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Stella W they would just turn it into. Disgusting crack dens

@@Blank-km4qr You mean SOME of them would

bigbad123321 no pretty much all of them cause the ones that won’t do tht have already been housed

Not Who You Think I Am do you realize how many families with literal children live in hotels and b&bs

There would be no jobs for them

Harry Barker so....create a ghetto? You can't just house people. The empty houses are just a symptom. The area is economically deprived. You have create jobs in the area

Samatar Ahmed homeless people are surviving without jobs, if the rent is affordable on a low/no income basis the homeless people may get themselves together enough to go job hunting and make it work. they just need the opportunity, drive and support

topandtale the whole issue is that there is a lack of jobs in that area. The only thing that moving in a load of homeless will create is a ghetto probably full of drug addicts, crime and just will generally bring down the value of the area even more which would make the families leave until it's just a town full of uncontrollable homeless

Babbity Boo war veterans don't get preferential treatment with housing from councils. I didn't.

*****​ no my friend. 13 years in the British Army and I spent 18 months living under a bridge a bathing in the river that ran under the bridge. Maybe some councils value their military veterans but mine definitely doesn't. I sometimes wonder if it is held against Me!

Well theyre a quid now. Problem solved

Trust me you don't want to live there

@Exotic Prime there's no mortgage if the house is a pound

Exotic Prime they might be homeless but they don’t need to mortgage a house that costs a quid 😂

Well if they wanted the houses they can but it doesn’t look like any one is going there

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The FortLife That bad huh

I'm the best at monopoly

@@Jippie2408 I'm from Easington so I know all about it mate

Scarry hous

cool ladd £1 for the lot it is

Cool Lad it’s 75k per house, actual price

@@Akmak apparently

@@Akmak so why did the reporter say £1 for the lot? i no they can lie but there's a BIG ol difference between 75k n £1 !? and im not saying i dont believe you i just dont get why it was said and put in caption your more then likely right no i no you are its just confusing and a big mistake todo?

@@Akmak ur vids are mad

Edgar Field You're disgusting.

Al Funcoot cool

Edgar Field Why would it ruin the neighbourhood, and chance of selling to anyone else? Once the homeless have homes; they are no longer homeless, which won't ruin the neighbourhood, it will infact help it because there will be people there.

but how would the homeless make money? it isn't near cities or busy towns and it's not as if there is anyone there to work for

Grace Fleming who the fuck want't to live there. Syrian refugee's wouldn't want to live in Durham The biggest cesspit in the Northeast pauper land peasants. have you taken ecstasy or L S D? To come up with your STUPID comment,live there? fuck off get real.

I lived in richardson street yes i no about 1 pound houses committy split

@@stevensmith-xz7pj I worked on a pound house on that road, emptied it an filled about 3 skips. Last time I was there we were doing the last bits to help a family move in which was nice. Tbf there's loads of work being done on the pound houses round there

Al Viktorovich Liverpool gang !

Ikr its not that bad i might buy one

Saying it's not that bad 🤣 yeah I live in the town over I have friends in these streets and it's wayy worse now and full of crime houses burned out old people home invaded muggings police helicopter out all the time and the houses are falling apart full of damp fucked electrics copper pipes stripped out probably asbestos to 😒

hahaha class comment

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A Human Seme

@@em-kc7iq I just ruined it so go ahead and like it. In tears here

Peterlee is a real cack hole with zero character. Horden used to be great, such a shame to see it like this.

they were offered to the council in bulk for £1

Hope Yukizmizu that's how they scam you sell a house for a dollar then you end up owing all the priority taxes

nah, they will sell them all for £1 aslong as you have the money in the bank to fix them all up, I know a polish man he came to uk when he was 12 without his mum/dad and now hes a worth over 50mil he does similar ....

how is he worth over 50mil? wtf

TheDantheman12121 Nor are you. Learn how to type a proper sentence before slamming someone for their idiocy.

Will Jenks they don’t have the budget to build a factory. They cost millions.

And where are these homeless going to come from?

Will Jenks not sure you quite understand property development , that’s not how it necessarily works

If only it was that easy. Housing market failure is a big problem in some areas. The Blair Government set up a Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder project but it just seemed to be about seminars, words and conference buffet's!

If only it was that easy

EH? HARTLEPOOL.I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE SAYING THAT.I WENT THERE IN 1954 WITH MY GREAT GRANDAD AND I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.THE ONLY REASON THAT I DIDN'T MOVE THERE IS BECAUSE I LIVED SOMEWHERE ELSE.I'D MOVE THERE NOW IF I COULD BUT THE HOUSE PRICES ARE TOO EXPENSIVE.I SPOKE TO ONE BLOKE,HE WANTED FIFTY POUNDS!!!

Claire Morrisroe Don't like kit Kat Clair have you anything else you can offer?😜

50p Wilko's floor wipes tho

60 and a Mars bar.

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@@robertcase60 i thought in make that same proposal 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Different regions of the world have fluctuating economic fortunes- this type of thing has been going on for thousands of years.

@@yorkshiremgtow1773 exacally, a failed system, aka market capitalism

@@Bessskar So, if another country adopts Capitalism and the living-standards increase significantly (as in the case of Estonia), does it mean it's a failed system?

@@yorkshiremgtow1773 obviously in your case no, but in the case of doormant houses in stoke, yes... boom or bust cycle is what market capitalism is. it requires 'infinite growth' in an finite planet... and as for communism, that is prescribed poverty and work enslavement of the masses

@@Bessskar But Capitalism doesn't require infinite growth; this is a common misconception. If you have a business, and are happy with the turnover you make, why do you 'need' to expand?

hold my dck

i have 40 grand i will be rich in Horden lol

@@lunafringe10 no thanks 😂

Harry Wood ijr

Harry Wood *ikr your right on that one

Perfect lol

Lol

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leah marie in UK there are not MILLIONS who are homeless

Yes but in Europe we have 11 million empty properties.

because of the HIGH COST.

Homelessness is a choice.

@@alicec1533 no a human has a choice what he or she chooses to do everyday in their life.

The wont accept

The neighborhood crackhouse

They shipped 200 odd immigrants to a place nearby called coundon. They were bussed in midday on a Monday on Tuesday or ming the buses returned to collect them

Once they house them they will tax them.......as everything in these societies Eu or 'the West". You live to pay tax not live to be free.

They’ll take everything valuable and leave

ESTATE AGENTS HAVE A FREE ROLE TO EXPLOIT THE POOR

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i think it would be a good idea to try and entice a big factory or nuclear power plant etc usually you would not want something like that in or near your town but it can only be this dead because of joblessness , if that landlord was renting all those properties to people who were entitled to housing benefit then the area has not got enough well paying good hours jobs and a huge factory or power plant could provide those so people could afford to buy these houses real cheap and do em up

Thais is such a great idea so many people out off work get unemployed to do the work and give houses to people who suffer homeless

It’s not that easy to just “remove a wall” you clown

+DIONNE FRANCIS-BROWN it is wrong but the tenants & housing association has run them into the ground if the council bought them they would be responsible for repairs & up-keep ,Most councils are selling of there stock to associations & private landlords.

DIONNE FRANCIS-BROWN if those ugly looking house's were only half a penny, Those Nortern peasants still could not afford it. Me? I live in the south, hot summers, less rain, very clean [ no litter ] and lots and lots of work. "LOADS OF MONEY".😎

DIONNE FRANCIS-BROWN is it labour or tory run council.

@@robertcase60 Good for you, snob.

@@zeynepcalim2919 Ah. You wound me deeply 🙄😂

The cost of peace and quiet is low

Not until you hear someone's footsteps in the middle of night

Simon Not until you catch the Plague...

@@cocoduck7745 It's OK, my land my laws. Trespassers will be prosecuted haha

I'd buy the whole street amd knock all the houses into one. Long mansion for me

Councils etc don't think like that - they are greedy and want more money so that they can give themselves pay rises while cutting public services!

@@rhyfelwrDuw it was actually run by an association but because of the bedroom tax they didn’t think they could get enough renters in the units.

landlording comes with obligations, you can't lower the rent below cost of the obligations. Best to just sell for £1 as they said then the people living their don't have to pay rent (except council tax, water standing charge, and baseline heating).

Yes move people with no money to a place with no jobs that will definitely not get them trapped in an awful povity cycle with no way out The area needs job investment not just body’s in buildings

@@randomcallum job investment gives people something to do. That's not the source of occupancy. You need a pub first because people need water more than anything else, then a farm shop because the people there need food second of all, although the farm shop could give free drinking water by the glass, then someone can build a gastropub nearby with this "locally sourced food" concept so wealthy travellers will bring demand for the service sector at a different level of monetary value and start making people disproportionately wealthy given the work, that will attract workers and expand the services offered near the pub.

From what the gentleman says no one shows interest at the moment!! Things don’t get worse there is solutions .. many are on the street x army guys who are on the streets now!! Give them a chance to live again, a reason to be off the street .. many x army are living in temporary housing .. solutions are there it’s the council to work on it.. too expensive then rebuild or open it into a homeless units!!!

Tori W she said hay

That would honestly be too posh for us. 😅 we wouldn't be able to afford it.

lol she said hay

I'm guessing a lot of people who don't live where they grow naturally won't know that they are their own plant, not just balled-up dried wheat grass or hay or something.

Jo I far to many poor and you cannot give the whole of the pauper north east can you? Get real!

But they'll need money anyway to just keep them in good shape along the years.

There are no jobs there & the houses need a lot of work

jrgboy but the people will open jobs then it will grow... Places start from nothing to a lot you know. If someone opened some shops more would come and they would open companies.

There are no jobs. They won't be able to maintain them.

TrueWarr10r mate I used to live in County Durham in Newton Aycliffe and I thought that was a ghost town like but when I look at this I’m like no wonder why people moved to Peter Lee

@@tomstev2745 it was a joke mate

@@tomstev2745 haha I used to live in shildon

@@user-gk6mi7lv6q just realised the reference lol

Or the homeless

Location. Location. Location.

Students?? What are they going to be studying and where?? 😂😂

Probably there is a lot of monthly and yearly upkeep on top of any renovation costs you want to do, so you need quite a bit of cash to make that work. Even if you could "buy the lot" for a quid its a big investment because of all those costs.

@@chuckmallett2942 Online since covid. Employment and education have moved online.

You can't sell housing if there are no jobs in the area. That's why it's abandoned.

And are you going to start up a business there? This is a free market economy, you need businesses to supply jobs in order to supply income, so they can afford a house in the first place. You cant even open up a shop or a bar if there are no productive jobs around in the first place as no one has any money to spend.

Homes under the hammer.

you just need decent internet and entice those that work from home. could be a lovely quiet retreat. i'd be interested

Andrew F that’s a great idea. May be the abs on show though 🤷🏾‍♂️

I dont even know what bedroom tax is🤔

@@Tor128 If you are on benefits and are a single person, you get a percentage deducted from your benefit payments(20% or so I think per bedroom) if you rent a place with more than one bedroom. These houses won't be 1 bedroom places thus no one who is single on benefits can afford them. There's also the issue that one-bedroom properties are not exactly common, most are 2bedroom and above.

@@veeeks2938 Why not get flatmates then or live with family?

​@@veeeks2938 Then they can find a friend or a partner. These are not a council homes, the landlord is an agency. Also, all tenants could have the names on the lease, no need to sublet. When I couldn't afford rent for an entire apartment I lived with flatmates for 5 years. Most people that live in London and other big cities do that, so there's no reason for people in this town that are on benefits not to be able to do the same.

Sahad Qasim fucking garden tax

Sahad Qasim *Thank you for the idea. Theresa May has noted your request. Although we aren't promising anything...Mises May says one thing and does another*

Vladimir Eng MAKE JUNE THE END OF MAY. Oh shit...she won

Sahad Qasim toaster tax, chair tax. You know what, life tax. I need all your money

Lmfao

Concreteowl genius 😂

Millie me too 😂

@Harveer Bhinder imaooo

Millie yes

Millie It’s not strange it’s concerning

Are u okay in the head

Do you think the new Maggie lookalike Lizzie truss will sort it out .

They are stupid people thats why

Fought for us?? Lol

Amen

Who says he was risking his life, the majority of the military are glorified civilians. Heres the real question why didn't that sucker save some money up while he was wasn't paying rent and getting free food in the army? Makes me laugh people talking about this man in the army like he's owed a free house and the rest of the country has to pay for it? He should learn to manage his money and not come out with nothing, It's especially lol given he wouldn't even have to pay rent, food etc which takes a chunk out of any low wage persons wallet.

@@Ghost572 the food in the British army is paid from the salary (not free)

*hold my heroin

Rudy Carpenter lol

Did you not listen? The Council said they couldn't afford all the necessary repairs to all the houses which is why they refused to take them.

oi!

Not even close to as bad as Detroit

Alan Boyd I'm from England. Could I get a bargain in Detroit?

dat one piff detroit is just as bad

@TiringBard93 - Detroit far worse than Chitown.

Friend: you Brits need to go back to the Lord God like you did 100 years ago.

Declares the Independent Republic of Horden...

@@Jellygamer0 klm £49 pounds change.

You can buy 50 because they sell them a £1

@@anadantas1527 my watsap 0threone2ninezerothre9one90

@@Jellygamer0 begone filthy ancom

Diane Huntley What benefits? They've cut them to the point that thousands of disabled people are dying every year because their benefits were taken away (can you walk five feet? clearly you're fit for work, despite the fact that your disability is severe epilepsy and doesn't affect mobility like that), do you think able-bodied poor people are getting anything at all to help them?

which street is it

What area u feom

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TZ ;D i didn’t ask u so er....

@Harveer Bhinder 69 is 69

purple alien gang v69 no one asked you either

Esther Eso it izz what it izz

Well they're only a quid, I'm sure you could get some young people, tradesmen and the like, to do up their own houses in return for a low rent, lord knows I'd do it.

SteamboatWilley €

Funnily enough though, they always find money to buy the latest armaments and weapons.

A case of want a few new Tanks - sell off some NHS community hospital?

AvalonDreaming what!!! 😰 that’s crazy

Amy Israel Railslavegames put minimum wage up

@Geneva Mode So basically unregulated sweatshops should get taxed less?

No bed room no tax.

Tax religion

How is this even possible? It's a half hour drive to Newcastle, less to Sunderland, and the homes are empty? Seen them online going for £25k. Horden to Sunderland, is the same distance as me going from my home to Glasgow. Surely there must be jobs there??? I do that distance 5 times a week. Wish houses here were going for £25k, you would be lucky to get £125k and the new developments are going three times even that. Just how?????? I'd be tempted if it wasn't for having a kid and being petrified of your school system down there, nvm uni fee's later on. £25k houses, i can only dream.

You'd need good security.

Sonofa Seal wha'?

£10.01 to take it off this fella plus a high five.

god bless israel its 1 pound but it will cost thousands of pound to fix it inside .

god bless israel Israel knows all about robbing people's houses and land lol. you won't buy it...m

no ill live forever and bug cockroaches like your good self

and im not jewish

John Laws

looks like a good place to do parkour

+ThePARKOUR ZOMBIE exactly what I thought. shit.

I would like to buy whre should I contact? investing from outside uk

rosyrose19 contact me

Well your hero socialist Tony Blair could have reversed all that. Instead he just made himself a multi multi millionaire.

Arthur Scargill was living in a mansion in Sheffield while the miners were struggling - pardon the pun, but that guy was the pits!!

@@rhyfelwrDuw well, as the famous quote went........He started the strike with a large union and a small house and finished with a small union and a large house..

@@davytornado9772 that is so sad for the hard working miners who lost so much!

Totally agree. I was a single parent with two young children, it's amazing what you can do with determination, spit and glue. Where there's a will there's a way and poundshops are amazing. 🧹🗑️🔨

Well said and experience of life has gave you the right to give that opinion Wendy, I see the very same and I'm 20 years behind you.

welcome to thatchers Britain 30 years down the road this the reality

I'm in Australia and I could have written your comment myself.

kotugirl Weerasekare Beirut looks a lot better than this lol

@kotugirl Weerasekare Clearly you've not seen Beirut. The place rocks!

No where near like Beirut, Syria, Palestine and all the other middle Eastern countries they bombed!!

Beirut used to be amazing....

@@andreasyouakin2280 Beirut is amazing

This is one of the many reasons we need an interventionist Labour government - not a Tory one that just sits back, shrugs its shoulders and says 'it's the will of the free market'.

@@ronnotwrong4936 " interventionist ".......that sounds a bit sinister.

@Davy Tornado - Being interventionist isn't scary. Not being interventionist is scary. It's one of the differences between left and right wing viewpoints. It's much easier to be a Tory government than a Labour one because the Tories don't do anything other than cut spending and privatize anything still state owned so the sales proceeds can be used to fund tax cuts for rich people. If you're not in the richest 1% vote Labour.

something like a land-value-tax could have helped. The problem is we're all trying to squeeze into a few large cities - if there was a bit of chronic economic pressure for people to seek other places then capitalists will take a chance in ghost towns and work hard to market the place. What happened is that an economic pressure was applied to this village instead (the bedroom tax in a homogenous estate is a harder pressure than it is in a diversely partitioned city so people naturally left the village for the city - exactly the opposite from what most people posting here seem to want). Capitalism is the only way most people can be effective and happy, you just have to be humanist capitalists and make sure you set the tax landscape so capitalists naturally have the moral effects. This is because most people seek out opportunities to thrive - so you have to avoid fighting them or else you'll cost too much and hurt them and you don't want to hurt most people or else you're worse than capitalists. Herd Not Hurt.

No they created them and made jobs for the people so they could live in them.

@Conor, actually the king did that to the medieval lords - it was called the window tax. At least the bedroom tax, in a sane town instead of an OCD megalomaniac's wet dream, applies a pressure for people to select the most suitable spaces to free up spaces that are more suited to other people. Of course some land value tax system could do the same. Maybe it's right that these buildings should be empty. Maybe the housing association messed up their business.

50000 people used to live here... Now it's a ghost town

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Bands don’t play no more

@@lfarrell6375 to much fighting on the dancefloor

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Our government don't give a shit unless it affects them.

flowersandchains Tat's right turn into a landfill site. Then, Those peasants will have something to eat and most of all STEAL!🤢

Gareth Wilkin I'm not in the government. Give them nothing, nothing at all Including state benefits dental and hospital care, Above all HOPE.

Not too far from the truth as a lot of the redundant miners would walk dogs in the nearby woods and beach. The mine was closed in the mid 1980s and as such the whole community was badly let down and suffered accordingly. Durham County Council would not have the monetary resources to refurbish these properties. I grew up here and left in 1965 to join the Air Force and I am so sad to see what has happened to these houses and had relatives living in many of them. However, they only form part of the village and today. these streets are surrounded by good housing. I do not have the words to properly describe what a thriving, hard working and mostly friendly place Horden was when the Pit was working. Lots of smoke and coal dust in the air but the houses were kept clean and tidy. The coal was mined under the North Sea and I believe went as far as 5 miles under the Ocean. We were taught at school that there were enough coal reserves to last for at least a further hundred years. The Pit Spoil was dumped by ariel flight into the sea which turned the beach into a black quagmire. The National Trust and Durham Coast Heritage Project is gradually reclaiming it but it will take years to get back to its natural state. I live in Southern England now but I will never disdain the people and I am proud of the area I come from. I worked hard all my life and I was just following the ethic set by my Grandfathers, Father and Uncles who were all miners. They suffered injuries and had good and bad time and were more than well supported by their womenfolk I hope and pray that things will get better for the young people there who are not fortunate as I have been. I do not claim to know what the answer is. When I served in the Low Countries and Germany the Governments there have had the foresight to place their coal mines in mothballs in case they are needed in the future. Our mines were just abandoned.

Why you wanna make ghosts that live in those house homeless? Evil human..

Why not DO BOTH?!!

@@Emma-ex8gx agreed

They. Look at redevelopment in Manchester and Boot estate in Liverpool

So true!

@@pyeltd.5457 Manchester and Liverpool aren't northern.

Kieran Dunn they are.

Rollyz "Lazy" people, so my friend who got abused all his life and then chucked out at 17 with no job prospects deserves to live in a mold infested house with no working shower in a God awful area. There are people taking advantage of the system but when cuts are made people who need genuine help get shitted on. Not all of us came from nice families who wanted us educated or even fed us properly you know.

Rollyz Disabled people are literally dying because their benefits were taken away, you're full of shit. Cutting benefits has not made people more likely to go out and find work.

Rollyz *Jeremy Corbyn doesn't support Hezbollah, Hamas and other groups you listed. So why lie? The Torres made all those cuts taking money away from the weakest in society instead of the strongest and wealthiest in society. The Torres made all those budget cuts, etch and for what? The Torres said they would balance the book's but they haven't balanced shit. The Torres say one thing and do another. How many times has Theresa May lied and performed U turns? She said no election 7 times and then launched an election to win a majority...she lost!*

Rollyz think of it this way mate. Your not gonna get very far calling people your enemy are ya lol. what's wrong with laying a wreath on someone's grave? killing is wrong no matter the reason and celebrating someone's death is wrong no matter the reason. They all have families they are all human beings politics and religion is a crock of shit at the end of the day, it's about people. And to make progress you have to treat a situation as such

Rollyz I think you'll find almost around 40% of the uk population of this country voted to make that man prime minister a couple of days ago... so yeah

Yeah, which means they're not really being sold for a quid, I'd spend £50 and buy 50 houses, I can't even afford to rent down south.

If they moved out because of the bedroom tax they wouldn't move back in later on by paying ￡1 to buy it because it would still be a council owned. The councils at no stage since Right to buy came into effect forced people to move out so they could offload 100's or 1000's of properties to the Private sector. That's just not how Right to Buy was supposed to work.

Council said no as not want maintain them. Can any one get them so?? Could people move in and fix up etc

Bedroom tax? I in Dublin in a 2 bed small house with 2 teenage boys and 4 young kids and I pay 80 euro a week and can't afford it but not want b homeless

+Johns Corey Agreed. Build cover to cover like that, with no room for some flowers or a garden, let alone a fruit tree. Then they wonder why they won't sell I'm glad i'm not the only one who noticed they left no space for plants.

That's what I was thinking. It's all concrete slabs. I hope those houses have back gardens at least

You guys don't understand, they were built for miners and were owned by the local mineowners and factory owners so that their employees could have cheap housing close to the mines and factories. They were not built to look attractive they were built 100 years or more ago to house workers and that was the sole purpose.

They soon pulled all the Coal Mines down they could not wait to demolish the lot. Horden Blackhall Wingate Easingto Etc it sadly is a Dump No community spirit and the comradeship has gone.

Johns Corey look out of your window dipstick, it' a lawn. Ok knobhead?

Let people pay their way in life look after them but not free handouts