When will the housing social integration agenda change?

[anonymous-user]

Before you say ask Google, I cannot seem to find anything. May be I am searching for the wrong terms.

All new build developments need to have a number of council homes / housing association on them.

In the words of King Julian (Madagascar): “Whatever happened to the separation of the classes?!”

Will there be any change to this model?! I see some ways how it works but in many ways it equally does not. Not everyone who lives in HA is a bad apple but there are some who are a different orchard!

[austinsmirk]

Section 106. Problem is, if it doesn’t happen land is just used (obviously) for maximum profit.

So you have houses for £500 k rubbing shoulders with social housing. Of course those houses were probably never worth £500k plus, it’s just the nature of a housing market. I think the old school ideal of working and buying a house for say 3.5 times yr salary wasn’t a bad idea

That’s long long gone alas.

[Electro1980]

Super_G said:

Before you say ask Google, I cannot seem to find anything. May be I am searching for the wrong terms.

All new build developments need to have a number of council homes / housing association on them.

In the words of King Julian (Madagascar): “Whatever happened to the separation of the classes?!”

Will there be any change to this model?! I see some ways how it works but in many ways it equally does not. Not everyone who lives in HA is a bad apple but there are some who are a different orchard!

It won’t. Social integration is vital. Also, there are obnoxious people in all income brackets.

[Biggy Stardust]

Electro1980 said:

It won’t. Social integration is vital. Also, there are obnoxious people in all income brackets.

It might be vital to you but it's unimportant to me. If people want to live in nice places then they can put the effort in rather than expecting it to be just given to them.

[turbobloke]

Biggy Stardust said:

Electro1980 said:

It won’t. Social integration is vital. Also, there are obnoxious people in all income brackets.

It might be vital to you but it's unimportant to me. If people want to live in nice places then they can put the effort in rather than expecting it to be just given to them.

One of my lot - grown up kids - lives on a now mature and reasonably quiet estate on the edge of town. A few houses down was a councillor. This councillor was in the local press championing social integration / social inclusion and the benefits of social housing in mixed developments. When permission was given for a new development on land less than half a mile down the road, including social housing, they moved out within weeks, before their house had a SS2C sign up. This was just a coincidence.