Housing Britain: Moved miles away from home - BBC Newsnight

Expensive houses for sale, unaffordable homes to rent, a lack of social housing, a growing population and all at a time of squeezed council budgets.
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In this film, as part of our Housing Britain series, Katie Razzall goes to Maidstone to hear from those who have been re-housed far from home to see what impact this is having on their lives.
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[@swineheartdoppleganger5516]

People can no longer rely on councils and the government to help them with every aspect of life. Able bodied people have to sort themselves out.

[@josephinekenyon-blair3521]

So where exactly do you expect the council to put you when they don’t have anymore resources?

[@suilvenmountain2395]

Move them to the north east where there are countless streets of abandoned houses, get the local unemployed to do the houses up first. Make returning exservicemen wardens and caretakers.

[@desbest4]

Social cleansing is happening all over the UK. I have seen council/social housing be demolished to be replaced by luxury housing.

[@CHUTNEX]

Bought by overseas purchasers as an investment, never actually used for the intended purpose.

[@garsm2290]

The falling pound with Brexit means more rich Arabs and Russians can buy apartments. The Londoners have to be moved out to Kent.

[@DrJams]

Immigration is why you can't get a home

[@hosephanerothe1440]

Kent has always suffered from London councils shafting their unwanted. This happened long before the economic crisis

[@crayontom9687]

NFF UK Kent gets shafted both ways as all the rich Londoners also buy up second home properties, particularly in the coastal towns. Causes a lot of resentment

[@kwameopoku3576]

Yhh alot of ppl i kno gne to ashford

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

It is the new tory rules where people applying for social housing don't have to be rehoused in the area they currently live in - this means that the Tories have given councils a license to deport the poor. The primary motivation for these policies is the same as the sell-off of social housing in the '80s: creating conswrvative safe seats in the major cities by getting rid of labour voters - the project was called "building stable communities". Gerrymandering is where borders are moved to manipulate the outcome of voting populations - what's going on today is simpler but just as corrupt: moving people over borders.

[@iane427]

It's Maidstone, not Mars. Moving is difficult but it's better than homelessness

[@margaretwilson8736]

Mars is in Pennsylvania. So is Moon. Whether planet or city, you're correct. 😏

[@janetpotter8101]

It’s subsidised Housing. What does she expect. I could never afford to live near either my parents or my partners. What has happened where people have this expectation of entitlement. Plus yes, where’s the fathers.

[@suilvenmountain2395]

@@janetpotter8101 Yes. Same here, and I earned double national average wage.

[@maninthewilderness5795]

These slags lay on their backs and spread their legs and have children they cannot support....and those of us who work have to foot the bill? I say CAP EM!!!

[@susanelliott2287]

Man in the Wilderness. Best thing they ever did bringing in the Benefits Cap. When the tax payer has to support other peoples kids while the sperm doners, ( can't justifiably call them fathers ) run for the hills to impregnate more women and these people get more money by not going to work, society is breaking down. Sad really.

[@karenhardy495]

These people are living in the council houses usually single mothers who want somewhere to live they should be grateful to be offered a place to live but they complain!!!! If they don't like it go to work then you can rent somewhere you want to live!!!! By paying for yourself.

[@susanelliott2287]

Karen Hardy. 👍 too right. Where are all the sperm doners? Can't really call them fathers can you? This is fast becoming a society where the tax payers keep these peoples kids. Shameful.

[@mikeythefrog]

I had to move 200 miles away from my extended family in order to sustain a better life for my family. No one has the right to live in a particular place, especially people that are asking the tax payer for support.

[@bigbobabc123]

mikeythefrog I agree. If you can’t afford to House yourself, you lose the right to be picky. I don’t understand why you’d have two children if you’re in the position as the lady in the video. I’ve had to move for work too, it’s not ideal but you have to do it.

[@loxlover1714]

My family moved several countries for a chance for a better life. The world is not perfect.

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

Massive amounts of predatory lending have forced the prices of rent and ownership far out of reach of people who work for a living. Then consider that the government bailout of the banks in 2008 as "taxpayer support" - where bad loans were bought by the government and then sold off for pennies on the pound to the very same financial industries to collect in full. The government then implements "austerity" and a massive sell-off of public services - including public housing - while citizens' earnings have flatlined.

[@richardgoode5314]

Support as a tax to provide as income a life in as a normal context as Britain.

[@richardgoode5314]

@@bigbobabc123 Policy by goverment to maintain in support as a price by a income to a MP as direction or a Labour party and Conserative party. As system in regard as equal in policy as Parliament by a country relate to a life as to a way as life.

[@garolstipock]

Back in the 1980's and prior, few would say those old council flats/homes were perfect, BUT you could actually call it "home" and feel as such. Communities, connections, belonging was a positive highly valued byproduct of it..

[@manaih5652]

Um, in the 80s the properties were still very bad. You’d have to go back to the 60s.

[@FrazBB]

Why should hard working people have to pay for people that have multiple children who can’t afford them. Make better life choices and you might not be evicted.

[@denisesiddon7241]

Makes me mad especially when you are working and struggling to buy basics

[@lyledeyounges1276]

It's not only about housing, it's about home - seems to be lost on most people commenting.

[@christieomojo]

Everytime I see these types of videos its always single mothers where are the fathers they should take responsibility a well.

[@Laughing_Chinaman]

maybe dont get pregnant from a man who doesn't want to be a father. maybe dont kid your baby daddy out because you only want a kid and he's a convenient sperm donor

[@OakleyANDSittingBull]

@Laughing Chinaman No, its not "dont get pregnant." No more blaming it on women. Women have proven their worth while working within a crooked corrupt world. That won't cut it. Selfish cowardly men and boys who are doing the do need to NOT ejaculate internally.

[@Laughing_Chinaman]

the pill is free and abortions are legal. take responsibility for your own body. why should a man take responsibility for a child he didn't want?

[@instanoodles]

@Laughing Chairman Aren't you a class act. It takes two to tango buddy, if you are not prepared for the responsibility of having a kid then don't have sex. A man should take responsibility for their actions, not act like a little bitch and run away from the "problems" they helped create. You are pathetic

[@saarangsahasrabudhe8634]

I think it's a combination of: "Married couples with children tend to make better decisions" and "BBC wants to put emphasis on people in despair for viewer ratings"

[@chrisglyn-jones4657]

Maidstone is a great place to live. My sister and all her family moved there years ago and love it.

[@benking9503]

I became homeless in Maidstone and I had no children at the time, I went to the council offices and was told they couldn't help me unless I had children, so I spent a further 3 years homeless, so they wouldn't help me but they move people in from London who don't want to be there, thanks Maidstone Borough Council for all your help u appreciate that! I was from your Borough but u ignored me im lucky to be alive still !

[@MeiinUK]

You should be registered as well... and there should've been some kind of national programmes, to house you in another borough, at the very least !!! Even if it is Liverpool. There should be inter-city opportunities... I don't see why people cannot relocate etc. If this does not happen, then at the VERY least, the housing charities within the UK OUGHT to connect to actual social housings, or private social housings TO give people an opportunity to live !

[@nellyandbert]

This is unacceptable. London’s issue not Kent’s or anywhere else’s. it’s about time the major of London realised London is full and took some action to control immigration, housing and social care. Disgusting example of council and population mismanagement. Ruining Kent in the process. Thoughts for the people who moved out to Maidstone and bought their properties in order to move away from these sort of issues only to find a London borough drops the people they no longer want in their borough into the town anyway. Disgusting abuse of people and the situation by London councils.

If you getting something Free while others have to work sacrifice for the same, why you complaining?? Take responsibility for yourselves.

[@fiona3821]

If they have worked or buy products services in that Country They pay taxes!!!!!

[@luisluis5306]

"Moved miles away from home" could be worse, could be Birmingham. After the property crashes of the 80s and 90s , where a lot of house builders went out of business , the ones that remained went back to the drawing board . The outgoing major government then New labour and camerons coalition just went along with the new policy of stack them high, sell them high! Those of us who own property need ask ourselves do we want our property values to be heavily lowered and our neighbourhoods, brown and green belts to be heavily built upon, all whilst immigration continues to rise? Also not forgetting Britain and mainly London is the money laundering capital of the world! And our biggest and most profitable industry the service sector, actually enables this corruption to happen.

We need to go back to a time when we had an extended family as support, marriage as a union build on duties and responsibilities. Children conceived not outside wedlock. Where a women Also (among many other things) chooses a man for the ability to provide for his family not rely on the sacrifice of others already sacrificing for their own. This insistence of this type of life style is failing and this country will not be able to continually print money to support it, the money is becoming worthless.

[@zeeshanshabbir9651]

Preach

[@Neocyberman1]

Marriage and stable relationships are the result of stable economic conditions. One cant happen without the other not the other way around. What im saying is the focus is on the wrong thing.

@@Neocyberman1 you should travel around the world a bit and i dont mean the popular tourist spots where you meet people from your own demographics...your analysis means no one has ever got married until they have a stable economy since the dawn of mankind. Maybe this is shocking, but i think 2 people married or unmarried consume the same resources. Marrying and living in an extended family is a social benefit both old and young and the yet to be born. Each member has their duties obligation. This idea of independence really gets shot down when yiu end up in a care home.

[@maninthewilderness5795]

These slags lay on their backs and spread their legs and have children they cannot support....and those of us who work have to foot the bill? I say CAP EM!!!

[@raykenley]

You get a roof over your head for free, Kent is not Jupital,yet people are still complaining. We work our ass to pay our taxes so that there is a roof over our head,and we often live in a room size of a toilet in London,compare to us,I hope you have more graditute toward what the council are providing,and start working and earn your own living if you are not happy with it.

[@thegreatchallenge5963]

Try a policy of British homes for Britons first. When the ethno brits are housed you can look at housing foreigners and selling to the Chinese and Arabs.

[@deniseg-hill1730]

Maidstone is a nice town. Where are the Fathers of the children on this programme.

[@leeoconnor123]

I grew up in london - most fathers are missing there i'm afraid.

[@contessaanthrope5775]

If a woman makes bad choices in men, and has unprotected sex out of wedlock, she bares the pain of watching her children suffer. Stop playing house and grow up.

[@zcharg0]

People should be compulsorily sterilised if they can’t afford to bring up children by themselves

[@compendioussuccient6784]

They prob don’t know who the father is

[@sandrafinbar]

@Pearce Enourtime blame them both.

[@glenn20081965]

People move around the country for jobs....No choice should be given to people living off the state. Get a job and work if you want choice.

[@motimobo]

Only very well paid people move around the country for jobs. The cost of moving house shocking and is more than anyone on minimum wage can save in year probably two, yet another reason why this country needs affordable housing , so people can save up and move to place which offers good job opportunities ie a mobile work force which is good for the economy.

[@leeoconnor123]

well that explains miller heights and the level of crime increases in maidstone. I really feel most for single mothers and their kids, there are an awful lot of drunks and drug takers being pushed onto maidstone and single mums have to raise their kids under the same building. It's not safe.

[@pauladams4886]

Lee-Ann O'Connor Sniff boo hoo sob , then don’t have kids you can’t afford and expect me to pay for it

[@akastenas]

Aloise lives like a queen and her children like princes! They live like royalty. UK must be very rich country to be able to provide for it's people so well.

[@Ben-jq5oo]

Where are the fathers? They are missing from families in so many similar videos.

[@maciejwejman3160]

I don't know why people stick to London. This city is a complete crap. Double or triple prices, overcrowded and huge criminality. I stay away from that place and I am happy with that.

[@jaguppal187]

free housing - whats with the complaints?

[@daveyjamesolson]

"When she was made homeless by her private landlord last year..." Hahahahahahaha. Such awful reporting.

[@SkyEcho7]

This isn't new for Maidstone, West Malling or the Medway Towns; 12 year waiting lists for Council housing in these areas has been the norm since the 1970s. London overspill, since the late 1960s, has contributed to unaffordably high rents & property prices for local people. I can't even begin to imagine how many families are now living in unsuitable temporary accommodation or homeless since the introduction of the Bedroom Tax & the pressure it's putting on people & services.

[@kavic1234]

More people on the dole, needing more public housing. The never ending results from a welfare state. Labour solution, more immigrants, more welfare, no one is responsible

[@suilvenmountain2395]

London is too expensive for people without jobs to live. they should be moved out. I grew up in a city almost as expensive as london, I always understood I would have to move out and I did, I bought a house elsewhere. I made a contribution, earning double the national average wage. why should these idlers be different? there are towns in the north east where there are many empty streets and cheap housing, the unemployed and single parents from london should be moved there. the social workers supporting the 'vulnerable' people could move with them reducing the pressure on the london labour market

[@dusanveselka3240]

British housing is so bad its not even funny, especially compared to that in other EU countries. Their sizes are claustrophobic, walls are made of cardboard or what, good luck trying to open the windows after a few years, no floating floors, radiators (the war is over, its 21st century), just a carpet on a concrete floor (the 60s are over), everything is on the cheap (you dont want to see a bathroom), and the price? Fuck! Not only is it all bad, but its prohibitive! If housing put stress on your budget, your childcare and universities are not for free, you pay council tax on top of that and most people are on near minimum wage... good luck.

[@MrTomtomtest]

And you can bet those reconverted buildings are nowhere near as good as new residential ones in energy proficiency, soundproofing, etc... That said it is always better than being homeless.

[@michaelmullin7941]

Why do these women with kids not have husbands and don't work for a living?

[@susanelliott2287]

People have got to work their way out of poverty and not expect the state to do it all. Where are the men? don't they feel in any way responsible for the many children they procriate. Believe me I am not in any way wealthy but we have always worked hard, at times I have had three jobs. The state pays for childcare, use it.

[@loaded8588]

London needs to build MORE affordable and social housing and make Londoners the priority

[@naxT890]

Sounds easy. Its difficult to put into practice. Torries would like to see homeless freeze in the cold.

[@dusanveselka3240]

Im sceptical about whether building affordable houses would actually solve anything. affordable means 80 percent of the market value. thats still too high and not affordable to the 99 percent of those who need it.

[@garsm2290]

The falling pound with Brexit means more rich Arabs and Russians can buy apartments. The Londoners have to be moved out to Kent.

[@kernow24]

you need rent caps and housing price caps, building more won't help because affordable housing isn't affordable to most people, you need more proper council housing ie council owned and managed if you build anything, as that is at around 50% of the market rent price

[@simpleasliam657]

SkinnySwag7 how? You know how expensive it is to buy land and build in London? .....

[@akastenas]

Aloise lives like a queen and her children like princes! They live like royalty. UK must be very rich country to be able to provide for it's people so well. These people do not understand how lucky they are to be citizens of UK.

[@rachelhart3531]

Why are people more bothered about making cheap political points and deeming these women irresponsible, why aren't people more concerned about the poor woman whose seven year old son died? Which probably would not have happened if she had remained in London! Just absolutely heartless, I am honestly quite shocked about this! Did you even watch the video or did you just decide to comment on it?

[@schatzeeone6230]

Beggars can’t be choosers. Want a choice in where you live? Then be sure you can pay for your lifestyle yourself.

[@Garyboldyful]

WHERE IS THE F****** FATHER!!!! How can you be so selfish to make the decision to bring a child into this world without being there or being able to support them and give them a good start in life.

[@brandonholmes8485]

The father was probably out at work.

[@susanelliott2287]

Brandon Holmes. Since the women say I and me not us it is highly unlikely that the father/s is/are on the scene.

[@dashmaya8355]

They complain and complain work hard pay for your own house don’t expect us to pay for your rent, food, sky tv, iPhone contact!

[@jodarniche4811]

Every single person needs a roof over their heads. For homes to be used simply for income and profit is abhorrent. Every wage should enable people to live in reasonable decent comfort. 'Council' homes were built alongside purpose built industrial areas etc to enable workers to live nearby. Those now responsible for infrastructure etc have been doing a lousy job and when it is costing children and adults wellbeing and lives it is unforgivable. RIP little angel.

[@gavinreid8351]

Remember the saying ; Beggars can't be choosers.

[@tsg50647]

.. thats not fare

[@turkishdisco2]

My left ear particularly enjoyed this video...

[@alexi-divasskinner960]

turkishdisco2 only the right side of my earbuds work so I had a good minute of waiting for narrator only for it to never come😭😭

[@barnbersonol]

You've moved towns for economic reasons. And...? People move countries, CONTINENTS, and have done so since the dawn of time without whining!!

[@keepingupwithyoutubers959]

Luton Bedfordshire is the same. All the old office buildings and old universities student accommodation have been turned into residential accommodation.

[@margaretwilson8736]

The problem is the lack of smaller housing for singles and small families... The US has this problem, too. It's not related to space. It's not profitable to build a lower end home, so our market is swamped with houses and three bedrooms. I'm one person, I want an efficiency or a small apartment, but I'm forced to wait till I have someone to live with in a home like it's the 50s. It's uncommon in the US for roommates to split a house... It's considered a "poor people" thing. No options here. And no, I'm not going to shack up with four friends because I'm 23, not 18 and in college. Please build more singles housing.

[@jackowen6929]

where is her husband? Why is he not out working to provide housing for his wife and sons?

[@byblispersephone2.094]

The fathers have done a runner. Gone for a pint of milk and didn’t come back ! It’s quite sad really.

[@jackowen6929]

@@byblispersephone2.094 don't think women would have kids with a man like that must be another reason.

[@Denis-tg6jw]

Unbelievable. Do these people want a home or not? On a separate note, there is a mass of redundant commercial property that can be used and this ill informed documentary suggests it shouldn't.

[@simpleasliam657]

So much to say on this.... I mean she has a roof over her head, but I know many people are saying it’s gentrification of London..... it’s a shame that areas like Maidstone doesn’t have the infrastructure to cater for these relocated people

[@reikiwarrior8888]

maidstone still aint far from london try birmingham love but like the woman that lost her son i feel so sad for her, you can't give up u gotta just make it somehow

[@wouldbegood]

Land Value Tax.

[@MohamedAli-ls9hs]

What do you mean?

[@wouldbegood]

Get rid of council taxes and make owning land a tax burden to stimulate land use and fluidity with increased scrutiny to market forces. Hopefully reducing the value of land whilst increasing the productivity of it. Current U.K. land market cap £7tn.

[@motimobo]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGbCemmkpKxjptU This video explains how Denmark's economy was transformed through the application of a Land Value Tax in the 1800's. Instead of idle land owners collecting all surpluses in the economy and all the windfalls provided by technological and scientific advances such as steam engines and railways, these surpluses and wind falls could be reinvested into the economy allowing for more investment in production and public goods. Whenever the economy grows due to a technological advance or taxpayer investment in infrastructure, land owners are the main beneficiaries through higher rents and land prices - unless an LVT is applied to recoup some of the unearned profits. It also discourages under-utilisation of land and land speculation and encourages investment where land prices are low, off-setting some of the attractions of high land cost area's like city centres.

[@motimobo]

WInston Churchill was a proponent and made and eloquent case for it: "The landlord who happens to own a plot of land on the outskirts of a great city … watches the busy population around him making the city larger, richer, more convenient. .. and all the while sits and does nothing. Roads are made … services are improved … water is brought from reservoirs one hundred miles off in the mountains and -all the while the landlord sits still … To not one of these improvements does the landlord monopolist contribute and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced … At last the land becomes ripe for sale - that means the price is too tempting to be resisted any longer … In fact you may say that the unearned increment … is reaped by the land monopolist in exact proportion not to the service, but to the disservice done." Winston Churchill during debates on the Finance Act 1910

[@cellbiologyshorts9105]

@@motimobo This,

[@richardgoode5314]

London as example by price as to a repay of a mortgage or rent to a payment, as city with compare to a county by a scale with other as city.

[@cellbiologyshorts9105]

This is like the plot of 'People Just Do Nothing'

[@paulbroderick8438]

Perhaps there are still some WW2 air raid shelters that could be renovated! Blame it all on Thatcherism!!

[@thomasgussin2871]

Good old MAGGIE THATCHER allowed me to buy my council house, Now i have two houses one in Northampton and a huge DETACHED HOUSE IN SCOTLAND WITH 3/4 ACHERS OF LAND OVER 150 TREES , Thankyou Maggie !!!!!!!!!!!?

[@KINGCABA-if4nk]

She did something great to improve social mobility to the working class particularly upper working class now living in lower middle or middle-middle class background.

[@twosense4989]

You know people, if u have no education, no career, money, nothing to enable you to even give your child a decent life..... Their is another another choice other than.. "yea I am going to have the baby'

[@avrilroberts42]

Just to let you know they are still trying to do this. I live in Medway Kent, my family s here, my work is here, they offered me a flat in Hartlepool

[@thebestoflondon]

Not hating or being rude but am tired of seeing a bunch of poor people that depend on the goverment complain or cry when the govement makes them homless or give them a houseing situations that they dont like. Birth control has became available in the 20th century dont make kids if your life is in the hands of the goverment. Dont waste money if your in a shit job dobt like like there is no tomorrow if your patner is broke or not ambitious. Its not rocket sicence.

[@M.Manique]

Basically your saying that life should stop just because someone is poor!! Government doesn’t make someone homeless it’s the greedy private landlords get your facts right before you comment there many single parents who can’t work because of disability not because they choose to have kids, life is tuff acknowledge this very fact

[@j_thom]

Eloise is kinda scrumptious looking. . . As one that had childhood asthma, I'm feeling for Kelly's circumstance. You must have ready resources around you that will allow for rapid and appropriate action for this. Asthma is nothing to screw around with. Rest her little boys soul. .

[@M.Manique]

The end so heartbreaking 💔 i cannot imagine what that poor mother has had to go through

[@kernow24]

beggars cant be choosers, support yourself and choose where you live, or rely on the state and they will chose where it;s cheaper for them, why should the tax payer pay £1000+ a month for a london rental when they can get similar elsewhere for 1/3rd of the cost, and a family / homeless person has a roof over their heads part of the problem is people faking 'homelessness' in order to try and get housed by the council in a cheaper rent place, you see it all the time, people claiming to have been chucked out of their parents place etc many people who are told they need to be moved elsewhere suddenly find somewhere else to stay be that with family or in a private let, councils are wise to the games these people are playing. if you are genuinely homeless then you will take anywhere that is offered. you see the same when people do finally get offered a council / housing association place, people are way too fussy, turning down a property because its a flat and not a house etc when those that are genuinely in need will take literally anything they are offered.

[@lilyrose7082]

The UK takes better care of their homeless than America does!! It’s a disgrace here and the rents in this country have grown out of control so much so that, whole families are living on the street even if both parents work! There’s no flats they can afford and there’s no end in sight! Also, disabled and elderly getting evicted with no recourse bc landlords today want you to make 3 X’s the amount of the rent! A 1 bedroom in Massachusetts is $2100.00 per month with no utilities and you’d have to make $6300.00 a month to get the apartment! Disgusting! But, good in ya Britain! At least you put ppl in temporary housing so they don’t have to go to the streets!

[@stuartfitch7093]

The cancer which is london spreads out into the shires. Places like where I live have always had far less investment from government in infrastructure and are therefore already overburdened with the requirements of people local born and bred, the last thing we need is extra people coming in from the likes of London. An example of this is in recent years we have seen an ever growing number of londoners relocating to my area. They are buying up local houses because they've plenty of money after selling up in London. But that means there is then a shortage of housing for locals and prices are going up rapidly and as local wages a very low compared to the likes of london, it means local children are priced out of any kind of house of their own.

[@raymondsinclair4]

population problem. too many people. We all need to have smaller families. give tax breaks and incentives and stop viewing population as something to profit from and ignore the problem.

[@viewerabundzu6887]

this can’t, mustn’t go on, decent people, hard working, intelligent, Jesus everyone deserves a roof over their head, a community that they can live and work in, and thrive. Greed, unfair distribution of wealth has a lot to answer for in UK

[@marcb8934]

Hey London could build more tower blocks and have them derelict in 10 to 40 years onwards

[@zcharg0]

Socialism

[@moltitrader]

BORRIS JOHNSON ruined Renting scheme by introducing (affordable rent) which is double the price of social rent. How do you manage to call something twice the price affordable. I call it (BORRIS RENT) so people relate better to it. I rent a housing association 1 bed for £220 at newly created (affordable rent) a month but previous tenants paid £110 at (social rent). BORRIS doubled the price literally. BORRIS is after all the land lord class, what does he know about working class.

[@leban8155]

How can they move people 100s of miles away when they have lived all their lives in London? This is wrong.

[@ralphcotton7119]

Why?

[@OMG-seriously]

@@ralphcotton7119 because everything is not about serving the rich. There is such thing as affordable council homes and they are not being built

[@murielmoloney1043]

Where are the fathers

[@VCYT]

I had to move 25 miles across london to east greenwich - to stay in london. Its quite though.

[@khawlah4085]

How did u do it please because i want to move just out my enfield borough to another borough in london not outside because i have a son with mobility issues

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION THE HOUSING PROBLEM IS CAUSED BY GREEDY DEVOLOPERS SPECULATORS ESTATE AGENTS, SORRY I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER

[@simple22travel11]

Pretty sure that real estate is in a bubble and eventually prices will come back down to earth.

[@sarahgreening9286]

Always waltham forest every documentary.

[@justsomekid33]

Evil tory government

[@loaded8588]

Labour run London

[@maguirefire3190]

scrap the greenbelt! would make a good start

[@SnazzBot]

Maguire Fire no it wouldn't would massively increase flooding and lower air quality.

[@gavinreid8351]

No need to build on green belt. Many sites in London available. Builders push for green field building because it is more financially lucrative for them.

[@maguirefire3190]

This is simple stuff, London needs to expand if more people want to live there, London currently is the most expensive place to build in the world, its not easy building in London but that's what they've been doing and thats what causes over populated urban areas, with higher pollution higher crime, and more congestion. the supply of houses and supply of land is no where close to meeting demand, Greenfield is alot more practical and cheaper to build on, and would be even more cheaper if the greenbelt protections where scrapped altogether as the supply of land on the outer cities would outstrip the unbuilt land on the inner cities by 100 fold atleast, London Birmingham all the major cities have this same problem from 70 year old protections that only people in the nice outer part of the cities benefit from! if these protections weren't put in all that time ago London could have been more cheaper, and a less congested place, simple stuff, referendum on the green belt would settle this

[@Denis-tg6jw]

Maguire Fire Developers will love what you say, but the truth is we cannot build our way out of every problem. Destroy greenbelt and you destroy productive farmland and what about roads, schools hospitals that must then be built ? Do you think developers will build those? There are three thousand empty and disused properties in the town in which I live. The same is probably true for many towns in England. Put these places back into use and then talk about building more.

[@silentmentor5888]

So then...no husbands in England? No maternal or paternal grandparents ?Each child comes into this world with 6 adults who could kick in to feed cloth and provide . Or is family not a thing in England? How did the tough as nails WW2 generation turn into people that expect to be taken care of by their neighbors paycheck instead of families helping each other.

[@jarodarmstrong509]

She needs to spend less on lip injections lol

[@christopher9727]

Jesus is the hope John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God

[@stuartparkinson6061]

Maidstone sounds like where the channel tunnel comes out.