28th November 2011.
White working–class views of neighbourhood, cohesion and change.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has today released a new report entitled:
“White working–class views of neighbourhood, cohesion and change”.
The report shows that White people feel the local authorities don't care about
them, but do care for the ethnic minority populations, so they are disadvantaged
in their own land. One of the quotes given in the report illustrates the problem:
“We are the forgot–about people. You plonked us here and forgot about us.
Dumped in the tribal site.”
One particular matter that came up again and again was social housing. A view
commonly held by the white people was that they thought minorities were able to
jump the queue for social housing, minority groups that did not add anything
positive to the area.
As for the phrase ‘social cohesion’, that was foreign to white working class
vocabulary, just a phrase forced upon them by the authorities who seemed to have
a ‘top down’ approach to planning, rather than a ‘bottom up’ approach.
NB. A post about this matter was made 28th November. Later, by accident two news items, one being this one, were accidentally deleted. This new post made 20th December replaces the original post