The Housing Crisis

I've seen stories like too. I personally would just be happy that I had a roof over my head and would make the most of it. A lot of people seem to be entitled these days. There aren't enough houses to go around, unfortunately not everyone is going to get exactly what they want. A family member of mine lived in a one bed flat with their partner and 2 kids all in the one bedroom. Never moaned as they were just grateful to have somewhere to live. They eventually got a 2 bed house. Kids had to share a room, they never once complained. They were just happy they had a home for their family.

I was on the housing list for over 15 years.Then I met and married my husband.I only got single tenancy after he died.We were married for over 14 years and living together for 5 before that.But for him I'd probably still living with mum or sofa surfing.

I expect if the council found her a 3 bed house she would refuse because it’s not in a desirable area or too far from schools.

In Bristol it is something like 23,000 families on the waiting list when there is only 27,000 council homes all currently occupied. England now has a greater population density than Japan and there is no money for new housing stock and not many places to build them anyway. We will have to follow Japan's example and start creating far smaller homes. One of the things that used to help with housing was the old rates system. It made local taxation was far, far worse for larger properties as you paid a percentage of the properties value this meant it was more expensive to live in larger houses. Nowadays the rich can have large main homes and even second homes all for less comparatively than what they used to pay for single smaller home. It was also super cheap and efficient to collect as the tax was on the home which never moved. The rates meant people would aim for smaller properties and pack more people in to save money. No such incentive with the current system.

So many poor political choices has led to this problem and it's still getting worse due to a high level of immigration. Lack of availability has also caused private rents to soar and create real poverty due to rent taking such a high percentage of people's earnings

My son has been on the housing register for probably 8/9 years now, he was offered one place right at the start but he refused it because of how far out it was. He still applies now for a place but never even gets a phonecall or email. I understand there's people with priorities but that's a long time

I agree it does seem entitled to expect a bigger propriety due to wanting certain luxuries. The newspapers are very clever in putting these stories out though, it breeds resentment for those on benefits which has been going on for years.

Waiting lists for council housing ect.. are ridiculous, my 22 yr old has been waiting 4 years, council needs to build more housing, quickly

I don't doubt you I've seen news reports before of ungrateful people who were given a home and still complained, but do you have a link for this one?

People these days or before think that can produce children and expect the state to pay for them. Not acceptable you produce you provide! Including a roof over their heads!

They can moan all they want but they have been housed. You can't have it all. I can't get on the waiting list. I need to have more kids to qualify. I've no garden either but we've survived