Kensington Resident Says She Will Leave

[trt]

if the Grefell victims move in to her building.

Cant say I blame her, the properties will devalue enormously.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4633644/Kensington-resident-away-Grenfell-victims.html

[Zacs-Master]

Gosh. You're a veritable saint Gness.

[naomi24]

Muntin, //Short term lets, say six months, until permanent new homes can be found.//

Sixty-eight of these flats have been bought by the City of London Corporation. They are now council flats that are being allocated to council tenants.

//The owners will presumably get some sort of rent and council tax paid.//

What are you talking about?

[gness]

For crying out loud, Zacs.....they don't beatify atheists.....of course I'm not a saint...
You saying you'd not help a young couple in desperate need of some care and help to get on their feet if you had it in your gift to do so?

[naomi24]

gness, but that isn't what we're talking about.

[Garaman]

I see Naomi has already raised the point I was about to raise, that these flats are intended as permanent homes, not as a short-term solution as Muntin implies.

The flats being purchased are part of the 'affordable quota' from the development, though I am not sure what affordable means in Kensington.

[gness]

I was answering Zac's question, Naomi...if that's okay with you....or does it leave you failing to have the last word......and we all know how important that is to you......x

[Mamyalynne]

"Social rent" means the rent is around 50 per cent of market rates. "Affordable rent" means about 80 per cent of market rents.

Planning documents show these were to be Social Rent.

https://www.foxtons.co.uk/living-in/kensington/rentals/

Cannot vouch for how that relates to the properties we are discussing but gives an idea.

[naomi24]

gness, comments like that are more at home in Chatterbank. Helping young couples, short term, who are in desperate need is not what this discussion is about.

[ladybirder]

A nice new flat in Kensington at half the market rent! You'd have to be mad to leave.

[Jackdaw33]

Well I for one agree with Naomi. The residents are obviously fearful that their neighbourhood will be trashed. Don't blame them.

[New Judge]

"...though I am not sure what affordable means in Kensington."

It means the same as it means anywhere else - that somebody else is paying most or all of your rent at the going rate.

[Peter Pedant]

// During the Blitz, many homes where destroyed in the bombings, but the authorities didn't move out the whole of the East end, simply because that the bombers might come back again. //

good point - goodish point
we have already had somewhere that there were no large scale population movements during the war because that AB sage at the time had forgotten evacuation ( up to three million children moved)

odd - I cant remember how you got the house when you were bombed out during the war - but once you did - you had a replacement grant. That is where the zoopy utility sign came from- utility furniture and you could refurnish a house for £15 - or £25 or whatever the grant was. [ but I can tell you how food ration stamps worked when you went into hospital (EMS) ]

https://capitadiscovery.co.uk/brighton-ac/items/1185462

as for the points on negative equity
o god I gartta laff
house prices have gone up as s/o said 4.6% this year in that sector. zoopla Wayneflete Sq W11 which is just near and you can have a cute one bed flat for £500k
Grenfell rd just near also - lovely houses for £1.5m

Negative equity here is just a social construct ( = wot you fink) - no one has made a loss - and there is a 5% loss buffer built in before neg equity comes in and you would have to have a 100% mortgage for that - all these things are a thing of the past.

so you ladies with heaving bzooms over negative equity -
heave not over equity altho I am sure you find something both disgraceful and iniquitous to heave about later on today

[this comment for slow readers was about war time utility furniture and current static house prices in London. fundamental arithmetic reqd for part 2]

[albaqwerty]

she can leave - why one earth are some fokl having such a hard time with being human in trying to help those who have lost absolutely everything?
Absolutely everything? Photos, passports, childhood memories, the list is endless

[Peter Pedant]

Gness - ignore that comment

//Well I for one agree with Naomi. The residents are obviously fearful that their neighbourhood will be trashed. Don't blame them.//

hahaha did someone say this thread is about helping young people live in an expensive area ?

it is much more like a thread about "I dont mind where these people live so long as they are around 24/7 to serve me my usual mocka-chino lattay"

it is a normal daaaaay on AB folks !

[tamborine]

I wouldng want to live near the cab driver who cant use a fire extinguisher.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/15/devastated-cab-driver-whose-faulty-fridge-started-grenfell-tower-fire-is-in-shock-6711743/