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i challenge you,social rents are now 80percent of private rent, you acknowledge you could not afford where you are on benefits so how could someone on the minimum wage? Stop your jibber jabber. Dont forget to include council tax.
Originally posted by grainofsand
Originally posted by symptomoftheuniverse
reply to post by grainofsand
so why dont you quit your job?your post is the most absurd i have seen on a.t.s
It was blair/labour who increased social rents to 80percent private,housing benefit has rocketed much more than the. The minimum wage. A family working on the minimum wage can not afford the new social rents,what are they supposed to do? Let them eat cake?
Your question is a classic example of the attitude so tragically found in our entitlement society these days.
I work because I like to smile at myself in the mirror and know that my hard work has covered the things I have, not the hard work of other tax payers.
I also work and have carried out many crappy 'in-between' jobs for the reasons I previously stated - I live in a private sector rented property and the existing rules will not cover a 2 bedroom place for me and my son as he is with me 3/4 nights per week and as his mother gets the child benefit his bedroom is not funded by housing benefit. I repeat, if I claim benefit there will be a shortfall of £300 per month in rent which would not be covered by benefit. This is the situation for millions of us in the private sector and if I paid the pittance in rent that social/council landlords charge I could cut my hours right down.
I challenge your assertion that minimum wage will not cover social/council rents, that is blatantly wrong and I hope you are just ill-informed and not making it up to back your argument. If you really want I'll pull some rent prices up from some housing associations to prove you wrong, but please do not force my hand, it is a waste of my time. How do you think minimum wage workers afford the rents in the private sector which are much much higher? Stop with the inaccurate claims please, it is not helpful to the debate.
Originally posted by Freeborn
reply to post by grainofsand
The social/council tenants pay below market value rents in homes subsidised by the people who pay taxes.
The point you may be missing is that private rents are so high because there is insufficient council housing thus allowing landlords to charge over-inflated rents.
Reducing the number of people seeking private accomodation will see a decrease in rents - simple supply and demand.
How do you think minimum wage workers afford the rents in the private sector which are much much higher?
you are bang right about the u.k, i am saving up as we speak. As the sex pistols predicted years ago,theres no future and englands dreaming.
Originally posted by CAPT PROTON
Here's a thought, why don't regular UK citizens just pick up and leave and move, to say oh I don't know, Canada or Australia? Tons of land. Some places, as in the States, they give it away just to get people in there. So you brits are going to let the chinese move into Canada while the whole lot of you fight for cheap, cramped housing on that sinking island. Unbelievable. Its disgusting how small the population size is for Canada considering its size.
Give the UK government what it wants, move in all the foreigners you can while the rest of you move out. I say this because you guys are obviously not about to do anything else. No riots, no protesting, no voting the bums out of office. So leave. Let them eat cake while they rule an island of foreigners who will turn on them when they feel in the majority.
Hell, come to Texas, we need more english speaking folks here.
Originally posted by Freeborn
reply to post by tdk84
and also add there has to be something done in regards to the prioritisation process with young adults, people having kids to get housing etc. Its ridiculous. I'm almost 30 and would love to have kids, but haven't, because until recently I know I simple cant afford too.
The thing is, in a caring and progressive society we should be able to offer young families a bit of a head start by providing cheap and affordable housing.
The fact that this country has actually gone backwards in this regard over the last 30 or so years is absolutely criminal.
People having kids to get housing is a reflection of the change in attitudes in general within our society - would these people have children if there was sufficient cheap and affordable housing? - I honestly don't know.
Originally posted by Freeborn
..... like the giant dept people got themselves into that aided in recent economic problems.
But it's understandable why people got themselves into so much debt - people were getting inundated with credit offers, large overdarfts etc and I certainly can't recall anyone, regardless of political affiliation, advising not to take people up on these offers.
And bear in mind that the largest debt nearly everyone get's into is their mortgage - and again we are back to the over-inflated housing market due to the lack of council housing.
Originally posted by Freeborn
And bankers and investors made vast amounts of money out of the ordinary man in the street doing so - and when it went pear shaped it was the ordinary Joe who bailed them out and it's the same guy who is suffering most from these 'austerity cuts'.
Personally I'm sick to the stomach of the poor, needy, vulnerable and just plain old ordinary being demonised and victimised.
The vast majority of people on benefits are not layabout, scrounging, drug addled alcoholics but, for any number of reasons, just simply find themselves in the situation that they are in.
Originally posted by Freeborn
And yes, I know these 'cuts' are beginning to bite the 'working man' now and that is equally wrong.
What this country needs is investment in it's people and infrastructure, proper and effective management and most importantly real jobs that pay real wages that enable people to spend cash.
These cuts are doing nothing but cause a great deal of suffering and a seemingly non-stop amount of finger pointing, bickering and at times downright hatefullness towards each other whilst those who really deserve our anger and contempt sit back and revel in our arguing whilst cointing their ever increasing personal fortunes which they point blank refuse to re-invest in this country.
Originally posted by symptomoftheuniverse
reply to post by grainofsand
The argument was about being better of on benefits or minimum rage. I suppose the poor africans should pull there socks up aswell the lazy good for nothings, your blinded by your own greed.
I challenge your assertion that minimum wage will not cover social/council rents, that is blatantly wrong and I hope you are just ill-informed and not making it up to back your argument. If you really want I'll pull some rent prices up from some housing associations to prove you wrong, but please do not force my hand, it is a waste of my time.
Originally posted by grainofsand
Originally posted by Freeborn
reply to post by grainofsand
The social/council tenants pay below market value rents in homes subsidised by the people who pay taxes.
The point you may be missing is that private rents are so high because there is insufficient council housing thus allowing landlords to charge over-inflated rents.
Reducing the number of people seeking private accomodation will see a decrease in rents - simple supply and demand.
True, I'll agree there, I'm just challenging the breaking hearts from the social/council sector who make out that life is so hard for them now having to face rules we've always had in the private sector.
Even after the rule change social/council tenants will still be vastly better off than private tenants.
Oh, and no-one is forced to pay this shortfall in benefit for excess rooms which they do not 'need', anyone of them can find a smaller place outside of the social sector, but then they'd be even worse off than they would by covering the shortfall. It's much harder outside of the embrace of the welfare state and some people need to realise this.
Originally posted by doobydoll
And those of you who are moaning about your expensive private rents, why don't you all move into a cheaper rented place? Those of you moaning about how expensive your mortgages are, why don't you sell up if you can't manage? Or rent YOUR spare rooms to strangers, then you'll have it 'easy' too won't you? That's what you lot always tell poor folk to do.
.. the cheap social/council rents are still subsidised by taxpayers in the private rented sector.
Yes I agree, we should be able to help the young, but there are a percentage that are simple taking advantage.
They obviously know about the issue, but how do you resolve it and weed out the chaff fairly?
Yes that's a tricky one, obviously during the boom time we were told we were at an economical revolution and even told a crash in the system like days of old wouldn't be allowed to happen, but it did.
Personally other then Student loans I've never had any debts, until buying a home. I was told to not have card, pay for things upfront with cash etc
I can understand though, it was hard to turn down credit offers when they look so tantalising.
Yes that is annoying... and whats more annoying is we continue to bail them out, fix the banking system & it would go a long way in aiding a vast majority of issues.
Originally posted by doobydoll
reply to post by grainofsand
.. the cheap social/council rents are still subsidised by taxpayers in the private rented sector.
Haha - What a load of bollocks!
You do realise that the majority of people claiming benefits ARE working and pay taxes, don't you?
Oh I get it, you're one of those dopey 'holier than thou', easy-to-con type of people who think that all benefit claimants are lazy, drug-addled alcoholics. That's what gov wants you to think you mug.
Wake up and get real.