“The number of children living in homeless temporary accommodation in England has reached a record high, while rough sleeping has also soared. Housing charities have said an increasing number of people are struggling to pay their rent.
Data obtained through a freedom of information request showed that more than 300,000 families a year in England and Wales formally applied to their local council for discretionary housing payments – emergency grants to help with rent and deposits – between 2021-22 and 2023-24.
The number of application refusals has risen 40% in three years, from about 96,000 in 2021-22 to more than 134,000 in 2023-24.”
Remember these stats when you hear someone spout off about benefit scroungers or how easy life is on benefits – it’s not.
LavaPurple on
I said it before and I’ll say it again
We saw, with our own very eyes during Covid, what the then Tory Government thought of the public then.
The level of corruption, contempt and blatant incompetence was in our face. These people could not care about anything other than their own bank balance and neworking.
The likes of Boris, Gove, Cummings, Raab, Patel, Braverman, Truss, Cleverly etc. All absolutely useless (and we’ve seen some of them jump ship to reform to keep the gravy train going).
We had nearly 15 years of asinine and pointless austerity measures and nothing to show for it except misplaced anger.
I am grageful I am not in the boat of the poor and needy in this country. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to raise a family in such a hostile climate we live in.
Spirited-Car8661 on
The only solution is building houses, but that threatens the landlords that are in all the parties.
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“With a shortage of council housing in the area, it looked as though Jardine’s mother would be placed in temporary accommodation and Jardine in a care facility, owing to his physical disabilities, unless they could come up with the money for private rented accommodation.”
The solution here is just that, build masses of government owned houses. Charge minimum rent. It won’t be pretty, but will be functional. Think eastern European style.
Benefits should be the minimum, food vouchers, not cash, not fancy cars etc. Enough to live (just), thus promoting betterment.
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“The number of children living in homeless temporary accommodation in England has reached a record high, while rough sleeping has also soared. Housing charities have said an increasing number of people are struggling to pay their rent.
Data obtained through a freedom of information request showed that more than 300,000 families a year in England and Wales formally applied to their local council for discretionary housing payments – emergency grants to help with rent and deposits – between 2021-22 and 2023-24.
The number of application refusals has risen 40% in three years, from about 96,000 in 2021-22 to more than 134,000 in 2023-24.”
Remember these stats when you hear someone spout off about benefit scroungers or how easy life is on benefits – it’s not.
I said it before and I’ll say it again
We saw, with our own very eyes during Covid, what the then Tory Government thought of the public then.
The level of corruption, contempt and blatant incompetence was in our face. These people could not care about anything other than their own bank balance and neworking.
The likes of Boris, Gove, Cummings, Raab, Patel, Braverman, Truss, Cleverly etc. All absolutely useless (and we’ve seen some of them jump ship to reform to keep the gravy train going).
We had nearly 15 years of asinine and pointless austerity measures and nothing to show for it except misplaced anger.
I am grageful I am not in the boat of the poor and needy in this country. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to raise a family in such a hostile climate we live in.
The only solution is building houses, but that threatens the landlords that are in all the parties.
“With a shortage of council housing in the area, it looked as though Jardine’s mother would be placed in temporary accommodation and Jardine in a care facility, owing to his physical disabilities, unless they could come up with the money for private rented accommodation.”
The solution here is just that, build masses of government owned houses. Charge minimum rent. It won’t be pretty, but will be functional. Think eastern European style.
Benefits should be the minimum, food vouchers, not cash, not fancy cars etc. Enough to live (just), thus promoting betterment.