BBC show broke

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The program shows how people are struggling financially. One father and son ( grown up ) are living in a tent . They were offered only one chance of accommodation In a shelter, and that is in another city miles away . Totally understand that accommodation is limited but surely they should be offered something near where they live ?

I suppose they're offered whatever is available. Services are stretched and accommodation is thin on the ground. It might have been different if there was a child involved but maybe not. This is only going to get worse with the current shower of shit in power.

I’m sure where I am it’s 3 options you get. It’s down south ( Hastings ) so maybe that’s why - just not enough shelters or bedsit

There are no "shelters" in Hastings in summer, there is a winter one. Temporary accommodation very limited. Bedsits, even more so.

The council next door to Hastings (Rother) actually has no emergency accommodation in the area at all (they may have started working on that) and got a chewing out from the local government ombudsman for it. Putting people up in hotels 20 or 30 miles away at best.

A friend's relative lives in London. She's heavily pregnant and was offered a place nearly 200 miles away from friends and family. They said they'll take her off the list if she declines it. She's got a son in school and a younger child.

It made the local papers. www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/hackney-council-tells-pregnant-mum-to-move-to-staffordshire-1-6055199

If they don't have the stock where they live then they can't magic it up. Long gone are the days of getting council housing at all in some areas, at best maybe a private let somewhere. Take it or leave it!

Sorry but no one is entitled via the council to live in London just because they grew up there any more than a person from Cornwall is or any other place.

Sorry but no one is entitled via the council to live in London just because they grew up there any more than a person from Cornwall is or any other place

Entitled, probably not. However, it makes far more practical sense, especially in the long term. Keeping a person within the area they know could mean they still have support of family, friends and the community they know. It could mean the difference between being able to get or keep a job for example, if you’re relying on that support for childcare (at least in the short term). It also has a big effect on a person’s mental well-being, something else that is a huge problem in this country at the moment.

Moving a person 200 miles away from everyone and everything they know isn’t practically or economically for the best.

That story is awful Rudeabaga. I'm in Hackney and got rehoused by the council when I was pregnant and made homeless due to DV. I am disabled too and that helped our application, as I got help from social services and my NHS consultant because I needed to be in a certain part of Hackney to continue receiving treatment. The estate we live on is rough but we have a secure tenancy and that's been so important for our stability. This was back in 2015, and I'd heard they'd changed their policy since then. I would have been lost without the support from my mum and sisters nearby.

Sunnydays - I didn’t see the programme but did they work? If they are two adult males it’s not the same as a single parent who may have very limited choices. Surely even if they both had minimum wage jobs they could afford to privately rent a studio apartment?

I watched this programme and I cried my eyes out on the second episode.

With that young boy being only 17, on 0 hour contract at McDonald's! Both his friends (Tom and Steve) who allowed him to stay at theirs for free. They're moving to London and said obviously the 17 year old can no longer stay where they are, but have said he can go with them to London and that whatever happens, they'll look after him and make sure he is cared for.

That is exactly what loyalty and having real friends means

I hope his mum wasn't at home when he shouted goodbye and I love you through the letterbox (cos nobody answered the door). If she was there, then she should be ashamed of herself for turning her back on her own son! No matter what, he is YOUR SON!

Surely even if they both had minimum wage jobs they could afford to privately rent a studio apartment?

Using what for a deposit? Buttons?

And an address and references?

It's not so easy...

Think everyone that doubts that people live in poverty in the uk, should be made to watch this programme. It was so so sad. People who are working like dogs and have literally nothing to show for it.