Tricky
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Comment on: Brixton bailiff shooter jailed for 15 years
No Tenantplus, I am just bored of you laying everything at the door of HAs, instead of accepting that just perhaps it is not all down to the terrible evil providers of social housing. Two people shot, others in fear of their lives and you still want to blame the HA for not evicting the tenant more quickly.
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Comment on: Brixton bailiff shooter jailed for 15 years
I find it beggars belief that Tenantplus can even turn a story like this into an attack on HAs, a story where staff just doing their jobs were attacked and left in fear of their lives. New low Tenantplus, new low.
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Comment on: Social landlord launches £500m market sale arm
"build homes for market sale to generate funds for new social housing."
clue is there if you look for it... -
Comment on: Housing officer who stole more than £14,000 jailed
"and an apology (compensation) from the responsible employer too."
Kindly explain why the employer should be held responsible for the criminal actions of an individual, or do you just thing compensation should alsways be paid out regardless? -
Comment on: Miliband targets foreign investors buying up London property
Didn't Boris suggest this weeks ago?
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Posted in: How about a POLL on the restriction of comments to articles?
D - even though i don't agree with a lot of posters a lot of the time!
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Posted in: Building stronger communities
F451
I read your comments with interest and I have clearly stated that i am engaging on this thread to learn from others. i spent a lot of time in my previous job working with the tenant involvement teams and learned a great deal from them which I have taken with me into my current job - it has greatly improved the relationship between my company and our HA tenants
it does not follow that because I highlight some issues with tenants - which you and other posters seem to usually deny even exist - that I am somehow anti tenant. There are good tenants and there are bad tenants. Everything is not the fault of government, much of it is the fault of the badly behaved tenants.
How do we improve it? I DON'T KNOW. Clear enough? I don't have the answers, but by reading this site I hope to learn so that I can perhaps influence my employers when I can. I am looking for answers though, not people pontificating and posting with such an obvious biased slant.
In this specific thread one poster made many unfounded accusations against myself and another poster - do you not think we have a right to defend ourselves?
its is Friday afternoon, the pubs are open, if you are in the same one as me I will buy you a pint and we can put the world to rights there.
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Posted in: Building stronger communities
F451 - i am not here to tell you what to do (although less condescension would be nice) but if you could possibly address the points that others make?
I don't know how to improve communities, that is why I am interested in this discussion, however I see barriers to improving community. I see feckless lazy work shy tenants who damage their own buildings and environments. You, on the other hand, don't or won't accept that these tenants exist.
I belive that we should support initiatives and I have been involved in community work on developments, but I do think that tenants and the young people must take a certain responsibility for improving themselves and being part of the community
It wasn't me who suggested locking them up in Borstals or clipping them round the ear. I await with interest other peoples views on the sort of initiatives that work (such as Foyer projects)
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Posted in: Building stronger communities
So F451 wants to blame "tenant tax" "bedroom tax" etc for lack of community involvement, whereas Peter Wicks thinks we should be beating our children. Interestng.
F451 - there comes a time when you need to stop hiding behind what you term "demonisation of the poor" and actually open your eyes to the lazy and feckless who are living off benefits with no intention of finding work, who do not look after their own homes and environments and will contribute nothing to the wider community. Whatever you think of Shapps, cameron and all the other MPs (and you do tell us your views often) they are not responsible for what I and other housing and support workers see every single day of our working lives.
Peter - you appear to be living ina fantasised version of the 1950s where the worst crime was scrumping apples. We now have a generation who expect everything on a plate and won't try to self improve as we did when we were young (1970s/1980s for me). You suggested that the government buy bikes so the young people can find work - why can't they buy their own instead of buying plasma tvs and X boxes?
There are lots of succesful projects, but they can only help and support young people, they can't do it all for them
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Posted in: Building stronger communities
So to build "a future for disenfranchised kids of Britain" - we lock them in Borstals? I assume we catch them by "Orwellian" CCTV cameras and neighbours reporting them?
Alternatively - any ideas on how to encourage and work with tenants to improve communities?
