All I’ve saw last 24 hours is how it’s unfair that asylum seekers get treated better than our own homeless people so I’m gonnae clear a few things up here. Whilst I think the social housing system is totally fucked and needs fixed, asylum seekers aren’t ‘given priority’
Unfortunately the vast majority of our homeless have substance abuse issues and/or live very chaotic lifestyles that mean that they never meet the conditions of temporary accommodation. Most hostels will expect residents not to abuse drink or drugs firstly for the staffs safety
Secondly to try and keep the hostel in some sort of reasonable condition. I say vast majority as I know that there are people without issues who slip through the cracks and this shouldn’t happen. Also those homeless without substance issues may lead chaotic lifestyles due to
Mental health issues of all kinds again these types of people are unlikely to keep to the conditions of temporary housing (being in at a certain time, not smashing the room up, not posing a danger to themselves and staff) when you think about it asylum seekers are likely to come
Reasonably stick to the rules (obv I am aware of yesterday’s incident) so they will tick the boxes get permanent housing faster etc. Is this right? No, not at all.
The housing system needs to be fixed asap. We can’t continue to just have people sleeping rough in all conditions, putting themselves in danger and living below an acceptable standard of life because they don’t fit into a broken system for something as imperative as a roof over
Their heads. It’s not right at all. Places like the bellgrove exclusively house people with substance abuse issues, it’s not nice driving past there never mind fuckin living there but people have to PAY to stay there with no government support, PAY from their own benefit money
To stay in the bellgrove. It’s sickening because anyone with a substance abuse issue will tell you that given the choice between money to fund their addiction or money to stay somewhere, their addiction will win.
Anyway all in all, asylum seekers aren’t to blame they simply fit the criteria that the our shitey local councils have set. Why not blame the Goverment, the people WHO WORK FOR US who we elected but act as if they don’t answer to the people. Why are they not fighting for change?
I really don’t know what the answer is to fix the housing system, I wish I did because I would do something about it I’m not an addiction or mental health counsellor but SURELY TO FUCK between ALL of the people employed in those roles they can come up with something, anything
To make the system better for the most vulnerable of us within our society. But unfortunately bureaucracy wins and positions those with issues as ‘less’ than others in society.
Give you an example, I had a good job within DWP and left because it would have sent me off my nut. I used to regularly see this client, he was homeless. He got a community care grant to help him buy clothes etc and he used the money to buy himself a tent.
He lived in the tent at a busy train station in the east end of Glasgow. The people who worked in the local swimming used to let him in every morning to get washed and not charge him. When I asked why is he living in a tent, why has he not been referred for temp accommodation
The answer was ‘because he drinks’. So because he had an addiction, a man who cared enough to buy himself a tent and go get showered daily wouldn’t be allowed temp accommodation.
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