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affordable housing and death on our streets

Published on October 10, 2007 at Politics

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Gordon Brown has talked a fair bit about affordable housing and I think this is one of the answers to both poverty of aspiration, gangs and killings.

Affordable housing needs to be part of mixed builds as they are at present but in greater numbers. So that 50-60% of any build must be affordable housing. It may be that builders and developers need to be subsidised because they will not get the top money they have had for the top of the range homes.

There need to be stricter rules about the upkeep of housing, and the way houses are presented when they are council/housing association owned or part owned. There needs to be encouragement towards residents associations right from the start that includes everyone and rewards positive interaction.

We have been encouraged by government and I would encourage everyone to get involved, to interfere where crime is concerned, because a number of the recent street attacks seem to me to have been warning people off interfering a kind of interfere and see what happens to you…you get killed

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“The Future of Socialism” (Anthony Crosland)

Many council estates need demolishing and rebuilding with better integration and a mixture of ordinary and social housing. The estate i lived on was separate from the main town and became a byword for all that was wrong in the town, it wasn’t that bad a place to live until young people started to want to live up to the reputation they had been given.

Back to talking about community, as well as the rule of law it is social pressure that binds communities and protects them for the lawless and the death that now walks or rides a bmx down our streets.

I now live in a road where private housiing is mixed in a random way with council housing, this I beleive is the way forward.

The gangs and the killing are not going to be fixed by one change alone, but a series of social actions that tackle issues from a number of angles, including tougher gun laws and an understanding in courts of the ruses used to get young people off and why young people are often used by drug crime gangs in the first place.

I still beleive that where you live, how you live and subsequently how you think play a big part in poverty whether that is of aspiration of money of livelihood, of environment and of attitudes to life and death

“The Homes Within Reach: A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Affordable Homes and Communities” (Avi Friedman)

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Jonathan has experience in both the nonprofit and business sectors, working in a consultative capacity and as a project manager with PCTs, charities, the arts, trade unions, businesses and individuals in the areas of Information, motivation, direction and communications development. He has helped organisations as diverse as carers charities and magazine publishers to develop strategy, policy and process to make a more efficient infrastructure. One where staff share in the gains of the organisation and the end user, whether client, patient or customer, receives the highest quality service possible. As well as being an expert in applied information technology and communication he is a qualified and experienced counsellor and motivator.