Buying new asylum seeker housing in County Durham paused – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j4843x1vzo.amp
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Buying new asylum seeker housing in County Durham paused – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j4843x1vzo.amp
Posted by cornishpirate32
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why is housing even being purchased for them when there’s British people homeless on the streets and being told to wait in queues on housing lists?
I know that it’s apparently cheaper to do this than housing them in hotels but it blows my mind they didn’t see the push back coming, people are struggling and people on boats can simply walk into a house that’s bought and paid for and live free while their (in most cases) bogus claim is being made.
Talk about kicking the general public while they’re down.
As long as the young fighting age men have a bright future this country will carry on
I live in County Durham and we’ve seen a huge influx of migrants in the area. I wasn’t opposed to it but there’s been a string of incidents now in the area including men walking round town centre peeing in the streets during broad day light, a grown man following and then chasing two young girls in a park, recording them on his phone, another two sitting behind the shops absolutely mortal, pissing up and down the street against cars middle of the day and mid-week.
The area is already a mess, the housing is cheap and with good reason. Why is the government dumping more broken people into broken areas and putting more stress onto an already stretched and near-broken police force.
Have the same people buying up the homes for the immigrants put them up in their own homes, put them with the councillors and members of parliament who are willing to dump them on everyone else’s doorsteps.
We already have lots of drug crime and poverty, stop offloading people in to our areas when those who live here and the area desperately need help and attention.
I misread that sign at first, thought it was rather offensive
My parents house floods and they can’t do anything about it. They can buy that for them if they want.
Ahh Labour getting cold feet after Durham voted Reform en masse, weird how they suddenly care to listen to voters when they stop being theirs.
Cheaper to buy tents than houses. That’s all they should ever get. And then when once processed, a one way ticket back where they came from.
We’re getting to the point where the numbers coming in is going to be a national emergency. I suggest those who think we should keep taking more, are made to have at least one of those people come to live in their home, and they become responsible for what they do. I’m guessing enthusiasm will suddenly evaporate.
Here’s a thing, mother-in-law died recently, she was in a council house. Handed key back to the housing association and asked if they had anyone lined up to move in.
Now you are thinking I’m going to say it’s going to a migrant. Worse than that, they are selling it. I thought we needed more social housing not less. It’s a bloody disgrace they are even allowed to do this.
As horribly as it sounds, I don’t particularly want to live next to asylum seekers/refugees properties.
The transient nature of their situation means you’ll end up having an endless stream people moving in and out.
It doesn’t create sustainable communities or promote integration.
Smart move was going to blow up massively in the North East.
I don’t know why they are doing this. It is politically so toxic. They can claim to have reduced the money on migrants, but then exposed way more communities to having to live next to a bunch of unvetted migrants. That’s going to have way more of a negative effect on people’s voting habits than the headlines of the cost IMO. Why in God’s name are we giving random strangers housing over our own people? I hate this clown fiasco and I can’t wait until it’s finally over.
HMOs should be banned full stop. It is wild how many of them are springing up in places like Dewsbury and Rochdale. They are slums.
Is this why housing is more affordable in the region?
Pull the artificial prop – and that local market falls back – surely?