Comments by "P M" (@pm2886) on "ITV News" channel.

  1. No one 'deserves' housing. What a greedy sense of entitlement you have! Everyone has to earn their keep. No one is so special that they should be given what they need, just for existing.
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  2. They can, but their expectations are so absurd (they must have their own private residence, in a big expensive city .. etc etc) that nothing is likely to change for them.
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  3. @Ayat78 You have two options. Work smarter (train for a higher paying job), or live on less. There's no third option. You might find that offensive, but that would merely be a reflection of a sense of entitlement. You're offended that there isn't a third option.
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  4. What possible business is it of yours, why a property owner wants you out? It could be for any reason, or no reason at all. It's HER property, and she can do whatever she likes with it.
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  5.  @sophiadouglaswagner  Multigenerational is how it should always have been done. This housing problem is happening because we STOPPED doing that.
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  6.  @heliotropezzz333  Yes, that's why it's cheaper. Obviously. There's also no beach, or ski fields. If you want premium locations (with lots of jobs and great transport, or a beach, or skiing, or whatever) you have to pay for them. You're not entitled to them just because you exist.
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  7.  @Stuark54  That's weird, because I'm not a boomer. I can ask my parents though, if you like.
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  8.  @stephendiggines9122  Dude .. if you think 'empathising' with people who are so entitled they expect to live in the most expensive locations on earth, alone, on a minimum wage job, and have hard working tax payers who don't get to live in such places, fund it - you have a very warped sense of what makes someone awful. I'm not the one demanding struggling families fund my London pad. You might be, though.
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  9. Oh you think this is a result of Brexit? The same thing is happening everywhere in the West. Plus in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia - three very 'global' countries, with Left wing governments. I think you need to take your tinfoil hat off .. it's obscuring your vision.
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  10. ​​ @heliotropezzz333 Sure, if you prefer to work your ass off just to maintain a lifestyle. Which is what you're doing if you try to live in areas you can't afford, or try to live alone. Those are lifestyle choices you don't have to make. It's not Govt's responsibility to save you if you choose to live beyond your means.
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  11.  @heliotropezzz333  So don't live in a big city. And of course it's a choice to live alone. It's a choice to be single, or not share with family or friends, etc etc.
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  12.  @heliotropezzz333  Excuses. If you intend to share your life with others, you live accordingly. It's a choice YOU make.
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  13.  @swolfe9668  Exactly my point. Thank you for backing me up!
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  14.  @swolfe9668  Careful, you'll be told you're an awful human being (you're not, for the record).
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  15.  @didforlove  Anyone who's worked for 40 years, could have paid off their own home. Houses were much more affordable then, and 40 years is plenty of time to pay one off. People who rent for 40 years, then end up in a trailer, have therefore done it to themselves. They made bad choices.
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  16. This is all personal problems, though. Nothing to do with 'council'. A mother who can't be relied on, and who would throw her pregnant daughter under the bus to move in with an ex? Yeah .. that's not a council problem.
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  17.  @janinewetzler5037  People on low incomes should not be attempting to live in these cities. It's insane.
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  18. The problem is that generations of safety and plenty, made us believe we shouldn't have to do all that life admin. We're spoiled babies.
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  19. Yes it is. Which is why it's so hard to understand those who are working or middle class, who choose to rent. What do they think is going to happen when they retire? Seriously? How can anyone go through an entire adult life, never once thinking about how they'll survive on a pension?
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  20. Toronto is one of the most expensive cities in the world. What are you doing there, if you can't afford it?
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  21.  @iansharp7422  There isn't a lack of affordable rentals in Australia. Australia currently has an historically low vacancy rate in almost all states. That would not be possible if people couldn't afford the rents. There would be loads of vacancies.
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  22.  @roja7426  Except those are individual PERSONAL matters. The reality in the broader scheme of things, is that there is nothing .. no law or force .. preventing people from moving. Just like anything else most of us peasants have to work towards, so too do we need to work towards moving - IF it's a high priority. The key is that nothing outside ourselves is stopping us.
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  23.  @iansharp7422  Once again though .. if rents were NOT affordable, there would be loads of vacancies. Far more renters would choose to buy (any cheap place they can find, anywhere), because over their lifetime it would save them a fortune. Since that's not happening, and vacancies are at all time low .. then clearly plenty of people can afford currents rents. An individual's personal situation is not relevant in this scenario - IOW how any one individual pays their rent. They're paying, so they can afford it. Some will choose to stay in areas they can no longer afford, so they'll obvously struggle, but if they're paying then ipso facto - they can afford it. And it's voluntary remember. They could buy their own place, or move someone cheaper, or team up with family to cut costs. If they're not doing any of those obvious things, then it's a choice to pay those high rents and struggle.
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  24.  @bonariablackie4047  Thinking any old degree (even from Cambridge) is going to keep you fed and housed, is idiotic. You could have a PhD, but if it's in Feminist Dance Theory you're going to be hungry.
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  25.  @josephjones1093  It's not about how much you earn, it's about your CHOICES. Are you choosing to live in places you can't afford, and expect to have your own private residence in those places?
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  26. What does the Govt have to do with it? They're not your daddy. If you want to see change, BE the change. Go live collectively with extended family, and lead by example. Show others how it's done.
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  27.  @ccr10833  It's not lack of information, it's lack of will. Even children know how to save money. Adults CHOOSE not to.
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  28.  @RevengeOfTheDarkKnight  Nope. SOME degrees will never keep you fed and housed (eg Arts degrees). Obviously, if you're not from a rich family, you have no business taking such degrees. They're only for people who don't need to work for a living. For everyone else, it must be a degree in a field of high demand and good pay. That means STEM. If you're poor, and you want to go to university, you damned well better make sure you take medicine, or engineering, or dentistry, or computer science, or food science, or agricultural science, etc etc. Fields which always need people, and which pay well. The upshot is that if you deliberately chose a 'rich person' degree (arts or whatever), and now find yourself struggling, you have no one to blame but yourself. You could have made a better choice - and if you were socially responsible, you would have. You had no business making yourself a potential burden on the state.
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  29.  @SMD965OFFICIAL  90%+ of homeless people are addicts. And they were addicts before they were homeless. That's your answer. Homelessness isn't an economic problem .. it's a social decay problem.
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  30.  @Zibi21  Will NEVER happen. People are already afraid .. there's no way they'll take that kind of risk. The only way is for people to protect themselves by adjusting to conditions. If that means sharing a house with two other families, so be it. Either earn more money, or live in an affordable way. There isn't third option.
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  31.  @josephjones1093  Irrelevant. If they're on a low income and choosing to live in one of the most expensive locations on earth, they're OBJECTIVELY and TANGIBLY living beyond their means. There's no way to make that untrue. The fact that they end up living in poverty, is the evidence of that truth. The sense of entitlement which drives people to expect these ultra-expensive locations on a modest income, is incredible. They're not prepared to live in less expensive areas, they're not prepared to earn enough to afford the big city, and they're not prepared to share with extended family the way migrants do. They want to have their cake and eat it .. then they're shocked when they can't pay their power bill. You just can't help some people.
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  32.  @josephjones1093  No idea what you're saying here, sorry.
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  33.  @josephjones1093  They live in London because they can AFFORD to live in London. Lots of people can afford to live in London. The question is, why do you feel entitled to, when you can't afford it? I'd love to live at the beach, but I can't afford it so I don't. I don't demand to live there, like some spoiled brat. And I especially don't expect the hard working tax payer to fund me a house at the beach! That would make me a raging asshole.
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  34. By living at home with family, of course. That's how it was always done, and how smart young people are still doing it.
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  35. Govts are not responsible for keeping you fed and housed.
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  36. If working and middle class people had made the effort to buy their own place, this wouldn't be happening. The only way to stop corporate investors and AirBB etc, is to buy houses before they can.
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  37.  @SamuelBlack84  Because the people who whine loudest about the cost of housing, are the people who think they're entitled to live in the most expensive places on earth.
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  38. Yeah .. that's always a red flag. The question has to be asked .. why? Every one of my friends would house me in a crisis. As would even the most 'lowlife' of my relatives. And they'd do that because they know I'm not a grifter, and would only need help in a genuine (as in outside my control) crisis. They know me well enough to know any problems would not be a result of poor choices.
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  39. When was housing ever a charity? And no, nothing will change. At least not the way you hope it will. Housing will keep increasing in price.
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  40. Subsidised housing is the worst possible response to this problem. Either build it and SELL it to the citizens at cost price, the way Singapore does, or don't do it at all. Subsidised public housing just entrenches poverty.
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  41. Who is forcing them to stay in those jobs?
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  42. ​ @heliotropezzz333  Yes, I got that. My point was that if you need to work four jobs to maintain your chosen lifestyle, you've done so of your own free will. You don't get to demand taxpayers fund you just because you want to live in an expensive city, or live alone.
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  43. Why on earth would anyone who isn't rich, attempt to live on their own? THAT'S one of the main problems here.
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  44.  @michelledavies2197  How about putting restrictions on how few people can live in a single dwelling? Like .. no sole occupants, ever!
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  45.  @anthonyharris2930  Nothing is preventing families and first time buyers from buying properties now.
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  46. It won't take 25 years to reach catastrophe. I'd give it ten. People are just sitting around waiting for salvation (as though salvation was ever coming ... LOL), so it's going to be quick. The majority of those now struggling, are doing NOTHING to save themselves. They've convinced themselves that it's someone else's job to save them. It may be the first time in human history, we just gave up at the first sign we might have to make some kind of effort. We're thoroughly and completely spoiled. The welfare state saw to that.
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  47. No .. ALL sensible people quickly realised how important it was to own a place. Especially those of us who aren't rich. Investors aren't the only people who need to keep abreast of changes in the economy. The common man has to also. In fact it's even more important for the common man, because it's his survival.
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  48.  @davisholman8149  Correct. That's why calling it an affordability problem is nonsense. It clearly IS affordable, else there wouldn't be record-breaking low vacancy rates.
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  49.  @reddyforlenny9389  Those are NOT rental vacancies. They're not in the rental pool.
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  50.  @wayneegli8379  No. They leave them empty deliberately. They're choosing not to rent them out. They're perfectly entitled to do that, too. Just as you are, if you own property you don't want to rent out.
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