100,000 Homeless Children In UK

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On the news today, there was yet another item about the 'swarms' invading Europe, and another hand-wringer advocating letting larger numbers of them into The UK. Ironically, the next item was about the numbers of our own without anywhere to call home. Many have been made homeless because they are unable to keep up with ever increasing rents - undoubtably one of the effects of record immigration.

How do the lefties, including some in the 'let them in brigade' on here, justify letting tens of thousands in at the expense of British people?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1426596/100000-children-are-homeless.html
 
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People in favour of large scale immigration are always the people who immigration doesn't affect. They get cheap gardeners and child care. When it does start to affect them they'll be squealing like a stuck pig.
 
It's not trendy to look after our own. And, some on here have openly said that they would be prepared to accept the consequences of mass immigration. Why hasn't Sir Nob Geldof offered to house some of Britain's homeless children? Because it wouldn't make the news.
 
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100,000 Homeless Children In UK

Where did you get that figure from?

Are you perhaps thinking of
"Nearly 100,000 children in England are living in temporary accommodation after being made homeless, new figures show."

Is "living in temporary accommodation" the same as "homeless?"

Did you read the link?

First sentence:
"If faced with the loss of their home, any household can apply to their local authority for acceptance for housing assistance. "

Since Thatcher's day, social housing has been difficult to get, with a lot of former council homes having been snapped up by buy-to-let private landlords. I am advised that many tenants find they have to be evicted and classed as homeless before they will get any official help. So they wait for eviction.

Trendy or not, it's not easy to help our own because successive Tory governments have deliberately destroyed the stock of social housing that could have been used to help those in need of it.
 
On the news today, there was yet another item about the 'swarms' invading Europe, and another hand-wringer advocating letting larger numbers of them into The UK. Ironically, the next item was about the numbers of our own without anywhere to call home. Many have been made homeless because they are unable to keep up with ever increasing rents - undoubtably one of the effects of record immigration.

How do the lefties, including some in the 'let them in brigade' on here, justify letting tens of thousands in at the expense of British people?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1426596/100000-children-are-homeless.html
I think the good news is that in time this will cease to be the trendy news item and the hand-wringing TV reporters will have moved on to some other 'worthy cause'.

By then, of course, the damage will have been done and trying to get the toothpaste back into the tube will be an insurmountable problem.
 
Trendy or not, it's not easy to help our own because successive Tory governments have deliberately destroyed the stock of social housing that could have been used to help those in need of it.
So where will they find the housing for the migrants?
Pensioners' houses where there are too many bedrooms.
 
http://www.nihe.gov.uk/index/advice/homelessness_introduction.htm

it works on a points system, homeless you can get from 50,to 70 points, the more points the better your chance of a home.

Homelessness does not just describe people sleeping on the streets. It can happen to anyone, for any number of reasons. Even if you have a roof over your head, you may still be homeless.
You may be homeless if you are:
  • sleeping on the streets
  • staying with friends or family
  • staying in a hostel
  • staying in a bed and breakfast
  • living in very overcrowded conditions
  • at risk of violence if you stay in your home
  • living in poor conditions that are damaging your health
  • living in a house that is unsuitable for you
 
. Even if you have a roof over your head, you may still be homeless.

that might be an official definition, for purposes of helping those in need, but it is not what English-speaking people understand the word to mean.

If Joe had posted "nearly 100,000 children have been rehoused at public expense because their homes were not as good as we would like" he would not have attracted much attention.
 
The council house sell off has nothing to do with a housing shortage. The problem is a shortage of houses, which was true for 15 years under Labour. In fact the massive immigration that was welcomed by Blair and chums is one of the causes of the shortage of housing, the other being a low build rate. So we favour immigrants over UK unemployed.

We also have a lot of children in care, people with drugs and alcohol issues etc.
 
I think the clue is in the text. Living in temporary accommodation after being made homeless. As a result of being made homeless, they were put into temporary accommodation. Simples.
 
Trendy or not, it's not easy to help our own because successive Tory governments have deliberately destroyed the stock of social housing that could have been used to help those in need of it.
So where will they find the housing for the migrants?
Pensioners' houses where there are too many bedrooms.

There are certain pieces of recent regulation that you can see were brought in, in part at least, because governments knew full well that they were going to allow a rapid increase in immigration - both EU and further afield. The first I can think of was the minimum wage, because Labour realised that unless they put a lower limit on earnings, the arrival of ever more people would continually drive incomes downward. The Tory bedroom tax is aimed at shifting those from larger properties that they may have lived in for decades. Pressure for houses is great, especially in the social sector. Some nationalities traditionally have large families, whose needs are not being met from new builds. The government have taken the easy way out.
 
So you contend that the recent legislation is all aimed at making it better for immigrants?!

Your paranoia is really coming on a treat.
 
So you contend that the recent legislation is all aimed at making it better for immigrants?!

Your paranoia is really coming on a treat.
Whether that was the intention, I cannot possibly say as I am not very adept at reading minds.

In practical terms, however, it certainly appears to benefit immigrants, especially as I haven't read anything to suggest that such provisions have been put in place for our indigenous people in need.
 
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