The housing shortage is all one big money laundering flip, its only there on paper not like that in reality, but thats a different argument for a different day.
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If the government use peoples taxes to pay for some 16 year olds flat then why cant they do the same for warn torn refugees who apply through the right channels ? There are plenty of city center apartments almost always availible all year round throughout the country.... ( i know some insurers also do this to some people in "extreme" housing situations).
Such a bug fuss about 4k refugees when there are 2.3m economic eu migrants in this country and last year 250k fresh ones entered with a big smile using wizzair
I disagree, this country is extremely overcrowded. Especially in the South-East, and major metropolitan centres, where most migrants would like to settle. This country cannot take a net migration rate of over 300,000 every year.
Those properties are privately held. Are you proposing the Government seieze them? Or that Government (Meaning us) pay the market rate to house some migrants in those unoccupied properties?
Because in the first place they are not refugees, they are migrants, economic migrants. The father of the young lad who died has gone back to Kobane. The whole family lived in Turkey for three years, supported by family living in Canada. He only wanted to come to Europe to access some dental health, and then go on to Canada. He wasn't exaclty fleeing ISIS for the past three years was he?
Why are the vast majority of the people we see men. Are they fleeing places so bad that they had to leave behind their wives and daughters and sisters?
Precisely, they have not applied through the right channels have they? They are just looking to go to the most genenours countries.
Charity begins at home. They are hundred of thousands of people on waiting lists to get social housing. Should an economic migrant who has skipped Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, Germany and France get priority over a British citizen?
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That offer them your house line is so dumb tho
Rented out an apartment for the weekend in the countryside, management said its been a slow summer and they dont normally do short term lets but they have so many spare, imagine how people bang on about housing shortage in this country and there are perfectly nice places sitting empty for 3/4 of the year.
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Why is it dumb? All of these people who love to do activism on the cheap, by signalling their virtue on social media, should put their money where their mouth is. I expect them to logically consistent, and to lead by example.
It's very easy to sign a petition online trying to get the government and other people to do something.
Well there is a housing shortage, that is undeniable. Hardly anyone can earn a living while residing in the countryside. There isn't enough housing stock in the countryside to overcome shortages anyway.
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