COMMUNITIES IN PERIL

HI  I've been off line for quite a while: but the latest lunacy has spurred me to  put finger to keyboard again . Some time ago  it was announced that local authority housing tenants  would lose benefits if they had a spare room  ( presumably  LA tenants don't have grandchildren ,or relatives that visit, and live in splendid isolation .) Now it appears that it has been suggested that  elderly people will be offered "tax breaks"  to move to smaller houses . Surely the obverse of this means that if you want to stay in the house that you have bought  you will be paying  extra tax for the  privilege .( I wonder if the PM or others in parliament will be offered tax breaks  to move out of their multi-roomed  mansions , still deals like this don,t apply to the people who make the rules , just the people who are the  victims )  However to get to the real point  ,This stupid rule will lead to the break up of communities . I am an elderly, 67 year old who does not like the exclusive company of older people.  Children  of which I have 8 grandchildren , are noisy, disorganised , and ALIVE ,  Mixed communities of all ages  work because all age groups have something to offer other age groups.  If you move older people to small accommodation you are likely to lose this mix ,as in my experience housing types tend to be grouped together . Is this a move to create elderly ghettos  so when the time comes we can all be euthanized at the same time? I don't really  believe this,  but the ghetto bit is true .  The real problem stems as many things do from the thatcher era  .When tenants of LA housing were given the right to buy ,the money did not go back into the housing budget but was absorbed into the amopherous mass of government monies ,leaving an ongoing shortfall of affordable housing
 
This is nothing to do with the rant  but the elderly gentilman in the car  had about 5 seconds ago  given a piece of bread to a single solitary seagull . at the time there  were no other seagulls to be seen.