Homeless: Eviction - BBC London News 

Why doesn’t the father get a part time job while waiting for his kids ,

Gee what could possibly go wrong when you're already on a limited income, have no job, live in one of the most expensive cities on the planet AND have four children??

Whats difficult to understand? You pay your rent. As they keep on breeding, they are getting more money. What on earth do they do with it? Landlords have mortgages to pay. If you can't afford rent, move somewhere cheaper. Then they moan when they get more free accommodation? Get a job and better yourself out of it. Stop breeding!!

they dont have money for rent yet they think they have the money to have lots of children. why?

I'm sorry if I'm not working or partner not working. I wouldn't be having some much children. They don't have income coming in only benefits. Why put yourself through this. My legs will be crossed until I find a stable job to look after my child. That's me just saying

If you can't feed them, don't breed them.

The average cost to raise a child between to the age 21 is £229,251, why not have four of them. The average rent for a flat is at least £300 a week (at the cheapest), inflation has risen, costs of food has gone up, let's have more children.

Am I missing something? If I decided not to pay my mortgage...I would have my house taken away, so why is the immigrant couple confused about why they were evicted? Do they think the owner of the property they were renting, should have started paying the mortgage on hus property out of pocket? It’s a business...an investment. That family is smart enough to understand wanting to keep their kids in a better school (illegally) so they know exactly why they were evicted.

Why do people have so many children, that's often the real issue, in my opinion.

I was desperately poor with 2 young children. I took a cleaning job at nights, went despatch riding on a bicycle and kept hammering on doors at factories until someone gave me steady work. I didn't bleat about being made homeless. If you can't feed your children , stop breeding.

Why does she have children with mental health issues? Why do that to your kids? To yourself?

The problem all started when council started given the tenants the money to pay the rent. They would get themselves into arrears thinking the council would never kick them out. You know you have kids to take care off stop spending the rent money, common sense.

No disrespect to families, why would continue to have a tribe of children making their life hard...knowing you can't afford to take care of there basic needs, because the more children you have...that means you can't hold down a job...l feel for the children, but not the parents it makes no sense and you complain about your family...no family is going to put up with your nonsense and if you're on drugs and alcohol...don't expect an invite for anyone, if you create this problem, then you've to solve it yourself...making excuses and blaming others, is not there drama!!!

Rent should be paid directly to landlord, if you have rent in your hand a kids need shoes etc what do you do, vicious circle

I’m an Iraqi and have been living in a western country for the past 18 years, I love it here BUT I know very clearly that I need to work my ass off to stay at my house, tried every possible job until I settled, it’s not always easy but you need to try the ugly jobs that you don’t like until you find the right one! If I as a foreigner can manage to learn this new country’s culture and language and get a job I’m pretty sure you can do better ( determination is all it takes and never giving up) I know it’s hard but not trying will lead to a harder life! I’ve worked from pizza deliveries to carwashes to my current job as a graphic designer since 2001 and thank god I finally own my own house now! I hope you will too 🤲 Just Keep trying....

She has mental problems, but that does not stop her from popping out kids! Why do they have kids they cannot afford??!! The other one has 4 kids! She needs to get money from her kids' father!! Why in the world did she have 4 kids??!! No personal responsibility here!!!

In America the housing authority pays the landlord we dont get the rent money. They should do that there. If so then the landlord gets paid and noone evicted

why should land lords go bankrupt to help people who cant pay their rent

Please save to afford children before you have them

Why doesn't Michel get a job like the rest of us. I married many years ago and never thought of having children until we could afford them, yes we sat down with a calculator and did the maths! Worked hard and saved!! We never expected others to pay for our children, why should we pay for those who think that having kids is a golden ticket. Sorry but my generation see singles mothers and think "Why doesn't the father give money to bring up their kids" This generation is learning a hard lesson, I am sorry, but it might stop the next making the same terrible mistake. You have to plan to have children, it makes you appreciate them and means you are a better parent. Life is hard.

Too many people create several children and then try to figure out how to feed and house them afterward. Other people cannot be expected to create funding to house irresponsible people and the children they create. They have it backward. They seem to have an entitlement expectation that the housing authorities owe them a place to live. You secure yourself with a dependable partner, and then have children after you have got your poop in a group. I wish them the best, all of these people, but their predicament is self made.

There is this notion that you are entitled to everything free in the UK and it is not true. Both my parents worked all there life after coming over to the UK and paid there way. I just dont understand.

Those poor babies. They look so depressed.

Nobody seems to accept a population of nearly 70 million and rising is to many people for a small country like the UK, all resources are stretched to the limit,

Uk seems to have a lot of poverty i used to think uk was a very rich country how did the quality of life go down

Me and my wife both work full time and we have considered the cost of another child before having one and decided against. Why do these people with no jobs have so many kids ? It is not the states responsibility to pay for you or your kids. If you can’t afford to pay rent then what makes you think you can keep having kids? Also, it seems often that a lot of these people have come to the U.K. for a better life but want the state to provide it for them. Free house, free health care, free child benefits. How about get a job ?

Why do people feel sorry for these deadbeats who wont pay their rent . Don't pay your mortgage, you go out. Don't pay your rent you go out. Simple system. They keep having kids for more benefits. Same as in the USA. They WANT to be taken care of and have a free ride. This seems to be coming to an end as more people just toss them out on the streets if they don't pay up. Good riddance! Total blame falls in the parents lap.

Why add kids into the situation?..

my mother fought in the second world war and not for them!

Why is it always the ones with 4 kids complaining about the house they can't afford... They put themselves in this problems.. Stop having children you can't afford

Why are these people having children if they can't afford them? NO SYMPATHY!!!

The government should not be paying housing benefits direct to tenants, they should be going direct to the landlords. How dare tenants keep free money given to them to house them and they complain when they’re evicted. This could only happen in Britain and why this country is a joke and overrun with people who have no desire to work.

Can’t pay then it will be lost

Sorry but I'm not sorry at all I came across with people with the same excuse

The father of those children is one helluva man....taking them on a 2 hour journey each way to go to and from school. God bless you sir; hope things have gotten better for you, the wife and the children since this video.

Theres a growing culture of entitlement without putting in the work required. People feel the government owes them a quality of life they wont afford themselves. Rent payments should be given to landlords and not to the parents. They spew rhetoric like I want to give my kids the same as other kids. Well get off your ass and go work for it or dont have them. Dont expect to be owed anything in this life

Two able body adults that could be working. even second jobs to provide for their children. If that man can stand outside the school and wait all day he can get a job as a security guard. Place the blame on the parents making poor life choices then expect others to deal with the consequences to repair their lives.

I don't think people should have children if they can't afford it, but at the same time, everyone should have a home except criminals in prison and illegal immigrants.

why did they make 4 kids!!!

"touched a fire extinguisher" Lol! Sounds more like, he ripped fire extinguisher from off wall, smashed it against the neighbours door, thereby rendering the whole block a fire hazard

I have mental health issues, diagnosed and sectioned. I could NEVER have taken the lead in a televised interview

The UK is an open labour camp, it always has been. We may not have the workhouse any more but we do have the streets

so the council evicts them and they claim benefit from the council to rent the new place and when that goes to pot, the council has to give them new emergency accommodation? what a pointless cycle! why doesn’t the council just not evict, come up with a repayment plan and start from there instead of all this upset and drama?!?

Do any of these people work?

Get an education, and a wedding ring, before u pop out babies all over the place.

Simple no rent no home on the street you go

Why on earth do they have so many children if they can't afford to look after them?? Wrap it up or don't have sex! I feel sorry for the children for having such incompetent parents.

I'm sorry I'm pretty sure the mum in the first family could be working at least part time I know lots of people who still go to work with personal mental problems. Also the dad killing time to keep his children in school ? Why isnt he using that time to find work ? X

oh my god! it's even disgusting how any council can offer someone a home without a kitchen and a toliet, im even sure she's also living without central heating, they just put her in a shell, more like a shoe box. She has every right to sue the council. The house has no feeding, nursing or any hygiene to keep a human alive and clean

"When FINGS were start building up" This woman is a social worker and cannot even speak properly!!!

Everybody can find some type of work they will be able to do. These people only want a free ride.

Islington is becoming harder and harder to live in.

There r too many people in the world, who need help now.

0:35 little girl points middle finger 😂

Yes know how to get here but when it comes to paying your way they don't understand the system you could not make it up hey dude everyone has to pay rent simple

I think the black man is Nigerian. He was probably doing better in Nigeria but thought going to Uk would lead to greener pastures.

That kid goes to my school and I always used to get in trouble cause of him cause he was disabled

More children, more benefits.

Why do these people need to live in London. Do they like visiting all the museums there, or maybe they are opera-lovers and regularly go to Covent Garden or the the Colosseum, Do they look froward each year to the Proms at the Albert Hall or regularly attend recitals at Wigmore Hall and Symphony concerts at the Festival Hall or at the Barbican ?

Sorry no pity if they were in their own country they would have to pay rent or out on the street but this family know exactly what they are doing that want a free ride all the way well sorry mate that not going to happen or you can always go back home to your family there is to much of this rubbish going on its got to stop .

Immigrants and ethnic minorities ARE prioritised for housing whether social housing or discretionary payments for private, it is a scandal. Look how they had a social rent in a heritage building in islington! Myself and endless others I have spoken to have been through the system and get no where. What do we have in common? We are white British!

This person is just one of millions of homeless families and the world is really going astray, we humans who do not even have mercy on our fellow human beings, why should God have mercy on us? . Instead of crying and pretending to be a loved one, let 's educate ourselves with our income and raise our level of thinking to a global level to shout out to the embarrassed global community. Let's show our protest with a few tweets every day, with a few simple messages, so that little by little, these protests will be added and the international community will think about a fundamental change in its path. We can help big campaigns to fight homelessness with big tweets. We can take care of the homeless, help them find jobs, help educate them, with a few tweets. We, who live comfortably in our homes, live comfortably in warm weather, owe at least this to them.

Their gonna lose all their belongings.. they will only mostly likely get a hostel and they may inform social services.. ridiculous really hope this family get a home and positive turn around

I cannot understand how people manage to get into huge arrears with Social Housing rent. Some arrears and arrange a payment plan sure,💩 happens, but to continually do it is crazy, you will never get cheaper housing. If you get unemployed then apply for H.B, if you are on a low wage there are to p ups, rent should be the first priority followed by food and bills, the only thing I can think of is that they are spending the debt money elsewhere.

W😪W. this has shown Me not to complain but thank God in heaven, be grateful for what you do have. Wow🤔😪

Why did that family fall into arrears why didn't they try and talk to the council about getting housing benefit? Also how did that mum with 4 kids in a room fall into arrears? A council house is dirt cheap rent

Im sorry but don't have children (multiple at that) if you find that you will not be able to handle/ provide for them now or in the future. Children aren't a toy or a joke. Things get real..

I spotted tins of Heinz Spaghetti, the mist expensive brand you can buy. Learn to budget. Don't expect somebody else to pay your bills.

there is no such thing as adhd, they are only hyperactive children due to excessive sugar consumption or bad upbringing, i.e. allowing everything

These people have been incredibly irresponsible by spending their housing benefit on something other than their rent. They were incredibly lucky to have social housing many thousands in temporary accommodation would give anything to be offered it but you have to show that you you are sensible and live within your means. So on this occasion I have no sympathy for the man as he got himself into this situation but feel very sorry for his wife and kids whom he should have protected. Before I get cries of protest NO I am not some rich Tory. I live frugally in social housing being severely disabled but I always pay rent then food then bills. Keeping a roof over you and your families heads is the most important thing.

Why keep having children????? using them as a points system

Hold on a minute. I seen that same bedroom with wallpaper and bed with a white teenager a d mom staying there needing help. Is this set up

BBC NEW I like this is interview. But I don't know that there was homeless in difficult situation your country the first word

So sad that Michael doesn't go home after dropping kids off a school to save a fare. :(

WTF! And the boat people also need homes! This Country is F**D. I am a pensioner, single parent raising a 14-year-old. Do I complain, no; I have a mortgage too after losing it all in a divorce. Will I get a hand out - No! I survive, and I do not moan about the dampness, I have to fix myself!

I wonder if you get bailiffs/officers attacked or stabbed whilst evicting the tenants?

On the bright side they have a place

instead of having all those kids maybe sort you life and finances out first.just a thought!

People think it’s a human right to have kids that’s what I hate

So many judgemental comments on here, none of us are immune to our circumstances changing, so maybe think about that, instead of portraying yourself as the perfect human!

We carnt be responsible when People have loads of kids without being able to afford them

People are really harsh in the comment section.. God help us all.

Y did u have 4 kids?

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To me, it seems like only common sense that if you have a housing shortage, WHY would you let more people come from other countries?! Take care of the ones you already have. British and allot of Europe has become like America, it can’t house and feed the entire 3rd world. And any other part of the world. Countries need to step up and work to help their own population. Heaven knows allot of foreign aide is sent out world wide. Stop the corruption and things will get better.

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I know that boy his name is Ezra he’s my friend he is bullied in school please don’t call him a bum or a skank it’s discusting

In Singapore If you are homeless you must fights to be free and get your own place to stay if not the goverments make you homeless forever so that their friend can have bussines in homeless shelter !

Wonder what would after brexit be...

Shame on this country!

Grow your brain, use common sense, and birth control pillsl

very difficult situation for the families. all these people should get support from social services or a support worker. people appear ill equipped to deal with life these days but look at my parents generational model - second world war, depression, evacuation and severe austerity with no welfare state. they were resourceful and self reliant, no credit. no money - you went without. psychologists should study these generational problems and advise us on how to resolve these issues and recognise a problem going from amber light to red light prior to the crisis and crash. some harsh judgements from other subscribers bur its a case of compassion overload too many times i think for peoole perpertuatng the same problems over and over again. kudos to the dad travelling from purfleet to the school with kds every day. super dad! charities have lsot so much funding and rely so uch on the public to volunteer or donate. when ive volunteered i was abused and exploited by charities who gave me case loads for a full week despite the fact that i could only volunteer 4 or 5 hours a week due to health problems. no proper traiing no supervision and no support. i got burnt out.

Well. Pay your bills

They had children really late in life. God bless them.

Of course this family is being evicted, they need the home for some 15 strong Romanian family no doubt.

Common factors too many kids

My daughter is worse off now she is working ?

And they are in this country because??

renting the land lords are disgusting and unfair! If you complain they give your notice! So wrong

And,...... where is the husband? Who works?