Saturday, January 31, 2009

Housing 'Trust' Homes

I've lost count of the number of those TV exposés where they show you the trashed Housing Trust home, show you pictures of what looks like a garbage dump and then tells you that the previous occupants had been moved to a nice new home.

Why? How is is that some people get to stay on the list for years while others go through home after home, trashing each one, but are then given a new one?

The answer is probably something simple like no one in that government department takes any responsibility for what happens. Or it could be worse and there is some clause in the housing trust laws that states an occupant must be given a new place no matter what they did to the last one.

Whatever the reason it is wrong. You should get one change at a free house and if you destroy it you don't get another chance. Instead it should go to someone else in the queue who will probably take much better care of a home when they get one.

For some reason that is certainly beyond my understanding, the worse or more feral someone or a family is the more they get for free. The worse they behave the more they get. The administrators forget that they are supposed to protect the trust of the public, the ones that pay taxes for all these welfare schemes, and do the right things for all.

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