JJSB
12-14-2012, 10:00 AM
Most shocking documentary I've seen for a while.
A woman's partner left her, she got cancer, couldn't work, ended up 9k in mortgage arrears and Barclays then evicted her.
Then a former investment banker who used to live in Kensington and had his own Wall Street firm ended up so broke a charity paid his air fare back to London from the states, and when he got here he lived in a park for a few weeks eating meals in a soup kitchen, before he finally got housed.
And a family with six kids who got into rent arrears with the council, who claimed it was a deliberate act, so were evicted and have ended up in temporary accommodation mainly one bed flats
Though I don't understand why poorer people expand their families like this if they can barely cope already.
A woman's partner left her, she got cancer, couldn't work, ended up 9k in mortgage arrears and Barclays then evicted her.
Then a former investment banker who used to live in Kensington and had his own Wall Street firm ended up so broke a charity paid his air fare back to London from the states, and when he got here he lived in a park for a few weeks eating meals in a soup kitchen, before he finally got housed.
And a family with six kids who got into rent arrears with the council, who claimed it was a deliberate act, so were evicted and have ended up in temporary accommodation mainly one bed flats
Though I don't understand why poorer people expand their families like this if they can barely cope already.