On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 08:57:25 -0000, "tim..." wrote:
"Paul Cummins" wrote in message
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In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:
So you can't get housed faster - you need to wait at least six
months,
already live in the district and be able to bid ...
If your need is greater at the six month milestone than a local,
you'll get housed after six months, and the local sometime never,
having waited years. That's faster.
But surely your need is greater at the zero-day milestone, since you have
no housing at that stage. And. apparently can't get any, even though
locals at the zero-day stage can.
but your need is only greater as you have made yourself intentional homeless
by leaving a perfectly good house back in your home country to move
somewhere where you couldn't afford the local rate for accommodation.
if a Brit did that, intra-UK, he would be barred from getting on the list at
all.
tim
I recall this issue came up forty-odd years ago in Tower Hamlets. The Liberals (remember them?)
said, quite reasonably in my view, that local people born in the borough should be prioritised for
social housing over immigrants from Bangladesh who had left their homes there.
The Liberals were of course attacked as racists and the social housing went to the migrants. The
irony is that years later their descendants used the same argument to try to stop eastern European
migrants getting housed.
My own view is that there should be a minimum qualifying period for residency in the UK (10 years?)
to get help with housing and other benefits.