Should housing associations be given a quota?

Question

Of homes that have to be allocated to people that work for a living?
Someone just asked a question on council housing. Where i live you only qualify for council/housing association tennancies if you are on full benefits or if you can't afford to pay their own rent. If there is one earner in the household or two on minimuum wage then you can forget it.
Why should someone that works not have a fair chance of getting a decent place to rent and some long term security in their lives? At the rate house prices are going my daughter will probably decide to emigrate before she can think of affording to buy a house by the time she is old enough.(she is only 3.5 but she will need to live somewhere one day and no houses are being built other than the private sector!)

Answer 1

How right you are! My son is trying to find affordable housing,I went with him to register with a local housing association.The housing officer looked at as like we were mad when we said he had a full time job,no convictions,no social worker,no drug problem and gasp shock horror,no mental health issues.Apparently,if he could tick a few more boxes he would be in. I don't think being white English helped much either. So what does this say about housing associations? That their estates are basically dumping grounds for undesirables,nice! How insulted would you be to be offered a tenancy!

Answer 2

The days of cheap rentals for people who can otherwise afford to put a roof over their heads are long gone.
Housing associations are there to help those who would otherwise be homeless.
It would be wrong to provide housing to someone who can pay rent elsewhere when people in need are left with nowhere to live.
It might not be what you like but that's the result of Mrs Thatcher's "Right to buy" policy which took so many public homes into the private sector in the 1980's. Unless a majority of voters care enough to make this an election issue polititians will do nothing to make good quality, low cost housing available for working people.

Answer 3

Yes- absolutely spot on, commonsense view.

The current Socialist-by-stealth welfare-state of benefit oriented first-preference for immigrants and asylum seekers is absolutely ruining any work ethic for future generations.

Furthermore, it does a disservice to the immigrant too as they are educated to have no work ethic or concept of social obligation for their gracious host- who had no obligation to accept them.

It is tragic in the extreme that young people are seriously considering emigration to improve their lives- as their own nation no longer loves them, values them or even caters for any of the indigenous populations needs.

The Conservative and Labour party share a common policy of greater integration with the EU toward full inclusion, whereby British-born will no longer have equal access to the housing market and indeed will be priced out of any British house title- a disgraceful situation for someone born in a country to be effectively denied the right to land ownership.

Perhaps, sadly, emigration is the answer to her problem- Northern Ireland & Ireland are but a short flight away- some very nice houses there. Northern Ireland is very welcoming of British- a lot of the problems have well and truly died down (and they only confined to a few very small areas to begin with).

Long-term I most respectfully suggest you seriously reconsider your political vote and perhaps vote for a party other than those that will treat the working British person as a second-class citizen within their native land.
I know I will do so- and most proudly vote BNP.

Answer 4

You might be on to something. Yea something needs to be done about housing. How about all these empty houses you see that are tied up in escrow and such. I think it's an outrage.

Answer 5

no, the supply should be unlimited and affordable

Answer 6

no they should not