True medic. Where I live half the council houses have been sold to Right to Buy people, who then sell them on to landlords, who then rent them to the very families that previously would have been allocated them as council houses, except at twice the rent and none of the security.
Council housing used to be just cheap housing for anyone. My GP's lived in a council house, and back before right to buy, so did lots of perfectly ordinary families, who didn't have to prove a "medical need", or domestic violence. It was just where you lived when you didn't have a really well paid job. No big deal.
Now that the Tories purposefully sold off most of the housing, they are going after the poor sods who are still clinging on, and making their lives as miserable as possible, rather than saying "we fucked up. Lets build a shit load more family houses right now"
Also, there is this attitude now that living by living in social housing the tenant somehow gives permission to be treated as less than human. It is a human need for most people, especially when they have kids, to have secure home.
As someone who is about to be made homeless, can I also point out that
just because you rent a place doesn't mean it's not your home. I have paid THOUSANDS A YEAR to landlords over the years, and I have spent further hundreds and hundreds on paint, curtains, rugs, plants-all things I can't take with me. My child is about to lose the room he loves, and the friends he has on our street, and move for the 4th time in his young life.
Oh, and MelonadeAgain; some might say that you come across as a bit of a cunt. Not me though, I would never be that impolite.