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'Street Seen': Belfasts own Homeless Paper
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Saturday October 16, 2004 17:47 by Jon Glackin - Street Seen streetseen04 at hotmail dot com 0774 327 5533
making the invisible visible The official launch of the Belfast newspaper ‘Street Seen’ is to take place at the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, Donegal Street at 3.30pm this Tuesday 19th October. The paper is to be a local street paper for homeless people in Belfast and apart from advice and support for homeless people; it will cover politics, culture and many issues relevant to society. The first edition is now on the streets The official launch of the Belfast newspaper ‘Street Seen’ is to take place at the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, Donegal Street at 3.30pm this Tuesday 19th October. The paper is to be a local street paper for homeless people in Belfast and apart from advice and support for homeless people; it will cover politics, culture and many issues relevant to society. The first edition is now on the streets |
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Greedy private landlords prefer to rent their 2 up 2 down fire trap terrace properties in the Holylands to rowdy anti social middle class students, and cram 8 gormless students into their HMOs, to make quick exorbitant profits charging £160 per student per room, this not only causes a fire and health hazard but also is making permanent holyland residents lives a living hell.
This coupled with the Housing Executive imposed private rent shortfalls/capping and legislation which requires those on DHSS to apply for Discretionary hardship payments every 3/6 months to top up private rent shortfalls, instead of the previously applying just once a year, has made many families/working class people homeless, despite the fact that the Housing executive has not got the affordable public housing stock to rehome families and children that their nonsensical policies make homeless. In fact it costs more to house families in 'temporary' homeless hostels/B&B than it does to top up private rent short falls.
Many families and children find themselves living in such 'temporary' homeless accomodation for 8 months to 2 years, because the HE has not got affordable public housing stock available to rehome them in the first place. Instead of investing in reburbishing their existing stock of Housing executive properties and increasing the affordable housing stock in working class areas, the Housing executive prefers to let their properties run down, and sell these off to private developers for profits, in the hope of ultimately destroying working class communities and forcing these communities to relocate to places away from the center of belfast to allow private developers to move in to make profits building empty white elephants office blocks/luxury apartments that nobody can affford, which the private property developers then sell back to the HE at a profit, to house old people and the homeless.
The days of the HE being allowed to build and house families in the likes of Divis/unity flats have gone but you can bet, eventually desperate homeless families and young people will find themselves crammed into those luxury white elephant apartment blocks along lagan side/ central station, and for families with young children, high rise apartments are anything but luxurious.