AIBU to question Reform's plan to prioritise married couples for social housing?

Two people WITHOUT kids will get a one bedroom FLAT not a house. DH and i got our flat in 1994 four years before we got married. We spent two years and three months before that in a bedsit
House indeed!

Oh i see he means couples with kids But like i said they have always qualified for a house. The childfree or childless dont

You are right, please accept my apologies. We all believe in Tice's 5 million money trees 💰

You are mistaken @TopPocketFind. This policy, like practically all their policies, will cost the taxpayer nothing. Not a penny.😇

Deputy leader Richard Tice has also set out plans to build 50,000 affordable social homes a year at a news conference, a policy which the party says will require no new taxes or borrowing.

Aye Richard.🤣🤣🤣

veterans are also at high risk of homelessness

They aren't. Everyone extrapolates from US data and philosophy and runs with it. Even the US has mostly put into place measures for dealing with their issue. If you correct for sex and age, veterans aren't more likely to be homeless in the UK.

As for prioritising married couples, as someone who has worked in social housing, fuck that. Fuck that all the way.

DV yes. But also single men. Because the way you stop a lot of DV is to house hobosexual violent men. So they don't glom onto single mums for housing.

I'd give up trying to expect logic or reasoning from Reform.

They're trying to protect conservative values of man and wife, family unit etc. It's just a way to try and reinforce traditional gender roles.

No because they’re pretend / wannabe MAGa Jesus loves married people don’t live in sin types

Reform thrive on cruelty and division.

They also do not want to end homelessness and rough sleeping.

And their policies cost a lot to fund.

What about unmarried couples? Or doesn't Reform count them as equal to married couples?

As with everything from Reform it's bonkers. OP, I'm confused why you would like think encouraging marriage is necessarily a good thing?

I would like everyone to have a house, I would like actually everyone to have two houses - a house to live in and a holiday house, ideally. However, there are no houses, literally, there is a housing crisis. I am private, semi-detached in horrible area (money spent by choice elsewhere). A wall is separating us from a council house with UK-born (they joke from Domesday Book) mum and dad, their two sons in their 40s, and one son's daughter (does not want to live with mum). A 2-bed house (they turned a living room into a bedroom). No availability of council houses for them - they have never in their lives been on benefits, they work in low paid jobs - bought the lies that 'all jobs are respectful, all jobs are worthy' - never been to uni.
So yes, yes, and yes - I would welcome British-born council house dwellers getting priority, always. And I have my own accommodation.

I don’t think single or couples should rank above the other, the latter is just stupid and the reality is the former does end up with couples half living together in order to keep their council house and benefits.

It’s madness as it just encourages people to have children.

I'm not convinced that's fair

Well of course not. It's Reform. They're very good at taking an issue of public interest (uncontrolled undocumented illegally arriving migrants; high welfare bill; lack of social housing; youth unemployment) winding people up with absurd claims and then proposing 'policies' that are largely unworkable and 'unfair'.

YABU for expecting any different.

It’s tosh- said people never get near the social housing register as in areas of high demand it will almost exclusively be people with disabilities, vulnerabilities and multiple children who willl secure social housing in the first please. In areas of London no one else has got near the top of the list in a decade.

they don’t even mention children- so we’d have a single mum of 4 in a hostel whilst a married couple take priority over the children?! Who would want to live in that world

Might just be because two people in a house is better use of the space than one person.