| London mayor and housing problems |
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As is the case with every city in the world, they have their problems. London is not short of that! The mayor of London is Boris Johnson he was elected to the position on 2nd May 2008. Boris Johnson was originally born in June 1964 New York. He moved to the city of London with his family in 1969 when he was just 5 years old. There are very few Londoners that have a complete record of English decent, quite funnily Boris Johnson is no exception to the rule. The mayor (Boris) Likes to describe himself as a ‘one man melting-pot’, in fact he is a mixture of multi race ethnicity. His family history has a decent of French, Turkish and Germans. Boris Johnson attended a primary school in the area Camden (London) after that he was educated at the European School in Brussels; He moved onto Ashdown House and later attended Eton College. He went on to read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford as Bracken bury scholar. Whilst he studied at Oxford University he was elected as the president the well known Oxford Union. Upon his graduation at Oxford he moved back to London. Since his election in 2008 (May) Boris has been faced with many a tough decision surrounding the issues of housing and homelessness in London. You would never have imagined that in the UK today there are many people that spend a harsh night sleeping outside in the cold. This is an area of crisis that needs addressing with urgency. It is an issue that has been turned a blind eye to. Teenage runaways, men that are unemployed and were not able to find friends or relatives to take them in, turn to a fate of selling the big issue and begging on the streets. In a country with funding such as England the homelessness problems should not exist it’s a crying shames that the government still allow for member of public to become a victim of homelessness. One of the main causes of the housing crisis is the rapidly increasing rents, and the fact that so many of residents that reside in the UK are staying in council rented accommodation. Local authorities are faced with a problem as once a family have been living inside a house for such a long period of time and renting it. The children grow up and move out leaving the parents (now elderly) in a property that is under vacated. The council have no rights to ask them to move out to a smaller property to make way for a bigger family that could fill all the rooms. Around England 75% of people under 25 are still living with their parents due to an increase rents and no availability of local authority housing for rental. Housing waiting lists for council houses are around 15 years waiting time! Boris Johnson has some tough decisions to make, and solutions to this problem need to be met as soon as possible before more British people are faced with homelessness. A well covered up part of British culture that is not wanted to be known about out there. |
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