
2007-01-10 04:44:00 · answer #11 · answered by azman5998 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋