My solution to single mothers & social housing ?

Monty. wrote: »

There are lots of very empty hotels out there, with leisure centres etc., that would be glad to keep them as well.

I bet you're the type of person who was sad to see the Magdalene Laundries close.

This thread makes me sad.

Can't believe some of the things I'm reading. What we need is more regulation, not forcing families to share houses.
There is a lot of stigma attached to coming from a single parent family and we should do everything to remove this stigma not make it worse. I'm saying this as a child of a single mother im an adult now though obviously

rebecca 30 wrote: »

Mmmm

I am a single mum, 2 kids, have mortgage , feck all support from kids Dad, training to be an accounted , how .ucken dare ye talk about all single mothers like that , we are not all like that . Get over yourself

whats the rate for an accounted these days.

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Phase out childrens allowance altogether, so the lower classes can't afford to breed like rats.

seriously, if ye dont know WTF you're shltin on about, dont ask for a slap by displaying your ignorance, it just makes you look.......:rolleyes: thick..everybody gets childrens allowance, regardless of income...

dublin daz wrote: »

Sure we might as well just open up the convents / industrial schools. That would reduce the housing list by 100%

While I don't agree with fraud, I think the family, in any form married or unmarried deserve to live with dignity.

+1, no-ones circumstances are the same, not all "lone parents "were single mothers, theres an unhealthy amount of blokes who think nothing of walking away from thier off spring without so much as a glance over the shoulder

Rabidlamb wrote: »

It's their choice whether or not they leave mammy, same as anyone growing up.
Most houses will have an incumbent so let them decide from the 3 candidates near the top of the list.

:D ahhh, the idealist who has never fallen on hard times, nor has any-one close to them....there but for the grace of god go I

chucken1 wrote: »

Wow!

indeed

El Weirdo wrote: »

Rent Allowance/Supplement needs to be cut in order to make it more financially feasable for people to take offers of social housing.

At present many families are better off in private rented accommodation with the state paying their rent than they would be in social housing paying (max) ~€75p/w in rent.

hahahahha again, such ignorance, the council charge you 15 % of your income, the rent allowance pay considerably less, and if you try to work a few hrs during the week, you lose euro to euro what you earn over 55 e per week, ditto if you are doing a "fas" course, or indeed anything to improve your circumstances....so nooooooo, rent allowance traps you in a hole, it certainly doesnt make life easy, if anything its quite the opposite

chucken1 wrote: »

Ive a friend working in Limerick corpo housing section and shes told me stories of people refusing houses. I dont understand that at all.

I was in a caravan with 2 small children for over 5 years(simply because in the 90's,landlords refused to rent to a one parent family..small town Ireland) before I was offered any house and I jumped at the 1st one I was allocated.

Its been home for many years now

while yes, i understand your confusion, you cannot condemn some-one for not taking a house when you dont know the circumstances, if you dont know the area

Zebra3 wrote: »

I think that all those retired politicans, all such patriots, who are on generous state pensions should have a lone parent and her kid(s) move in with them.

Family off the waiting list.

Patriotic politican continues to serve country.

Taxpayer saves money.

Win, win, win!!!!!

I think Im in luuuuuurve

rebecca 30 wrote: »

Mmmm

I am a single mum, 2 kids, have mortgage , feck all support from kids Dad, training to be an accounted , how .ucken dare ye talk about all single mothers like that , we are not all like that . Get over yourself

+1, we're not all "spongers"

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Well you choose him, are you not going to take some responsibility for your own choices ?

wish there was a YAWN smilie, you're ignorance is becoming boring...of course it smacks somewhat of misogyny but hey,its all the womans fault for opening her legs....just for semantics, whats your view on abortions??

Stained Class wrote: »

Good for you & I admire you're work.

In most cases, though, single mothers raise kids who will be nothing but a problem for other people to deal with & pay for..

i strongly disagree with this, though I can see why most peoples opinions are similiar...however, how come its the single mothers that are being blamed for being a drain on the government when even after the melt-down and the gov mortaged us up to the hilt, the bank staff were still getting bonuses?? there was sweet f8ck a;; about that outrage on boards..or the fact that the banks, on the promise of the floater was supposed to take extra consideration against people losing thier homes.....but they wouldnt commit, and were given the bailout anyway,only to evict people anyway :eek::eek::eek: dont remember any threads on that......:rolleyes: pissed off with this whole 'social abuse' shlte on here when in reality, its a pittance in comparison to what these **** have cost us......pickin on the woing demographic lads..and thats by design......all together now "bahahahahhah". bleat like sheep

Monty. wrote: »

Hotels ? I bet you're the type of person that likes to try and twist peoples words but is not very good at it.

Almost as good as you are at making ill-judged and ignorant comments about single mothers and where they should be kept.

Monty. wrote: »

Polls ? You should have went to specsavers.

That should read "Should have gone to Specsavers"

Sounds like the first stages of genocide. Isolate a portion of society in these huge ghost estates. Sounds a little too much like forcing people to live somewhere they don't

mickydoomsux wrote: »

A lot of my sisters friends have kids and live with the father but are pretending they are single mothers and they are making a living out of it. I'm not saying it's the same in 100% of cases but there are definitely people gaming the system to their advantage because it's so easy.

She has gotten into arguments with a few of them because they tend to use the phrase "when i get my house" to describe all the stuff they'll demand from the council when they hit the top of the housing list. Roughly half of them turned down the first house they were offered because it wasn't new. They all got their houses fully furnished and got to pick their fitted kitchens and wardrobes before they moved in.

Most of them live in the one estate in the town that had houses going for €250,000+ in it a few years ago. I feel sorry for the mugs living beside them that are locked into a 35 year mortgage.

Im sorry, but to me this is pure myth, this shiiiiiiiite doesn't happen. If you're on a council list, all houses are the same, ALLL of them. This is pure hate mongering, and is soo untrue

you dont get a council house in the middle of a private estate, you just dont, maybe in an estate behind/beside/infront, but deffo not inside the same one....and noooo they dont get the same fitted wardrobes/kitchens yada/yada...
its this kind of unfounded hate-mongering that is really annoying, because its untrue