[Diggers350] Housing must be seen as human right for every citizen, young & old

[greenwomble]

Home less, no no no, house less, not home less. people are dying on
the street for lack of HOUSE, not for lack of homes, there's lots of
homes.


Authorities estate agents developers builders plan it.


Money to make out of us.



Its a con. Its planned. People need homes not houses. Are you into
houses? That's like saying clothes = suit. Other clothes? no they're
not clothes because ..........they're not a suit.  suit =clothes.


All around the hypnotising tv. We have been brainwashed homes =
houses, brainwashed.  "oh duck that's a starter house! a starter
house!" what like your on a house ladder! bull!


Homes are easy to provision, get help to make and insulate. nice comfy
cosy home. Houses? take you 25 years on a mortgage if you can get a
mortgage.  Otherwise youi'd only option is to pay all your life to
someone to live in their house.


frank


On 18/10/2015, Tony Gosling tony at cultureshop.org.uk [Diggers350]
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> There are children dying at the sharp end of the housing crisis
>
> The deaths of two recently homeless babies show
> that for vulnerable families, the housing crisis is a matter of life and
> death
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> A single mother with her daughter in their council estate in Br
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> Too often, complaints about the housing crisis
> are dismissed as plaintive mewlings of the
> metropolitan moneyed class, disgruntled at their
> state. But for some people, the housing crisis is a matter of life and
> death.

> Two stories in particular pull this into sharp
> aspect. In late September,
> <http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/oct/16/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/baby-who-was-forced-to-sleep-in-car-with-homeless-parents-dies-a6669301.html>two-month-old
>
> Donald, sleeping with his homeless parents in a
> car in Bournemouth, died during the night. The

> parents had approached two councils for help but
> were told they did not qualify for emergency
> accommodation. This week, Warwickshire county
> council published the findings of a serious case
> review that saw a 10-week-old premature baby
> named in the review as “John” die on
> the<http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/oct/16/https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/wscb-seriouscasereview>night
>
> his parents were evicted from their housing association home.
> Donald’s mother told a local foodbank she had
> fled Poole due to an abusive ex-partner, and had
> approached both Bournemouth and Poole council for
> help with housing. Poole council said that
> although the mother “was not eligible [for
> housing], she was provided with as much support
> and guidance as possible”. Claire Matthews, the
> foodbank manager said that the couple were unable
> to raise a deposit for a flat and were in dire straits.
> The Warwickshire report into John’s death
> concluded services working with the evicted
> family “had not fully understood the issues at
> the heart of the case, and could have done more
> to mitigate the impact of the family’s eviction”.
> The report states that John was born six weeks
> premature and discharged from hospital after two
> weeks. The family were issued a final eviction
> notice one week later, and evicted in September
> 2013. John died sleeping with his parents on his
> grandparents’ sofa that same night.
> The most vulnerable families, and the most
> vulnerable tenants of all – children – are at the
> sharp end of the housing crisis, entertaining no
> hope of home ownership, but in desperate need of
> a roof over their head. The
> <http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/oct/16/http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/oct/07/david-cameron-kill-off-social-housing-affordable-homes>decimation
>
> of Britain’s social housing, combined with the
> swingeing central government cuts to local
> authority funding has pushed councils’ ability to
> provide temporary accommodation to breaking
> point. As a result, families fall through the
> net, or are told they fail the local connection
> test, and end up in the most desperate situation
> imaginable for parents: homeless with children.
> The cause of death for both young babies is
> unclear, but homelessness is not a situation that
> provides health benefits for anyone, least of all
> young, premature and extremely vulnerable babies.
> You’d hope we’d have progressed as a nation to a
> stage where every child could be housed
> adequately: instead, in 2013 and 2015, two babies
> died without so much as a bed to sleep in.
> The solution is not, as the Conservatives
> suggest, to force councils and housing
> associations to
> <http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/oct/16/http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/sep/25/social-housing-sell-off-right-to-buy-privatisation>sell
>
> social housing off with a vague but unsupported
> mandate to rebuild homes on a like-for-like
> basis, which hasn’t happened since right to buy’s
> introduction and won’t happen now. Housing must
> be seen as a human right for every citizen, young
> and old, and funded accordingly.
> No child should end up with nowhere to call home,
> or be born into complete housing precarity. Every
> child should be offered the best start in life,
> regardless of their parents’ economic status:
> being homeless before you can even talk or crawl
> is so far removed from that to be obscene. A
> civilised society would have a functioning safety
> net to ensure no child ends up homeless and dying
> before their first birthday without an address.
> The deaths of John and Donald suggest that thanks
> to the housing crisis, Britain may not be a civilised society.
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  It's a revolution. But, it's more of an evolution that no one will
notice. It might get a little shadier, or brighter. Buildings might
function better. You might have less money to earn because your food
is all around you and you don't have any energy costs.  and more
people will be fed, as more land and resources, kept scarce for the
dollar, for the  abundance called glut,  will be shared.