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Originally Posted by Merry Kizzmas
What an astute observation, It highlights one issue that the government is getting very wrong.
The social housing lists are creaking and families are crying out for homes, what can be done?
Would single vulnerable occupants of 2/3 bed houses consider an assisted move to local 1 bed ground floor sheltered accomodation?
low level prefabs could be constructed for those who are at present struggling alone, to me it would be an ideal way of protecting the vulnerable in our society...
It would free up affordable family properties and save money by focusing the building on much smaller properties.
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Indeed,they are options,for some as there isn't enough available smaller housing to accommodate the people they want out of the homes they now occupy.
Of course a building programme as to building such housing as you suggest would help on many fronts, opening up larger housing to families and also helping with investment to the construction industry and create a fair few real jobs too.
However, my problem with things as they are is that there is not that other housing to move people to also I don't think they should be forced to move after being given secure tenancies.
The other side too is, the example I illustrated, involves someone with early dementia, it is better from a care angle to keep such people in known surroundings where they are safer while still able to manage in a fashion independently a fair bit of the time.
It is the ruthlessness and heartlessness of the policy that annoys me and which I find really disturbing if I am honest, that any Politician or Govt in the UK in this day and age could bring into being such an unfair and wrong policy.
I see you did say could single vulnerable people be asked to
consider such a move to smaller housing if and when available, I have no problem with that and would agree to it and support it, as long as they are not being forced to move and/or financially discriminated against to do so either.