Just a quick one for all the "i pay my taxes" etc lot.
You do realise that in social housing it's not just work shy, thieving s that live in them.
The elderly & disabled also live in them.
I know a couple of people who lvie in "social housing" which are mixed amongst privately owned houses.
Of those houses they are by far the better neighbours, not noisy, look after their gardens etc as they know if they mis-behave they won't have a house to live in.
I know there's always the exception but not everyone's a fkwit.

Hence why, in my earlier post, I stated that it's not the housing that's the issue, it's the people in them.

I'm sorry if my post came across as suggesting that it is just people being given a free house etc, I didn't mean to infer that. There is very much a need, and every justification for providing housing for those who are willing to try and help themselves.

I think some of you are confusing social housing with affordable housing, which includes shared equity and shared ownership properties, bought by people who work, pay taxes and have mortgages, but need a hand up due to restrictive mortgage lending by banks.

The biggest problem 'tenants' in the town I live in is from large 4-6 bed new build houses being bought by those that couldn't afford the mortgage, then let out to huge families of reprobates who get the rent paid by the DSS, let their manky kids run riot until all hours, and leave their gardens looking like the jungle.

So...presence of social housing on a new build estate says nowt about the type of person who will likely live there.

I have direct experience on both counts, firstly I work for a housing association and secondly I live on a relatively new build close which has a mixture of o/o, btl, private rentals and social housing. In my experience I've never had a problem with the s/h, it's the private rentals that do my head in! Parties and old bangers rotting in the car park! I do however get my alarm serviced yearly! Lol

From my employment point of view it is the 1% minority who tar everyone else with the same brush. It is also different from town to town. In my local area generally everyone is very respectful of their neighbours and really look after their houses which makes my life easier! An hour up the road however my life gets difficult! (I work in maintainance). The properties are not looked after and are general st heaps! It doesn't help that the association doesn't have a big enough budget to maintain as we would like, given the right budget we could make the houses really great. However it doesn't help with the tenants mind set. They have different life skills and have been brought up differently others.

From a management point of view I can see why people don't want to live near s/h, but if you doand are having problems complain complain complain. They will get moved on eventually. Just feel sorry for who gets them next.

So do I but I'm getting out before I can't sell it at any price

Went past your place Sat. Very quiet round there, you'd never know!

An awful lot of the residents living in social housing (Council housing) are total scum and don't help themselves at all. We have a small amount of these houses near us. They let the whole area down. Most have really skanky gardens littered with fag buts and dog st, England flags in the windows, rusty cars and vans blocking the streets, fat bints sat outside the front of the house smoking spliffs all day. When I walk my dog past this area you can nearly always hear the occupants shouting at their kids or screaming profanities at each other. Why do chavs shout all the time? have they not learnt to go over to the person they want to communicate with and talk? There is a rule that no white Van type vehicles are allowed to be parked on a permanent basis on our development, when I complained to the council, I was told that the social housing occupants have different rules, because most of them are blue collar workers and rely on their vans, they are exempt from this rule! But none of them bloody work! They use their vans as far as I have witnessed for fly tipping! Also we pay an annual fee for the maintenance to communal area's, grass cutting etc, most of this communal land is around the social housing area, yet they pay diddly squat! In the couple of years of living here I have witnessed chav kids setting light to tyres, dumping rotting mattresses on the communal playground, using portable BBQ's on the grass in this same playground scorching the grass, then emptying it on the grass, littering same area with beer cans. Luckily we only have one road of about 5 houses near us like this. Dread to think what it would be like if there were more.
I should add, there is one Social home in this road lived in by some pensioners, their home is extremely well kept. Why don't they put the scum in tower blocks, and the more civilised more deserving tenants into the nicer areas.

Because it loses votes?

This has happened in Broughton in MK, massive expensive homes surrounded by social housing all piled in, as tight as they can build them. It's st.

At least with the old way you could just plain avoid the scummy areas, Fishermead, Conniburrow, The Lakes, but now it's all mixed in. No way on earth do I ever want to buy or rent in any of the new estates purely for that reason.