Shelter’s Income and expenditure figures highlighted

Reply to the comment left by Mark Shine at 08/02/2019 - 13:03
I agree with that as well. Sorry for any misunderstandings, it seems I did not express myself clearly to start with if several people got the wrong end of the stick.

Reply to the comment left by Old Mrs Landlord at 08/02/2019 - 14:31
I didn’t get wrong end of stick, but last night after a few🍷 was almost certainly guilty of trying to change the subject back (sorry 🥴) to questioning the seemingly irrational & simplistic viewpoint of the govt & left wing media & ‘interest groups’ like hpc who btw also appear everywhere in online media (including reporting Larry’s twitter feed to ICO btw) relentlessly promoting their message that:

unincorporated LLs = v v bad,
incorporated LLs = good, regardless of leverage.

Reply to the comment left by Mark Shine at 08/02/2019 - 21:31
Perhaps now the thread will get back on track and I shall bow out. I do not participate in Twitter, Facebook or similar forms of communication. I am a simple soul and do not go in for conspiracy theories, much less profess to understand the machinations of the political classes. I do, however like to keep an eye on HPC as it's sometimes good for a laugh albeit, as you say, irrational and simplistic (to which I would add blinkered and vicious).

Vincent Company is setting up a homeless charity.

He probably doesn’t know there is already one receiving £20 million of government money.

The reason that he doesn’t know is because rather than help the homeless Shelter prefer to pay Champagne Socialist large salaries to slag off the PRS.

Reply to the comment left by Old Mrs Landlord at 09/02/2019 - 00:01Believe it or not... I don’t usually subscribe to conspiracy theories either OML, but like yourself I also do sometimes keep an eye on various provocateurs like the very vindictive and manipulative guys @ hpc (and their online activities elsewhere, which are not *that* hard to trace with a fair bit of googling). Partly for entertainment value if I’m being honest. Amongst all the hate, I accept there might be a few bright sparks there.
That said, it would be ok if some of the more militant and exceptionally egotistical individuals within that particular ‘interest group’ kept themselves to themselves and just spouted delusional nonsense on their own forum. But they don’t just do that.

Why doesn't Shelter put the same level of venom on substandard social housing, which don't have to reach anything like the same safety standards as PRS? If Shelter is concerned about H&S of tenants, then there are plenty of examples like this recent one locally (Labour visit to a council tower block in a Conservative LA): https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/shami-chakrabarti-visits-hatfield-1-5894557
How long would a private LL be excused for not fixing the only lift in a 13-storey building? It's been out of action since before Christmas, with its replacement scheduled for June 2019.

Anyone else having the problem that they click on latest comment and end up at a previous page? I've had this in a lot but not all articles in the last week or so and have no idea why

Reply to the comment left by Darlington Landlord at 25/02/2019 - 17:42
Yeah, same problem here.

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Thank you for posting the latest trading figures for Shelter.
It appears to be an extremely large corporate identity with lots of strategies in place.
It is surprising that not a single penny is spent on some kind of hands on support for the homeless other than a phone line.
I have seen one of their large offices in the city, its refurbished to high standard, dominates its position on that road and has “credential”.
Many charities only contribute very little to their given cause. 1p in the pound maybe.
Check with the charities commission for confirmation.
Surprisingly £60+million can’t provide a single bed or a hot meal for someone in desperate need.
Travelling through London or any of our great cities for that matter you will see many people young and old sleeping in shop doorways or worst, hungry cold and depressed. They have little or no hope of breaking that viscous downward spiral.
Just 2% of their takings could provide overnight accommodation for many of these destitute souls.
Somewhere to wash shower and restore some dignity into their lives. Stop for just one moment and imagine yourself in that same position, no money or income no bed not even a toothbrush a tampon or razor blade to your name.
Now imagine your in charge of a charity. Do you spend your time beating up LLs Lobbying self serving politicians or do you actively look to help and uplift the lives of the fallen victims of system?
I stopped at a petrol station it was a very frosty day, I defrosted my car, it was cold. There was an old man huddled under a blanket on the ground next to the main building of the petrol station.
I stepped out of my warm car to enter the building and pay my bill I thought to myself jeez it’s cold.
This old man had been out there all night I suppose.
When I came back out I gave him £10 quid. He said to me “thanks so much mate, now I can get a bed for the night”.
I guess he knew of a Hostel or something somewhere where it was possible for a tenner per night to get a shower eat something and sleep in a bed.
I did think goodness I would love to help more if I could but the realities are that as business people supplying accommodation it simply cannot work and function.
But ! If I had £60 million coming in I would certainly try to help a few of them.