Britain to evict poor out of rich areas

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/148202.html


The UK councils in London have revealed plans to prepare a mass exodus of low-income families from the capital because of the coalition government's benefit cuts.


Representatives of London boroughs told a meeting of MPs last week that councils have already block-booked bed and breakfasts and other private accommodations outside the capital to house those, who will be priced out of the London market.

Councils in the capital are warning that 82,000 families - more than 200,000 people - face losing their homes because private landlords will not cut their rents to the level of caps imposed by the government.

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Another unnamed minister said the benefit changes would usher in a phenomenon similar to the Highland Clearances in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when landlords evicted thousands of tenants from their homes in the North of Scotland.

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"It is an exercise in social and economic cleansing," he said, claiming that families would be thrown into turmoil, with children having to change schools and those, who work, having to travel long distances to their jobs. "It is tantamount to cleansing the poor out of rich areas - a brutal and shocking piece of social engineering," Cruddas added.
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Britain - charging backwards

:nuke:

With a dash of salt and a grind of pepper with some garlic...

Swiftian solution.

:crazy: :wow: that's amazing.

That way, nobody complains.

Just a few messy suicides to clean up, no probs.

The rich rule

Not that it was important to anyone but those directly affected.

Pump up the house prices for retirees who want to live in a nice area and push out the locals who can't afford the houses in their own area.

http://www.homes4locals.com/

It is because we are more civilized.
We use the quaint term "gentrification"...evict is such a nasty word with negative connotations.

probably less of a racial angle as well

Or Detroit.

Take a Google Earth cruise over Detroit at a low level if you think Detroit has been "gentrified". People are moving out all the time, but those are the people that can afford to move out.

in preparation for a sea change in demographics. I'm talking long term, not short term.

They are only tearing down the empty houses.

Might that land be developed someday? It might.

Is anybody being forced out now or in the near future? No.

Might, some day, if land in Detroit becomes desirable again, enough new construction and rehab take place to raise prices of homes such that someone who stuck it out gets forced out of their home by rising assessments and taxes? Maybe.

What is your guess as to when that will happen? 2050??

Sounds eerily similarly to what has happened in San Francisco, Seattle, New York and many other US cities.

It is wildly expensive, and this is just another major step in an ongoing gutting of the city, removing that which made it what it is. NYC did it, and is still doing it. LA pushes them around, then out.

Much deadlier

RR cut housing aid... So did we move the poor to cheaper areas, as is being done in london?

No.. Threw families into the streets...

Thank you kindly, Republican leaders.
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An overview of hmlssnss-----

--Gates has $50 Billion

At 10% total market return, he gets a yearly income of five billion.

So, every year, just 20% of the income of ONE billionaire would

end ALL homelessness forever.

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Based on "hmslss die at three times normal rate" and excluding the sizeable percent of those entering hmlsnss who were weak at entry.....and based on one million hmlss on any one night....

Then one finds that about

10 000/ month die from the effects of hmlssnss. Ten thousand.

The heat, cold, rat bites, crime, stress, disease, lack of sleep,
feces-urine-plus-flies in the area,
no safe way to store any medicine once they fall ill, no way to refrigerate meds that need it, etc.
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RR's cut of 2/3's of housing rent aid in the early '80's caused the beginning of the first mass hmlssnss since the Great Depression.

Blame shifters try to blame other things, but bottom line is...no matter how messed up a person is...from other things....., rent aid will give 99% of them shelter.

One billion/year ends homelessness forever.

We had lived there for many years. I went to school and graduated there. I remember going to school and looking at the senior citizens sitting outside the small hotels enjoying the weather. When we went through Lincoln Road on our way home it was quiet, and almost every night there was an old lady in a bench who had fallen asleep while reading. Then the worst happened and South Beach became "hip". We were all driven out by the brutal increase in rent.

I miss it. I miss that it was the only place in Miami where you could walk everywhere and if you needed a break you had the beach right there and staring at the ocean was an easy and free way to relax. I wish I could go back, I can't even dream of affording a place there.

I'm surprised this is new. I thought this was pretty common everywhere