Blocco torre per sole donne ad Acton aprire la prossima estate – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyjyyy2r5eo
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Blocco torre per sole donne ad Acton aprire la prossima estate – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyjyyy2r5eo
di CasualSmurf
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I feel sad for anyone that would want to live like that.
Are women disproportionately affected by the housing crisis? I ask this as a feminist. I look around at the way women seem to band together for accomodation (I live in an inclusive all women house myself), and how male friends have had issues finding a place in a house share.
I can see the wage gap argument, of course. And we, as a society, seem to have assumed the validity of exclusionary womens-only housing, so this obviously doesn’t fall foul of the equalities act.
Eh, more affordably housing can’t be bad, even if it’s only for women. That’s for sure.
I’m not too sure how safe I’d feel being a known victim, living in what will no doubt become a well known building in a well known location, surrounded by other known victims.
Security doors are next to useless and I can’t see ‘affordable housing’ having round the clock security. Don’t disagree with the logic behind it but surely advertising it this much is a bad move.
The fact that it’s opening is a huge relief. It means some women will get safety and security. And it means the usual sexist whingers who likely make the women in their own lives miserable can whinge all they like. Go right ahead. It won’t take this housing away from the women who need it.
Women have more legal rights than men do in the west. Prove me wrong.
Women only… until they all start bringing in the boyfriends.
Unpopular opinion but I think this is a REALLY STUPID IDEA. We live in an age of information and having marked buildings like this will no doubt attract unwanted attention. In addition to being not as “safe” a haven for domestic abuse victims as it may appear, unless it was run like a PRISON, and said women never ventured outside its grounds or had any external guests, deliveries etc.
The article states that it is for female abuse victims AND single women on the housing waiting list. What happens if they have partners, what happens if some of those vulnerable women invite problems into the building intentionally or otherwise.
In my view, these things really need to be dynamic and assimilated into regular housing so that residents blend-in and not STAND OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB.
I also imagine that thanks to the publication of this address (thanks UK PRESS For publicising **Brook House in Acton – “**The original estate at Brook House, in Gunnersbury Lane, opposite Acton Town station”), it could become a hotbed for attracting undesirables.
I’m assuming it’s being labelled as woman only but it’s actually not, male victims of DV and abuse could also stay there.
Hope I’m not wrong. Male victims really need a helping hand too.
Fair enough. Let’s see how it goes. Hopefully the rent will be as genuinely affordable as they’ve claimed it will. It’s mad how triggered people get over these things, does it really matter if its solely for women? Narp not really.
I can’t help but feel like announcing “this building is going to be full of often quite vulnerable women” might prove to be a bit of an own goal from a policing and security PoV.
I wonder if I’ll get downvoting for suggesting making a few men only tower blocks
That feels like a magnet to predators just like half way houses post supported accomodations are magnet to drug dealers.
Makes sense. Since it is for women who are subjected to DV.
In theory this sounds like a good idea but in practice it’s a terrible idea.
There is a reason women’s DV refuges are setup the way they are. They are hidden and they are a stepping stone for women to recover and move back into the world after. This could be that place after but you just announced that’s what it is so it no longer becomes a safe place. Refuges are hidden so former partners can’t find them.
Then you have the fact that some women have male partners so this building will not be women only unless you are going to ban men from entering or living there which is a whole new conversation. Advertising as women only is also going to attract undesirables.
Whoever came up with this idea clearly did not think it through. How does this work with equality laws? Why should someone move above someone else on the housing list based solely on gender? No issue with victims of DV moving up the housing list at all as that’s the right thing to do.
According to the government’s research, a third of DV victims are men, yet we never see *anything* supporting them. Could we have a tower block to support men too? Why the segregation at all?
This won’t work because women have male partners and male friends. How will they be managed? What about male children, and even more so when they become teenagers?
I think there are probably much better ways to ensure women attain equality and safety in our society rather than such a blunt instrument as this, and ideas like this take away from perhaps some much better but overlooked important work done by women’s organisations.
I can just see some inevitable trans v terf bust up in the pipeline. Hopefully not though
Great idea on paper but having lived in something similar as a lad I 100% guarantee it will cause issues.
Certain people _always_ refuse to follow the rules and in an environment like that? You can double it.
Look out for the ‘What about men’ comments ‘Wah wah wah!’
ITT: The men who these women are rightly concerned about are mad at this.
I’d be interested to know how this works regarding things like needing stuff fixed like plumbing, electrics etc, and also deliveries. Since those are jobs that tend to be mostly done by men, is there some sort of authority here that seeks out women to do these things?
Some of the comments are extremely sad, even those from women. And the headline is extremely misleading. It’s for domestic abuse victims
This will be misused
The women will have their BFs with them
A whole tower block despite the disproportionate homelessness and lack of shelters for others.
If I recall correctly this is housing for women who have been victims of sexual assault, so I’m not too upset about this.