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Aneirin -> RE: .BNP Members Leak. (11/21/2008 11:56:07 AM)
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Housing lists and the points system, when I was living in that beautiful city made famous most recently by the Inspector Morse dramas, the points system was reorganised twice, lots of people that knew they were near the top of the list after years of waiting suddenly found themselves further down the list. It seemed they no longer had the required points to be higher up the list. When applying for council property areas, you get given a map with all the areas marked and a questionaire as to what you require and where. You had a number of choices, at the time we had four areas in which we could choose to live. Obviously certain areas through local knowledge we avoided like the plague.
When the points system changed, we had to reapply for an area, but this time we were only given two choices, the iffy areas, a case of take it or leave it. Leave it and you are off the list so we took it with the belief that no matter what happens outside, we shut the door behind us and it stays outside. Well, it was an estate, an estate full of crime and feral kids. I had a beautiful fully restored VW camper, over the space of five years it was trashed by them outside, I would have been happier if they had burned it, but no such luck, it was a dented, scratched trimless wreck by the time it got sold and it got sold after I was mugged and the thief took the keys. Every single lock was screwdrivered, they would break in turn it over and leave, time and time again. That estate totally demoralised me, but the worst aspect was the gunfire and the seemingly permanent police helicopter over the estate, it's night sun turning night into day, I came to fear going home after work and was armed, going out at night, forget it.
On being offered the flat, the proviso was if we turned it down, that's it, we had to find our own accomodation. So, it would seem all of us stand likely to get the shit end of the stick when it comes to social housing.
Oh, in that city, if you were single, especially a single male, forget it, though you are entitled to social housing, you won't get it. Worse still if you were fit and healthy, being that carried no points and I do know of people who feigned illnesses, bad back etc to get housing points.
I pity any of any race that has to live in those conditions and worse, what was rows and new estates of house proud people who formed a friendly community has degenerated into a seething mess where everyone distrusts everyone else. Often it is everyone lives in fear, in fear of what may happen next, that is no way to live for anyone. Now, I avoid social housing like the plague, given my experience, I do not wish to go there again.
Perhaps there is something else, ever notice how council housing estates always seem to have the highest numbers of ill people living there, perhaps there is a reason for it.
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