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Post by ARENA on Jan 11, 2018 9:58:12 GMT
CHRISTMAS wouldn’t be Christmas without another rise in the number of children living in temporary accommodation. Sure enough, figures published last week show that 61,000 homeless families with 121,000 children lacked a permanent home in England at the end of September.
The total is up 6 percent on last year and 62 percent since 2010. Around 70 percent of them are in London, but the problem is spreading and the numbers outside the capital have now doubled since 2010. None of these figures includes the 384 Grenfell households in temporary accommodation at the time.
“Temporary” in this context can mean long-term (in a recent debate, MPs cited examples of constituents living in temporary homes for up to 18 years) but also very short-term. The number of families in bed and breakfast hotels has quadrupled since 2010. B&B in this context means living in accommodation that is not self-contained, and sharing bathroom and cooking facilities.
(Private Eye)
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Post by starlilolill on Jan 11, 2018 11:49:09 GMT
A sad indictment of the so called rich country we are told we are.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2018 14:48:48 GMT
Could it be anything to do with the stressful Christmas time leading to domestic arguments and family breakdowns, the highest time of the year I beleive
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Post by starlilolill on Jan 12, 2018 12:21:52 GMT
Bryan do you ever think before you post? This crisis has been building over many years and you blame Christmas! Unbelievable!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2018 17:08:10 GMT
Bryan do you ever think before you post? This crisis has been building over many years and you blame Christmas! Unbelievable! The post referred to the figures at Christmas, I suggest that you read all the posts before you comment
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Post by goldelox on Jan 13, 2018 9:03:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2018 9:27:32 GMT
Crisis is hardly an independent organisation, their statistics are more likely to lean towards supporting themselves. I used to support Crisis but they peed me off with constant demands for more donations Having said that I note from their link "The increase in statutory homelessness is partly attributed to the sharply rising numbers made homeless from the private rented sector, with relevant cases having almost quadrupled over the period – from less than 5,000 to almost 18,000. As a proportion of all statutory homelessness acceptances, such cases had consequentially risen from 11% to 31 per cent since 2009/10" and ask myself how likely is this. Why would landlords turf tenants out, but like cutting your nose off etc. It's not as if those landlords could sell the property, the market is stagnant or falling. Is their a queue of prospective tenants?. Perhaps the evicted tenants were in rent arrears or failed to look after the property
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Post by aubrey on Jan 13, 2018 10:23:54 GMT
Crisis is hardly an independent organisation, their statistics are more likely to lean towards supporting themselves. I used to support Crisis but they peed me off with constant demands for more donations Having said that I note from their link "The increase in statutory homelessness is partly attributed to the sharply rising numbers made homeless from the private rented sector, with relevant cases having almost quadrupled over the period – from less than 5,000 to almost 18,000. As a proportion of all statutory homelessness acceptances, such cases had consequentially risen from 11% to 31 per cent since 2009/10" and ask myself how likely is this. Why would landlords turf tenants out, but like cutting your nose off etc. It's not as if those landlords could sell the property, the market is stagnant or falling. Is their a queue of prospective tenants?. Perhaps the evicted tenants were in rent arrears or failed to look after the property Universal Credit payments being 6 weeks in arrears: landlords can always get another tenant.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2018 11:08:11 GMT
Crisis is hardly an independent organisation, their statistics are more likely to lean towards supporting themselves. I used to support Crisis but they peed me off with constant demands for more donations Having said that I note from their link "The increase in statutory homelessness is partly attributed to the sharply rising numbers made homeless from the private rented sector, with relevant cases having almost quadrupled over the period – from less than 5,000 to almost 18,000. As a proportion of all statutory homelessness acceptances, such cases had consequentially risen from 11% to 31 per cent since 2009/10" and ask myself how likely is this. Why would landlords turf tenants out, but like cutting your nose off etc. It's not as if those landlords could sell the property, the market is stagnant or falling. Is their a queue of prospective tenants?. Perhaps the evicted tenants were in rent arrears or failed to look after the property Universal Credit payments being 6 weeks in arrears: landlords can always get another tenant. But that argument falls down because most tenants seem to get help with rent/community charge payments so presumably the "another tenant" has to wait a further six weeks. I know that there was a big rush in buy to rent mortgages and those landlords I suppose need the rent to pay that mortgage but surely they would have a sum in the bank for "just in case" situations or are all their budgets that tight. And of course the cheap mortgages are no more as interest rates rise
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Post by aubrey on Jan 13, 2018 11:37:22 GMT
There are always people who can pay.
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Post by starlilolill on Jan 13, 2018 11:49:41 GMT
Our son and family were in private rented accommodation in London paying an exorbitant rent (in my eyes!) and were due an increase in said rent. They were relocating (promotion) so it didn't impact on them. If they had been staying in London they couldn't have afforded to stay in their flat, a flat that had many problems including damp, so they would have had to find a cheaper, and probably one with more problems.
The problems of homelessness and poor accommodation are huge and need to be addressed ASAP.
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