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DISGRACEFUL FARCE; Outrage as Elderly Couple FORCED to Sell Home So Council Can House MIGRANTS

Elderly couple told they had to sell home to house asylum seekers.. North Northamptonshire Council apologised for error but blamed pressure to find accommodation on Home Office


Councils are compulsorily purchasing empty properties to meet a surge in the number of asylum seekers being granted leave to remain in the UK...

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Migrants, in Trafalgar Square London.





The Northamptonshire couple said they were shocked to receive a letter from the council telling them their home was being sold for migrants to live in.


Housing minister Grant Shapps wants councils to help older people move so their homes can be rented out to young families


Pensioner groups yesterday lined up to attack ‘outrageous’ proposals to encourage elderly homeowners to downsize into smaller properties.

Under the proposals, local authorities would take responsibility for maintaining and renting the vacated properties at affordable prices, handing any profit back to the elderly owner.

Over-50s group Saga last night described the idea as ‘outrageous social engineering’ – saying older people will be horrified that they should be pressured into moving out of family homes they have spent all their lives paying for.

The National Pensioners’ Convention asked why the elderly were being targeted to help solve the shortage of housing, when it was the Government’s responsibility to ensure more homes were built.

Mr Shapps said there was a nationwide shortage of housing, and pointed out that about 25million bedrooms in England are empty, largely because elderly couples do not move out of family homes into smaller properties.

He claimed the idea would also help older people, many of whom want to downsize but find it hard to do so.

He highlighted a scheme run by Redbridge council in East London to encourage pensioners to move – and suggested it could be expanded nationally. He said: ‘For too long the housing needs of the elderly have been neglected.

‘Older people who should be enjoying their homes have watched helplessly as their properties have become prisons, and many have been forced to sell their homes and move into residential care.

‘Urgent change is needed to ensure the nation’s housing needs are met.

Moving to more suitable accommodation can make a life-changing difference for some older people.’

But the warm words were dismissed last night by Saga’s Ros Altmann, who said any suggestion older generations were ‘hoarding housing’ came across as ‘extremely offensive’.

‘It is an insult to older people to suggest councils should take over their houses while they get shoved into housing,’ she said. ‘It’s outrageous social engineering.

‘A family home is about more than bricks and mortar: our surveys show people don’t want to downsize. Older people will be horrified that the home they have put so much love and care into could be deemed by an official to be not suitable for them, but let out to younger families they don’t even know.’


She added: ‘Pensioners should not feel pressured into making way for younger families. Older people are right to feel aggrieved at being made to feel guilty when throughout their lives they have cut back on spending to build up their own home.’


Neil Duncan-Jordan, of the National Pensioners’ Convention, said: ‘The shortage of affordable housing for younger families is not the fault of Britain’s pensioner population.’

He said some frail elderly people did want to downsize, but said there was a shortage of sheltered accommodation for them to move to. He added: ‘If you’re in a three-bedroom house and you actually want to downsize, the market isn’t exactly brimming with retirement accommodation.’

Finance experts also questioned whether the scheme was workable. Andrea Rozario, of the trade body SHIP, which represents equity release providers, said: ‘There is likely to be a huge cost attached to this, not to mention the high level of administrative work.

‘Older people may well want to consider downsizing, but on their own terms and with the ability to take the money immediately.’

Michelle Mitchell, of Age UK, said: ‘No one of any age should feel they have to move out of their own home unless it is what they want to do. Nor should older people be blamed for the scarcity of affordable housing or the economic conditions that make it difficult for younger people to get a mortgage.’







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