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Thread #163386   Message #3897874
Posted By: Jim Carroll
07-Jan-18 - 07:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Homelessness a Personal Choice?
Subject: RE: BS: Homelessness a Personal Choice?
"Jim why do you always pick up the wrong end of the stick."
You have just put up three links to mental health problems and you have yet to comment on the fact that the major cause of the problem was when houses weer turned into investments and placed out of reach of a large portion of the British people - what other stick is there to grasp
You hung your colours to the mast on homelessness when you dismissed the idea that survivors of the Grenfell fire should not be housed in local vacant buildings - property before people every time.
"It is a social problem and a question of what society is prepared to tolerate"
When Goldman Sachs starts burying up rented property and evicting the tenants as they are now doing in Ireland, it becomes an international problem
Dave
I agree with you entirely about some not being able to afford 'affordable homes' but the first step has to be to make a roof over your head a right rather than a privelege
That was what the post war Labour Government had in mind when they established council housing, and that is what Mad Maggie destroyed when she respectabalised greed
Jim Carroll