rehctub,

A person doesn't have to be a single mother, or be the mother of one (my daughter is married, no children yet) to recognise a puritan on a moral crusade to segregate those he considers the detritus of society.

Now let's see...

You say runner has summed it up perfectly...so that means that single parents (and by "parents: you actually mean "women") go about en masse destroying their accommodation.

Oh and another thing is that it's obviously women's fault because "they" chose the wrong bloke. It couldn't be the blokes fault at all - because that's what they do - right?

"....losers to breed with other losers...." - as a lower middle puritan, you're a stunner. As for keeping legs closed, well yes they have the same problem as men who can't keep their tackle tucked away.

.....and condoms are even cheaper than the pill - and safer if you're a "loser" of the male variety screwing around.

Deary me, whadaya reckon, pokies are expressly approved of by the government because they get some of their money back.....they don't give a stuff if these evil machines lure in those who can least afford it.

I find you a stunning example of all those characters I've read about in English literature. Penny pinching, self-exemplifying, judgmental...wasn't it you who lamented recently that you got out of business because although you used to "shovel" money into the bank, you couldn't do it anymore?

My disgust comes from the way that you refer to these "people" and the way you target women because they are usually the ones who are left with the "responsibility" to care for the child. Why are they different from the wayward in-laws you assist? It's because you are setting yourself and your rellies up a a superior class.

As for your wife sponsoring overseas, it's a nice thing to do. I'll take her one little girl and raise her one - I'm also a sponsor (Ethiopia and Chile)

Poirot, like many threads, this one is getting out of co troll.

The focus of my thread is on why should a person, parent, or even parents, be entitled to a three bedder when they only have one or two children.

I say again, public housing should be public rooms, not houses.

Even one and two bed units would be a better value for money option for the tax payer.

Okay, rehctub, as you say it's probably time to pull back a bit.

Can't you see what you're suggesting? Have you no idea what happens when you segregate members of the community who are downtrodden in the first place? All those so called "estates" in Britain and America are hell-holes. They are no-go areas for most of the public. They breed crime and disadvantage....and you want to make them pseudo hostels so that even the normal advantages of running a house are denied?

And I'm still gobsmacked that you seem to think that a household headed by a single women is "not" a "family". If you'd have been run over by a refrigerated meat truck when your kids were small and your wife had been left alone - would you still comsider that she was the head of a family?

In WA the housing commission builds its houses in all sorts of suburbs. They are dotted here and there amongst ordinary private housing these days. And guess what? The tenants take more pride in them because they feel part of the community, they are not segregated and resentful, they are part of an ordinary community and they blend in by respecting their environment and their neighbours (in most cases)

Poirot, to you as you seem to be the main protagonist, it all comes
down to the fact that you & us do not have the money to solve this
problem the way you want to see it solved.

So, that being so, adapt to the funds available, even if it only turns
out to be tents.
Make no mistake, no matter how much it is now it will decrease from now on.
The mining boom is already ending and our GDP will be going down with it.

A big contributing factor to the problem is thousands of refugees have been released into communities ( capt Emad and family had 3 houses in Canberra) - All refugees are given preferential housing - where did it come from. Every house refugees get is one less for Australians and the waiting list gets longer. Australia has no homeless refugees but thousand of homeless Australians.

Phillip....Australia has no homeless refugees but thousand of homeless Australians.

Now that's a worry, but what do expect when a government try's to fix something that isn't broken.

They should never be forgiven for that.