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

You mentioned OWNED homes which is what i was responding to

We dont think we are the only ones Labour thought private renters were the only ones though. The petition during the 2015 election about these matters only included private renters

Hate to break it to you but yeah people renting flats privately can have that too. While paying a lot more money. I have no idea why council tenants think they’re the only ones that get mould and other property issues.

Im not against fire proofing but turning a place into a sweat box is bad for health It was 41c in here.

Heat stroke isnt feeling just a little hot and sweaty It can kill

Hate to break it to you but yeah people renting flats privately can have that too. While paying a lot more money. I have no idea why council tenants think they’re the only ones that get mould and other property issues.

Ok it may as well be free at that point though. If you lived where I live you’d know what an extreme bargain that is. This man is in his fifties he spent most of his adulthood taking drugs and drinking he’s barely worked his whole life. Now he has his own little place for less than 100 a week which is paid by UC. Can also tell you’ve never private rented or had a mortgage or you’d know how easy you have it.
Hard working young families bust their balls every month to pay their private rent or mortgage just to see on facebook council tenants swapping their super cheap homes like Pokémon cards and demanding the council fix the hole their son punched in the wall.

Oh no how dare the council fire proof your home between other flats 🤦‍♀️

Gosh yes because owned homes are forced to have black cladding window restrictors and a front door thats a fire door with no gaps so no ventilation And someone also turned up at yours with no notice and felled a tree that was providing shading because they couldnt be bothered to come back and trim branches once in a blue moon

Yep its the same 🙄

Why would home owners be on a home swapper fb group

Gosh yes because owned homes are forced to have black cladding window restrictors and a front door thats a fire door with no gaps so no ventilation And someone also turned up at yours with no notice and felled a tree that was providing shading because they couldnt be bothered to come back and trim branches once in a blue moon

Yep its the same 🙄

Ok it may as well be free at that point though. If you lived where I live you’d know what an extreme bargain that is. This man is in his fifties he spent most of his adulthood taking drugs and drinking he’s barely worked his whole life. Now he has his own little place for less than 100 a week which is paid by UC. Can also tell you’ve never private rented or had a mortgage or you’d know how easy you have it.
Hard working young families bust their balls every month to pay their private rent or mortgage just to see on facebook council tenants swapping their super cheap homes like Pokémon cards and demanding the council fix the hole their son punched in the wall.

You think private rented and owned homes didn’t get hot this summer too 😂😂
All while paying three to four times as much money as that.

A social housing flat in the south east Well if his flat gets up to the temps that mine does he will have paid for it in pure sweat this summer as well as the £100

You gave the rent amount. You've proved that housing is not free by telling us it's £100 a week.

As I said:

Would you say this is free:
man I know in his fifties unemployed (long term) actually has his own council flat despite being single and childless (surprise surprise for the people who think single men don’t get council homes) his rent is straight up less than £100 a week (so less than £400 a month) we live in the south east btw.
And universal credit pays that for him.
No health issues btw

That’s free in every way except on paper. Can tell you’ve never had a mortgage or private rented or even considered either of those if you think less than 400 a month rent (in the south east) is in anyway a big deal 👌🏻

As I said:

Would you say this is free:
man I know in his fifties unemployed (long term) actually has his own council flat despite being single and childless (surprise surprise for the people who think single men don’t get council homes) his rent is straight up less than £100 a week (so less than £400 a month) we live in the south east btw.
And universal credit pays that for him.
No health issues btw

That’s free in every way except on paper. Can tell you’ve never had a mortgage or private rented or even considered either of those if you think less than 400 a month rent (in the south east) is in anyway a big deal 👌🏻

No such thing as free housing.

I think everyone should be responsible for their own place exceptions being young people who’ve just left foster care or disabled people with no family.
But if we are going to have council houses of course people with kids will be prioritised because kids are more vulnerable than adults. Being homeless by yourself is a different league from being homeless while having little kids to look after it dosent take much imagination to know that.
The sheer entitlement of demanding a free place as an able bodied individual with no dependents.

its not free

Yes but a homeless mother with two kids would have the added worry that something like that could happen to her kids.

I think everyone should be responsible for their own place exceptions being young people who’ve just left foster care or disabled people with no family.
But if we are going to have council houses of course people with kids will be prioritised because kids are more vulnerable than adults. Being homeless by yourself is a different league from being homeless while having little kids to look after it dosent take much imagination to know that.
The sheer entitlement of demanding a free place as an able bodied individual with no dependents.

Would you say this is free:
man I know in his fifties unemployed (long term) actually has his own council flat despite being single and childless (surprise surprise for the people who think single men don’t get council homes) his rent is straight up less than £100 a week (so less than £400 a month) we live in the south east btw.
And universal credit pays that for him.

No health issues btw

So you DO think people deserve less just because they dont have living proof that they have had sex without contraception.

So you DO think people deserve less just because they dont have living proof that they have had sex without contraception.

Yeah they should that’s right. But I went on to say especially people who don’t have kids or disabilities or care leavers. Absolutely no excuses there. But still all I see is grown men claiming it’s unfair all the teen mums get council houses (we don’t) and they should get one too.

Absolutely no excuse for Richard age 43 to go get a job and buy or rent his own place.