Social Housing

I found this long read article on social housing very sobering. I have always been against social housing as a practice, having seen the massive council estates around London and drawing the conclusion that housing people in that way probably isn't such a great way of creating a cohesive friendly prosperous community. And I still think that. BUT the UK is so deep down in their social housing policy that I don't really think there is any way out of it ever.

Reading the article the cause of the problem is so blatantly obvious I really cannot draw any other conclusion than that the politicians of this country really just don't give a fuck about creating a cohesive friendly prosperous community. Like they can't even try to pretend that's what they want when this is what they have created.

I after reading this walk past the TV and it's PM question time, where they are discussing introducing a mansion tax (people who own a property worth more than £2m are to pay £250 a month to fund the NHS) to raise money for the NHS. And it's like what kind of drugs are you taking? You have created this system and you're utterly incapable or utterly reluctant to see and understand cause and effect.

Doesn't matter what public service you look at, it's like they're all on crack. Millions and millions and millions of pounds spent on management consultants and new measures and cost cutting making the entire system inefficient and expensive. Social housing is now so expensive because we've let private landlords in that the councils can't even afford it, solution - REGULATE. Regulate rents, regulate landlords, you have the power and authority to pass legislation to change things!

But no, let's have some kind of farcical question and answers about some bullshit new inefficient measure completely void of any reality check.

We're all fucked.