to think this man typifies many in the under 35s generation

[marryj]

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/545217/Man-poor-cannot-feed-himself-redundancy

Listen to the radio call above, was from lbc yesterday.

Man 35, spends all his time looking for work and lives of a tin of pasta hoops some days.

So many here truely believe that the younger generation can't be bothered to work and things are no harder than it was for them. I'm noticing it more and more in my area, the number of young british men that are homless has grown significantly. These seem to be the ones that are really falling through the system.

Anyway please listen to the call if your one of the people here that keeps calling all the young workshy and feckless.

I can imagine that living in a house share in your late 30s is fine if you're saving for a deposit, because you're still looking to the next stage of your life. Perhaps not if there is no spare money to save and there never will be, and you know that you will be living in house shares in your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

Not that this is just about house shares, of course. It is another symptom of single people being at the bottom of the pile, as I can't imagine a single man in his 30s would ever get anywhere near the top of the waiting list for social housing.

Yes, I do take on board that it is not something anyone would want to do indefinitely, without hope of improvement.

Young single white unemployed men are massively marginalised and people tend to blame the individual for being unemployed rather than structural factors. Men alone are very common look around a wetherspoons or neros

There's plenty wrong with living in a house share at any point. One of the main reasons I moved into a one bed was the problems I'd had and heard of others having with previous housemates.

I had one default on the rent.
One who stole from me. (Food, cash, toiletries etc etc which is really upsetting when you have no money to buy more)
Numerous people who didn't pay their share if the bills.
People who were inconsiderate and selfish and kept me awake at night when i had to work long and irregular hours.
People who kept forgetting to lock the front door
People who used my things and damaged them.
People with truly awful standards of cleaning and hygiene. (One housemate vomited all over the bathroom then went out to carry on partying. I don't mean a teenager either. There was crusted vomit everywhere.

It's not unreasonable to not want to live in a houseshare. In some ways it brings financial peace of mind as you are only responsible for yourself and your share of bills if you live in a one bed.

I think house shares are fine- if there are enough of them in the area you live in, and if the other people sharing them are sane, reasonable, trust worthy individuals, preferably people personally known to you before you decide to live with them.

Sadly, I suspect they will not always be. And some people will have traumatizing bad experiences in that situation, ranging from bullying to rape.

I think young people are being treated very, very badly. in many areas there is very little or no work, and in many more there is no work that adequately covers the cost of living in that area. It is one thing to ask people to forego luxuries whilst unemployed due to no fault of their own. it is another to ask them to forego necessities like a roof over their heads where they are safe from physical, emotional or mental abuse, adequate food supplies, or the respect of their fellow human beings.

But this is what is rountinely asked of young people, and I think it is a crying shame that this country should hang it's head about.

It's one thing being young & living in a house share full of naice mc children of good families after uni, where everyone is out at work all day.

It's another thing being in a house share as an unemployed adult, with less... savoury people about, all piled into a 6 bed Victorian terrace with 1 bathroom and 1 kitchen and no living room, because you are under 35 & it's deemed to be fine even though no one has a job so all home all day. At risk of God knows what from God knows who, because 5 other people have the front door key and they all have mates.

Particularly frightening if you were previously working and living on your own. My greatest fear is losing my job in the next 10 years or so and being forced into one of those places by financial pressure. Not to mention the fact that realistically you will never get all your rent covered wherever you live = desperate people.