Alarm at overcrowded Somali community

[rudy-Diiriye]

The Somali community in London is living in conditions so disproportionately terrible that the situation should be investigated by the race equality watchdog, researchers have warned.

 

 

The researchers, from consultancy Migrationwork, said the levels of housing deprivation they found among Somalis in north and east London was so extreme it should be viewed as an emergency.

 

They were so concerned they contacted the Equalities and Human Rights Commission while they were writing up the research, which was commissioned by Karin Housing Association, a specialist Somali social landlord. One of the report’s final recommendations is that the Equality and Human Rights Commission should launch a formal investigation into Somali housing conditions.

 

Researchers spoke to 158 Somalis as part of their work. Less than one third had a home big enough for them and their families. The report compares this ‘astonishingly high number’ to overcrowding statistics in Tower Hamlets ‘the most overcrowded borough in England, reporting 13 per cent of families as overcrowded’.

 

It states: ‘Many faced quite devastating levels of overcrowding. One family of eight, including a disabled woman, share a two-bedroom house, with five beds in one room.’

 

More than one third reported their homes as needing major repairs. No one surveyed owned their own home.

 

Sue Lukes, one of the report authors, said: ‘With choice-based lettings [allocation systems] there is an issue that if you are not on the ball and literate it is difficult for you to bid in a smart way.’

 

David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, said the finding that so many Somalis were living in overcrowded conditions indicated a ‘monumental public policy failure’.

 

He added: ‘We have created a housing allocation system insufficiently nuanced to understand the specific problems of individual people and individual communities in society.’

 

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/story.aspx?storycode=6508288#commentsubmitted

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

Rudy - The overcrowding in the article is not necessarily overcrowding once given its originally definition from a Somali perspective. Many Somalis across London and the UK are bogus and living in multiple houses, but are registered to the family house. A family might have 7 people living in one house but the facts of the matter are that at least half these people have applied to a housing association or their local YMCA for a new accommodation. After a while, due partly to their laziness and pleas to be accommodated, these people will get accommodation. So a family of 7 in one house will eventually become a family spread across the town with at least 5 houses/ accommodation. Some of these new houses are rented to other Somali families in the area for a discounted fee.

 

These people are good at manipulating the system. Using any excuse such as: teenage pregnancy, I am gay and my parents have kicked me out, I have a disease and my parents will kill me, my father abuses me, domestic violence, depression, I am a Christian. Some have criminal convictions and are genuine people seeking accommodation. But the facts on the ground are that Somalis are not overcrowded but dispersed all over the town. These articles are often written by non-Somalis who have no knowledge of the lived experiences of Somalis.

[SayidSomal]

WANTED - DEAD OR ALIVE - FOR CRIMES AGAINST SOMALINESS

[Complicated]

Waryee, stop lampooning Soomaaliyoo dhan in this magac isku yeel bull of yours. Adiga maxaa ku istaajiyay meel kastoo wax xun ka dhaco.

 

Originally posted by MAXIMUS POWERS:

These people are good at manipulating the system. Using any excuse such as: teenage pregnancy,

I am gay and my parents have kicked me out, I have a disease and my parents will kill me, my father abuses me, domestic violence, depression, I am a Christian.

Honestly baryahan waad kasoo dartay so much so that I now fear for your sanity - you're spending way too much time on such a frivolous things halkaad wax barashadaada ku dadaali lahayd. It's one thing to have a passionate opinion. It's another to be a frothing, arrogant, and interminable fool.

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

^^

 

Calling me arrogant and foolish will not change the status quo. These excuses are documented and authorities are becoming aware of these manipulation.

[Peacenow]

These are all known things. The somalis in London have been systematically raping Britain since they came in 1990.

Those before them, have now had to pay the price of these animals and the mess they bring everywhere.

[Maxaatiri]

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[chubacka]

blah, blah, blah @ Marcus, go find something useful to do. Gross Overcrowding is the norm for many somali families in London, and it takes years to access social housing for families with young children and illiterate parents. At least the problem has been acknowledged but the proof will be in the pudding.

[grasshopper]

Originally posted by Sayid*Somal:

anyone know the story behind this picture.. he looks like he's been crying.

[Mr. Somalia]

^ Or he's been smoking that good purple kush!

[grasshopper]

lol maybe! but then he would've looked less :mad: and more