Why Are Eastern Europeans In England Given Preference To Social Housing?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/611711/Social-housing-Eastern-Europeans-England

[Svejk]

SirOracle /// Doesn't work that way Svejk ///

Which housing department do you work for, Sir O?
Maybe they do it differently in other areas, anyway. ;)

[EDDIE51]

The only criteria that a person needs to get on the housing list for a particular council is to have been a resident in the area for the specified time or in some cases to have family connections in the area. After that it is down to who has the most points, the country of origin is not part of the allocation process. I do not know where the Express got the figures from.

[Gromit]

// "91% this, 9% that" does not adequately dismiss the possibility that leap-frogging is occurring. What proof would you like other debaters to provide? //

Well, discriminating on the grounds of nationality would be illegal, so a prosecution or a conviction will do.

[Hypognosis]

@gromit

But that cannot happen, can it? The council would hardly want to press charges against itself; the queue-jumping family would hardly breathe a word of what was done to favour them.

Who else could possibly be privy to what occurred?

It would require a whistle-blower and, time after time, it ends up being a disaster for the whistle blower, doesn't it?

Prosecution isn't going to happen.

Freedom of information requests will soon be chargeable, too (yay, Tories!), so the curious public will not be able to access case histories other than at personal expense to themselves.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// The figures in the Express link prove nothing. 91% of lets went to British people. ///

Well that is obvious since there are more 'British' people.

[anotheoldgit]

I wonder if these Syrian refugees we have taken in, got preferential treatment or do they all live in refugee camps?

[sp1814]

AOG

There is one inescapable truth in this story, and that the maths are all over the place.

Not only is no causal link been established, but the story is comparing an absolute number with a percentage. That should ring warning bells.

By the way - the UK doesn't actually have a housing shortage.

What we have is an astonishingly large number of empty, but not derelict housing stock.

Anyone who watched that documentary presented by George Clarke on CH4 about 18 months ago will know what I am referring to.

Don't let anyone fool you into thinking we don't have enough houses.

We have TONS.

[Svejk]

Well if it was on Ch4, you must be right. And every other person in the country wrong. Larf.

[SirOracle]

Svejk // Which housing dept. do you work for Sir O ? //

I don't work for any housing dept.Svejk , and judging by the current state of affairs not many of the employees of housing depts. actually WORK there either.

;-)

[Hypognosis]

@sp

The "buy to leave" market?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/25/its-like-a-ghost-town-lights-go-out-as-foreign-owners-desert-london-homes

[agchristie]

Not all Registered Social Landlords operate a Points system. Some scrapped this system in favour of a Choice Based Lettings Scheme where applicants are placed in Bands and then bid for an advertised property on the company's website. The successful bidder is then notified.

[jourdain2]

According to a letter in the Telegraph today there are 4,896 Scottish children and parents waiting in temporary accommodation - yet Ms Sturgeon's 2,000 refugees per year will get priority.

[agchristie]

^ and despite saying she would take a refugee family in, Sturgeon's u-turn means no revision of the figures.

[retrocop]

Just watched the ITV News at Ten. The German populace,particularly in Bavaria, are not lining up and heralding a welcome to the hourly arrivals of immigrants on Munich train station like the photoshoot a few weeks ago.They are all questioning where Merkel wants to put them? Seems like her time as Chancellor is numbered and the Germans think enough is enough. History,alas,will repeat itself no doubt

[Gromit]

91% of lets went to British people.

// Well that is obvious since there are more 'British' people. //

If it is obvious, why are you trying to prove that eastern Europeans take preference?

[naomi24]

//why are you trying to prove that eastern Europeans take preference? //

They took preference over the 9% who are still waiting to be housed.