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

You don’t need to clarify anything, we’ve been talking to each other on here for about three maybe four pages now and I’ve said everything I think. Idk why you’re asking me to clarify anything.

I’ve said I personally think everyone should be responsible for getting their own place whether renting privately or buying one. I just think social housing should be for disabled people and young adults that are leaving foster care.

But if we are going to have it for other groups OF COURSE people with kids will be prioritised over childless people because kids are so vulnerable. And I’m saying this as someone who’s NEVER lived in social housing my whole adult life and I had kids really young.

Just use your brain why should an able bodied adult with no kids get a place given to them for practically nothing by the government ?

so just to clarify you dont think those without kids should get social housing at all

I wasn’t going to say anything about fruit picking, these threads are usually just single childless people hating on teen mums for “stealing” the council homes when A. Not every teen mum gets a council home. B. Why do you even demand a home from the government when you have no kids, no disability, not a care leaver. Just get a job and buy or rent your own home

Why does 43 year old Robert’s go online demanding a free home and blaming young mothers for “stealing” them all.

Theres your rant from me that has nothing to do with what you said but i just felt like saying

Yes that was me Like i said pre empting the tirade

In other words i knew where it was going These threads are very predictable.

More to the point, since when did national government get to set social housing policies - that’s always been a matter for local councils. Do they intend to run a centralised state?

This is the weird and irrelevant posting style people are talking about.

Dh and i lived in a bedsit in the very early 90s The bedroom doubled as the living room

I think you’re the one who can’t think critically, she said a disabled person should be more entitled to the 1 bed flat than an able bodied single person with no specific needs, not that every single disabled person should be housed inappropriately 🤦‍♀️

Not all disabled people use a mobility scooter, not all disabled people would struggle in a one bed. Your comments are very reaching and you’re quick to rant about things whether or not they’ve even been said.

Yeah there was a whole essay on fruit picking earlier. Think it was the same poster

Yeah I didn’t mean that in a bad way, I’m not rich and I don’t have a rich circle a lot of my family members and friends live in studio flats or one room in a shared house. So to me a one bedroom flat isn’t the smallest thing in the world

I think you’re the one who can’t think critically, she said a disabled person should be more entitled to the 1 bed flat than an able bodied single person with no specific needs, not that every single disabled person should be housed inappropriately 🤦‍♀️

Not all disabled people use a mobility scooter, not all disabled people would struggle in a one bed. Your comments are very reaching and you’re quick to rant about things whether or not they’ve even been said.

You said disabled people should get little one bedroom flats Dont blame me because you cant think critically

You said disabled people should get little one bedroom flats Dont blame me because you cant think critically

I’m not sure why you’re trying to make out like I said something bad about disabled people when I’ve literally said they’re the ones who should be prioritised over able bodied adults. Guess you’re just going to twist whatever I say now and make out like I’m a bad hateful person

Oh im SOOO glad you brought up one bedroom flats and disabled ppl I think you might regret bringing it up though because it shows you have NO idea of disability My DH is 76 Twenty years ago he had a heart attack which left him with disabilities He also has COPD Now i will tell you what happens with disabilities when you live in a one bedroom flat. There is no where to store or charge disability aids like mobility scooters. DH had to store his in the communal hallway He STILL has the permission letters from the HA to do this. Then in November 2017 a "tort" notice appeared telling DH to get rid of his mobility scooter or they would destroy it. It was the new housing officers way of introducing himself!! Now i tried to discuss this with them calmly through the proper channels. Got nowhere so took to social media Then on the 14th December someone from the HA came round to discuss it (probably feared it might go viral over Christmas when the office was closed) Plus they could have done this in the first place. Its not a tower block Its a block of FOUR flats so he only would have had to knock on four doors to find out whose scooter it was. Upshot was DH got a scooter shed to store and charge it in WHICH HE PAYS FOR INCLUDING INSURANCE and hes happy to do so.
A friend of mine who is now disabled cos hes spent too long on a NHS waiting list also lives in a one bedroom flat He asked about having somewhere to store and charge a mobility scooter and has been told NO!
So needing more room isnt always about kids. Which is a choice Disability isnt
Some of the people who died in Grenfell were disabled tenants in flats on higher floors

I originally brung him up because people always accuse teen mums of stealing all the council homes (I had my first at 16 and I privately rent so it irks me) then they bemoan single men with no kids (or single people in general) not getting given their god given entitlement from the council of an entire home.
Well here’s a middle aged man with no kids who was given a council flat. He’s spent the majority of his early adult life drinking and drugging!* The reason people with kids get priority is because kids are more vulnerable than adults and there’s no reason an able bodied adult can’t get a job and buy/rent their own property!
Those little one bed council properties would be better served given to young adults leaving foster care or disabled people. Why does everyone think being given an entire property for doing nothing is their god given right anyway?

*He's actually a nice guy but the point still stands

I originally brung him up because people always accuse teen mums of stealing all the council homes (I had my first at 16 and I privately rent so it irks me) then they bemoan single men with no kids (or single people in general) not getting given their god given entitlement from the council of an entire home.
Well here’s a middle aged man with no kids who was given a council flat. He’s spent the majority of his early adult life drinking and drugging!* The reason people with kids get priority is because kids are more vulnerable than adults and there’s no reason an able bodied adult can’t get a job and buy/rent their own property!
Those little one bed council properties would be better served given to young adults leaving foster care or disabled people. Why does everyone think being given an entire property for doing nothing is their god given right anyway?

*He's actually a nice guy but the point still stands

Well he's not hurting anyone, is he? It's not like a one bedroom flat is suitable for a family with children so he's depriving them. It was built for a single person, and he's a single person.
Average SH rent in SE for a one bed flat is £480 to £585, so if he told you his rent a while back that's about right.

But single people need to live somewhere and are better suited to one beds than families of 2+ people.

Well he's not hurting anyone, is he? It's not like a one bedroom flat is suitable for a family with children so he's depriving them. It was built for a single person, and he's a single person.
Average SH rent in SE for a one bed flat is £480 to £585, so if he told you his rent a while back that's about right.

she very likely does have a mortgage or private rent. It’s a minority of people who don’t.

i agree with this poster and im a home owner, no one in my family has ever rented