Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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Housing in Dover is at crisis level, in fact any houses on market for rent is having lists of people wanting to rent these! Even the worst properties are being looked at and lived in, in desperation for a home. House price surging sky high out of reach of youngsters wanting to start out or putting them into extreme high mortgage payments leaving them penny less before their pay month is near.
The councils bidding site is a disgrace leaving hundreds without a chance to ever gain a home fighting for one or more property when it comes and only sick, disabled having any real chance of scraping a home in social housing when 'one' does come up. Children are living in appalling living conditions, some living with over crowded conditions sharing bedrooms with their parents.
Where is all the council homes?
Where is all the housing association homes?
Where is any homes for Single/couples/families to rent without being ripped off by private landlords?
Rents are now reaching £700 to £1,000 for a decent home and £500 to £600 for home you don't really want to pay such price for and live in, but will pay because there is nothing else!
Ex council Whitfield - Private rented 700 to 900 rent a month under private landlord who bought the house s -that just an example.
Social Housing was sold off and all its done is to make landlords of the future putting on high rents making mega money out of the misery of people in this town and other towns , laying foundations for housing problems - DONT MAKE SENSE WHATSOEVER AND STILL SELLING IS GOING ON - we have hundreds and hundreds of children in this town - were taking in from other countries-what is children of this down future????
NO JOBS NO HOUSING TAKING IN OTHERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES- WHO'S GOT AN ANSWER??
If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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Just found this on you tube same as I am saying so he can explain more verbally
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Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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On more funny side to explain the house prices and struggles in UK
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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I was paying c£500/month rent back in 2004.
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Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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You were being ripped off big time then Button's unless you lived in a very nice house which will cost over 800 now.
Government created this opening flood gates to work in UK of course they had to have housing renting or otherwise. Then the immigrant crises put huge strain on UK Dover took most battering of this, with our resources stripped dry so towns people suffered and suffer for this.
I just want to know when this Government is going to skill its own people without huge costs and hurdles and when they going to close the gates to our little Gold mine that everyone from every country wants to come and dig for Gold, whilst doing it taking up our precious properties.
Whats the point of our educating children with school to College then to Uni giving big idea's of Jobs for them to come out only to find there is Jack sxxt for them they end up working in McD's or Tesco. And that is going on big time!. Thank god for Brexit for one maybe will solve some of this, but huge damage done now.
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Button- Location: Dover
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Actually, the £500/month rent for a furnished townhouse in Tower Hamlets was, if anything, below par for the course as the landlord was a personal friend. All my kids, and those of my friends, are in employment, and at least 5 of them own their own house. Personally I see nothing wrong in working in the retail sector, although, yes, Brexit may well provide job opportunities in the "border" sector (and 4 of them are already in it).
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,000
Looking at the local stats for births and deaths, roughly 400 of us drop dead each year in the district and 200 are born. Housing crisis? Go figure!
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/424"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,835
If that is the case why do so many have trouble finding somewhere to live?
Why are homeless people sleeping in shop doorways or sofa surfing?
Could it be the lack of affordable housing or is that answer to simple for some who are sitting comfortably in their cozy homes to understand.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
trouble is jan most of the rough sleepers have a flat, house, bungalow. most choose to rough sleep to top up there benefits.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Problem is Jan that since Jobseekers Allowance is higher than average Romanian wage we have had more Romanians move to UK (for example) in last decade than Irish since dawn of time!
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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Button wrote:Actually, the £500/month rent for a furnished townhouse in Tower Hamlets was, if anything, below par for the course as the landlord was a personal friend. All my kids, and those of my friends, are in employment, and at least 5 of them own their own house. Personally I see nothing wrong in working in the retail sector, although, yes, Brexit may well provide job opportunities in the "border" sector (and 4 of them are already in it).
Nothing wrong working within the retail if that is what you went to school/college/Uni to train for a the job you wanted. We all know how Mc D's treats the youngsters up there I know too well ask anyone who wants to work in Mc'D. What I am saying statistics show not much a lot of these are tampered with. Unless you have older children looking for work or in work wanting to get a home not seeing it then your not tooled up on it unless you know it. Sorry to be harsh here but its like piles you wont know the pain unless you had them. Maybe because its my post its getting not much support although I give a lot of insight to this and there are people posting on youtube who seem to know what I know...strange that.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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AL50, I'm not sure what you find strange about YouTube, but there is a number of non-retail jobs in this neck of the woods.
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Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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AND WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Button- Location: Dover
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Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
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If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
Guest 2307- Registered: 11 Sep 2017
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I've moved around a lot of areas in the UK and overseas and have concluded that many arguments against migration really should not be entertained and often direct discussions of this nature into rather nasty territory.
You only have to go to Folkstone to realise that a higher level of migration is better for the local economy; the high street is much busier, there are more jobs, it's more affluent and the house prices reflect this. Dover is one of the whitest towns I have lived in and if this is the pinnacle of British culture then good God we are in trouble. I have lost count of the number of British families on my street and at my kids' school who do not work and the government encourages them to spawn children through rent subsidies, tax credits etc. Many of them don't even treat their own children with any kind of decency or project any values to encourage them to study, save or work for what is undeniably a difficult future ahead. I would take a hard working immigrant family over a house of spongers any day of the week. What's funny is that other areas which have a high concentration of one ethnicity also suffer similar problems of crime, dilapidation and delinquency. This is not not exclusively to any one culture and people escape this through the socioeconomic structures, of which house prices are a good indicator.
Another problem is the disgusting policy of topping up minimum wages with tax credits, effectively subsidising private rents and allowing companies to pay well below the minimum wage - which is topped up by the taxpayer. The result of this is that the real take-home difference between earning between 16k and 35k is surprisingly small.
I think a great deal of blame can be pointed upon the breakup of traditional single income families which has skewed the housing market in favour or a rentier system where one can obtain a property by foregoing children until later in life or applying two incomes which is to the detriment of a lot of families where there is only one bread winner who simply can't borrow anywhere near the amounts required to get a house suffice for a family.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
It has taken three years to renovate these three houses but whoever gets one of the tenancies won't be complaining.
https://www.dover.gov.uk/News/Press-Releases/2018/Dover-District-Council-Delivers-New-Interim-Homes.aspxRoss Miller likes this
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well done DDC.
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