Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
I'm having trouble understanding this, what legal footing are you lot standing on when you're demanding those empty buildings be filled with these people who are out of a home because of a tragic fire?

If you're saying "The government needs to just take it" then I'm sorry THAT is tyrannical. Now while you may see it as "unfeeling" or "cold hearted" that ain't a part of the contract that went in to acquiring that property, there's no clause that says "If a fire happens and a lot of people are without homes, you HAVE to care about it and allow them to move into your property which you own." That clause doesn't exist nor should it. And not temporary either? So pitchforks and torches then? Just have the people rise up and TAKE the property then? Well that'll bode well for future investment in your country I am certain.


Now I'm not saying the Government couldn't try to make it worth the property owners' while to house those folks, but I'm sure you already are of the mindset that those "Evil rich people" are too rich as it is.



Property rights mean something

You are way too sure of other people's mindsets.


Try reading any of the replies so far and then take a deep breath.
Tyrannical? You are having a giraffe. The Government is buying social housing that is set aside for people like those from Grenfell Tower. The buildings are not even finished and the developer is getting more than market value to finish even more quickly. It was always going to be social housing and so the only difference now is that the tenants are those made homeless by a penny pinching government that cost 79 lives are now no longer going to be homeless.

And you have the piss taking attitude to suggest that property rights of those next door in the luxury apartments should stop people you think "made the wrong choices" from moving in?


Nowhere has anybody here said (but obviously the right wing twaddle you read has suggested) the Government needs to just take it.


Why are you lot so extreme?