To be pissed off at housing tenants

[Pssedoffathis]

To be pissed off at this
We live in a nice area, there isnt much available to rent. The last 4 bed was 4500 a month that came up 2 months ago.
We were renting at 3000 a month an older house but it needed work and the landlord decided to sell so we moved out and living in a temporary small flat further away from kids schools waiting and waiting for 6 months for a house to come up.
We have heard from several friends that in the area the council have moved a problem family in to a large house in one of the roads. They dont work, 4 kids, police round all the time, stolen car crashed into a lampost, kids out the front screaming, teen age boy being arrested.
Anyway, these absolute scummers are living for free in a house we would love..
Whilst I am paying 40 percent tax and effectively homeless with 2 kids. Waiting for a house to come up that I can afford as 4500 is out of budget and property is scarce.
I am basically paying for these people to live in a house i can not afford to live in myself.
Am I a Mug? Should I move countries?
What is the fecking point in working anymore.

Remember when flat screen TVs were what the Daily Mail et al hated people with benefits having? Before that it was satellite dishes and Sky. Not sure what it is now, tattoos?

Not working is not a crime.

I live in a mixed area with social and private and 90% of the people who can work, do work.
Everyone does their bit.

@RollOnSunshine "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"

Yep, it is now "80inch flat screen TVs" because they finally clicked that you can't get anything other than flat screens anymore.

It is also nails now.

Am I a Mug? Should I move countries?

Of course you can move countries. Where are you off to?

You should be in charge.

Great idea 💡 💡 💡 💡
if you became homeless and/or jobless for any reason,I'm sure you won't mind going to jail and your kids getting put in care 😘 😘 😘 😘

I love the way that people think that prison and putting children into care is a magic solution. I mean places in care are just freely available aren't they? And being in care isn't a walk in the park. And what happens when prisoners are released with nowhere to go to?.

Are you homeless though? Nope, declaring yourself in same position as those in great distress doesn't help your case, you where paying £3k a month in rent, in an area which has much higher rent...
These are choices, sounds like you have plenty but decide to feel sorry for yourself, who knows what others are going through, I would rather a lot of other folk as neighbours than someone spouting poison, it's not a good look on anyone

It is true, they kept refusing houses offered as too small as they didn't want the children to have to share bedrooms so the council rent it from a private landlord.

It is a very well known property locally due to the previous owner being well known and those that are aware of the situation are not happy as don't feel it is fair and the property and grounds aren't being looked after which is a shame.

Nowhere to go and no job.... oh wait, they end up back in prison because they are unemployed.

Agree OP. It’s very frustrating. Hope you get sorted soon. 4500 is a lot a month, would a mortgage work out cheaper?

They tried that.... Look at the projects in NYC and see how that turned out...

"heard from several friends that "...
Does not put you in full knowledge of the facts .

You can go on housing list too. Tho maybe low down On list.

@loislovesstewie not to mention it is fucking Victorian, we used to have prisons for poor people - they were called workhouses I thought as a society we had moved past dehumanising the poor.

£4500 per month in rent? Where on earth do you live? I am in South East London and you could get a mansion for that. I know it’s not what you want to hear but maybe try moving somewhere cheaper. Good luck.

"scummers" maybe not the right word, but I totally agree I know someone living in a 4 bed, driving a brand new Mercedes and raking in over 3k a month on UC and also help towards rent and council tax. Why do people on here slag off people that work hard and pay 40% tax , any bonus for working even harder is eaten up by tax, but not allowed to say anything about people taking the piss. I am not saying everyone on benefits takes the piss but I know its very easy to work the system,

I have moved countries a few times. There is homelessness/housing crisis all over. The places there isn't really, places like Finland and Singapore, either have 80+% social/government built housing or very very small levels of financial variability and a LOT of social programming.

But in those places OP would be an immigrant and I'm fairly sure the same people who don't like benefits/social housing people are the same that don't like immigrants.

OP put some energy into making things better for you, and not worse for others. Look at The Shift about housing commodification.

Really?

Welfare/benefits etc. are supposed to be a safety net for the weak and those fallen on hard times not a long term lifestyle choice.

I doubt she would get on it at all given that she rents out a flat.

I 100% support social housing existing but having lived with a Problem Neighbour myself - if not THE Problem Neighbour in our area - I 100% understand how frustrating and insane it feels.

He managed to single handedly make everyone’s lives miserable in our building.

As long as it’s not near you eh?

Everyone accusing the OP of playing Daily Mail bingo probably haven’t experienced the misery of being insecurely housed with young children - I have and it’s utterly miserable. It isn’t fair. and of course OP is not being unreasonable to be upset by this.

But she IS housed