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.

Are you the editor, then?

Op is a high rate taxpayer with a rented out property so has many more choices than a lot of people. Dont waste energy on these people op. Police are involved they will get their penalty.

@ThatsNicer

Well luckily the stats show out that is generally how they work

Most social housing tenants are not feckless and work shy:
25%–29% of social housing lead tenants are retired.
27%–29% of lead tenants work full-time.
22%–25% are unable to work due to disability or being an unpaid carer of someone disabled.
7%–8% are unemployed and are able to work

around 38% of people on benefits are employed
29% are too disabled to work
19% are caring for someone who is disabled and therefore cannot work
that leaves 15% who are in the able to work but not, most of these are short term claimants (6 months or less) for example someone who has been made redundant

Living in a flat – whilst renting out a property you own – is very bloody far from being "effectively homeless".

You are not allowed to voice such thoughts. I got torn to shreds years ago for noticing our working age layabout neighbours just sat around smoking weed dealing drugs and claiming benefits while we trotted off to work for pay for it all. I only noticed this when I was on mat leave.

I'm calling bollocks on this one - according to Zoopla a mere £4250 pounds a month will get you four bedroom two bathroom apartment flat five minutes walk from Hyde Park Corner.

OP owns a property. She isn't 'insecurely housed' or 'effectively homeless'.

She owns a property and is a landlord. I'm sure she could find herself a better property if she put her mind to it.

Don't mind if I do...

Yes really, see my previous reply.

Usually if you keep refusing houses, you are simply moved to the bottom of the list.

They are not living in a house for free. They have to pay rent. That rent may come from Housing Benefit, but the local tariff will not be as high as the rent itself.

I resent posts like these that assume that anyone who is on benefits is anti-social, pissing it up the wall and living a life of Riley. It is as if you think they are worth less than you and your family.

It is hard. Health, education and work outcomes are much worse for people on very low incomes. Inequality cascades down the generations.

The current rental market is an absolute scandal and I am sorry that you are caught up in the tail end of private landlords trying to make money out of people's homes. But the Renters' Rights Act has now brought in more security and a fairer rental market, so once you do find the right place, you can be confident that your children will have a stable home for as long as they are in school. You can thank Labour for that because the Tories did nothing to help people in your situation.

I would far rather we focused on companies taking massive amounts in care home fees and making millions, nay billions, in profit from the UK state than bash those on benefits.

If we spent as much investigating tax evasion as we do on investigating benefit fraud we would recoup far more money.

@JuliettaCaeser just so you are aware Statutory Maternity Pay is a statutory benefit that employers can claim back from HMRC - so you yourself were on benefits (at the cost of the taxpayer), whilst you were hoiking up your judgy pants.

The children have SEN so were treated as a priority to be near a certain school.

Let's see this four bed apartment in Hyde Park.....

So you’re living beyond your means but mad at other people minding their own business…why?

Compounds of aggressive antisocial c*nts all together... away from law-abiding people who like to live their lives without causing grief to others.

So they turned down other properties near the school or was this the property nearest the school?

My child has SEND too. I was told to bid very carefully because if I got the property, I would need a very good reason to turn it down and keeping him at his school wasn't classed as a good enough reason.

OP is a landlord.

@RetiredFromExplaining
They are not living in a house for free. They have to pay rent. That rent may come from Housing Benefit, but the local tariff will not be as high as the rent itself.

If they don't work, have no income and no liquid assets and their rent is covered, it is free. To say they pay it when they don't have income or assets is disingenuous.

I resent posts like these that assume that anyone who is on benefits is anti-social, pissing it up the wall and living a life of Riley. It is as if you think they are worth less than you and your family.

The OP doesn't assume this at all. She merely states the family who live near him, specifically fit this criteria. If her account is accurate, she'd be right about the adults being worth less than her too.

"police round all the time, stolen car crashed into a lampost, kids out the front screaming, teen age boy being arrested."

Not text book "minding their own business" in my opinion.

Hyde Park Mansions, Chapel Street NW1, 4 bed property to rent, £4,250 pcm - Zoopla

Lol she's not insecurely housed, she owns a house that she rents out and I can guarantee if she was evicted from her current rental and gas no where to go she'd evict the family in her rental property without hesitation!

So near me for £4500, you can get a detached house with six beds and three bathrooms…….! www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/166720001

A six bed Victorian villa near me, under budget too 6 bedroom detached house for rent in Willes Terrace, Leamington Spa, CV31 1DL, CV31