To think segregation In new build estates needs to stop!

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I live on a new build estate built about a year ago, 15% of the 500 homes are social housing.

The biggest problem we have on the estate is parking, the parking spaces are not allocated, it is generally considered that you park in a space near your home. I could not find a space near my home (social housing) so I parked on the private part of the estate and walked.

So I go to take dc to school the other day and a women rushes out saying I stole her space. I explained that parking spaces were not allocated and that she as am I are free to park anywhere. She then started ranting about how she works to pay for my house and called me council estate scum (infront of dc). I stated crying after I dropped dc off.

The next issue is that the residents association is generally hostile to the social tennants. I went to a meeting and could feel the hostility after I said my road.

We are constantly blamed for any crime on the estate because many in social housing including me have teenagers when the private homes tend to be 50+ .

I don't want to live in a community that has segregation (we are pretty much separate to the other homes apart from by the road). I don't know why because you pay £250,000 plus for a house you deserve to be treated better (or look down on others)

Aibu?

I'm Sorry about the long post I just feel very upset .

For a start report shouty lady for harrassment and intimidating behaviour.

She'll be a tad less snug with an ASBO stapled to her forehead.

King : Could she really get an ASBO for that . I will report her then.

Oh what a complete arsehole of a woman how dare she say that to you continue parking where there is space to park and the next time if she says anything tell her to fuck off call the housing associatiion withher complaint

YANBU but there's little you can do about your particular estate.

Well, doesn't she sound absolutely delightful?! YANBU at all. Snobbery is so unbecoming.

Not just for that, no. But log it with the police.

She made you cry FFS!!

That woman was horrid and the attitudes are awful, you are correct that it is reinforcing such attitudes to create 'ghettos' of social housing in new estates. I am not sure I have helpful advice but op

'King : Could she really get an ASBO for that shock. I will report her then.'

No. You have to do more than that to get to ASBO stage, but you can report her.

I agree with you OP there is very much a feeling of segregation where I live too. We rent privately although no one knows that because its nobody's business. I have had friendly warnings about my dc playing with the kids from xx Green. I just say that's great nobody should be left out.

Tbh the segregation is due to the housebuilders they grudgingly sometimes give over land

Awful lady but do the private houses have allocated parking? It might be different to the social housing provision

It's part of the conditions developers have to agree to before they can build anything. We're living in a very them and us society at the moment. The current government is also doing everything that it can to stigmatise poor people and people who need any help whatsoever. It doesn't help that a great proportion of them have inherited millions, but hey.

It wouldn't surprise me if most of the expensive occupants are also members of the housing association and the woman's attitude is the prevailing one. Reading the Daily Hate every day (and voting ukip) will do that to a person. Park there regularly. Video her next time she has a dumb outburst and invite her to a Socialist Workers Party meeting to discuss the valid points that she has raised about social housing. If she and the residents assoc don't want to go, you can tell them that the workers would be glad to come to them...

Dora mainly conservative boards here and a few ukip, I have no idea what newspaper is the most popular.

There's a reasonably new estate near me

Couldn't tell you which ones are the social housing properties and which are private -they are spread out across the estate

18years the social housing here is on a corner of the estate that is separate apart from a road.
That estate layout sounds much better.

My sister lives in one of 2 privately owned blocks of newbuild flats. There are 3 social housing blocks on the site too. The state of the social housing blocks is unbelievable. They just don't give a shit.

That's shocking behaviour. I live in a similar setting and all residents both private and council are allocated one parking space each it makes a lot more sense this way

Where I live the developers chuck cash at the council in place of building social housing. The council then buy back the original council houses that got sold off cheap under right to buy at a greatly inflated price

You should report any kind of verbal and anti social behaviour.
And ime the worst offenders ade the older more "respectable" home owners.

I thought the point of mixing the housing was to have the social and private housing mixed together, so there was no risk of presumed "ghetto" areas or just this kind of treatment as nobody really knows which is privately owned and which is social housing.

Sorry to hear you were spoken to like that and infront of your dc
Awful

Trouble is though, the one or two shitty families make it crap for everyone. You don't notice the nice normal people just doing their thing but you do remember the loud/ abusive/ dirty whatever family and that forms people's impressions of social tenants.
Friends are moving from their new house because of the social housing tenants. In reality it's probably two or three families out of forty odd flats.