Image via WikipediaI grew up on a large council estate on the outskirts of London.Being a council estate it had its fair share of poverty and the problems associated with that but the vast majority of people who lived on the estate were decent, hard working people.Most people tended to live on the estate for decades, some for a lifetime, with many handing there homes down to sons and daughters so it was a stable community, with a strong community spirit where people cared about one another and there community.I think government proposals to end the lifetime tenancies of council tenants and force people to move if their finances improve will ruin many good communities and make council estates little more than poor ghettos of people who are here today and gone tomorrow. It will end all chance of establishing close, stable communities and will inevitably lead to more social problems which the government said they wanted to tackle but which we have heard little more about since the election.
This policy is short sighted and is all to do with cuts not about tackling the housing shortages or improving communities.It will do great harm and damage the lives of many. Its shameful and I hope that when Labour come back into government they will reverse these damaging changes.
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