Oh FFS this old chestnut again! 🙄 I wondered how long it would be before someone who is bitter and angry that they don't have social housing, would come out with this predictable and tired piece of guff.
Where on earth are these people who you intend on booting out of their social housing supposed to go? Do you want THEM to have to pay £900-£1100 a month for a little cramped 1-bed flat, while you and your kids (or your daughter and kids - or whoever you believe DESERVES IT MORE) has their 'large 4-bed house?'
If YOU are given their house, will YOU give it up in 15 years time when YOUR kids have left? Will you heck as like!
We need MORE SOCIAL HOUSING, not to throw people out who are in it. This is the most ridiculous thing anyone says on here, genuinely. On every single thread about renters, homeowners, and social housing, someone comes along and says 'waahhh !!! It's SO not fair people have social housing for life!'
Well it is actually. Just because YOU don't have it doesn't mean others should give it up. The vast majority of people in social housing would not be able to get a mortgage or afford their own repairs, or afford private rent. Many are elderly, disabled, and single parent families, and some people on a flat in their own.
Their life isn't laden with riches beyond their wildest dreams, but they are coping. If we were to boot them out on the streets, (as people like YOU would like to do,) they would NOT be able to cope, and would go under financially... And as I said, where the fuck are they meant to go?
Very VERY few people in social housing are on loads of money, and they never have been, and never will be. They wouldn't have been allocated it in the first place if that was the case! You have to be on low income to qualify for a social housing property! (Total household income £25,000 around where I live!)
I know someone will come on and tell me about Dave and Diane who live down the road who have a new car each, and a holiday abroad every 3 months, 'even though they're in a council house,' but this type of example is few and far between. Most people in social housing are getting by at best, not loaded! Most will have a car 7-10 years old or older.
I don't necessarily think it's great that someone is occupying a 4 bed house when they are there alone, but this is their HOME, they would have occupied it with children for 30-40 years or more, and will very likely have grandchildren there/be looking after grandchildren, and they won't be there for much longer, because of their age!
Resenting someone staying in the home they have raised their family in, and spent their whole life and possibly 40-50+ years of marriage in, and want to die happy in, (and wanting them throwing out on the streets so YOU can have their house,) is really quite a despicable attitude.
My work colleague's great aunt is in a 4 bed house, and she has only been alone in it for 3 or 4 years (had 3+ people there for 40 years prior to that,) and her younger family members are mithering her to give it up. But she says until they offer her a nice bungalow, close to where she lives now, with the same lifelong tenancy, they can fuck off. Too right too. The nice bungalows in her area are like gold dust, so she won't be moving any time soon.
Another lady I know is in a 3 bed home alone after losing her husband of 55 years last summer. She won't budge an inch, ever, even if they offered her a bungalow next door. 'It's my HOME, and has been for 53 years' she said. Again, too right!
You are angry and bitter towards the wrong people. Start a Government petition for more social housing. Don't post scathing posts on public message forums about how people should be thrown out of their social housing property to suit YOU. It's never going to happen anyway, so deal with it!