Saturday, Aug 16, 2008
Hundreds of families potentially losing their homes.
Express and Star: Stafford town is UK hotspot for repossessions
Stafford has emerged as one of the fastest-growing areas in the country for home repossessions, according to the latest statistics.The affluent town might have been expected by most people to weather the credit crunch better than its less well-off neighbours. But new statistics show that over the past few months, repossessions have exploded by more than 70 per cent, prompting fears of an increase in homelessness in the area. In July, Stafford councillors anticipated a big increase in the number of people needing help with re-housing.
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1. paul said...
Stafford is one of those places that is a little bit twilight zone-ish. Firstly, it's very erm "white". Don't know why but I have suspicions that other types "aren't very welcome". It's also very working class with the only large regional employers being connected with the potteries. A bit of a forgotten city between Derby and Birmingham - not quite in the North but not quite in Birmingham either.
2. The Equaliser said...
Paul,
Could you be more wrong ?
Staffford has a very typical ethnic mix and a very typical socio economic mix. It has its fair share of footballers , pop stars and multi millionaires . It is a county town not a city and it is not between Birmingham and Derby.
Its' biggest employers are the MOD, Marconi (formerly GEC) and the public services (schools etc) .
So what's your point ?
3. nooneo said...
Think you've touched a nerve there paul !
4. montesquieu said...
Another place which was pleasant (& distinctive) until Thatch &co enabled the Tesco-isation of Britain, including 80s shoebox estates all over the place largely on old school playing fields (so as not to upset the nimby types who lived in surrounding villages and nicer suburbs).
The early-mid naughties housing boom though has turned it into a completely over-built sh*it-hole surrounded by yet another layer of overpriced rubbish houses (in common with pleasant market towns all over England. I do hope the tories, when they get re-elected, don't think the've been forgiven for this wanton destruction of some of the most characterful parts of england, into a homogenised brick nightmare).
Anyway I agree with Equaliser up to a point: it's very far from any kind of line you could draw between Derby and Birmingham! But footballers ... not premiership anyway for sure.
5. mytimeisnigh said...
I've always thought Stafford was inbetween Wolverhampton and Stoke, could be wrong though, as can't be bothered to check a map. Anyway, I'm sure it's not unlike many other towns in England.
The fall out from the housing boom looks set to have disasterous impact on society, especially as there is so little social housing available. I know from personal experience, that not feeling it's a good move to buy a house and having to rent is frustrating. I have been tempted many times to concede and buy, so I can have a place to call home. I'm pleased now that I made the right decision not to buy and although watching a savings balance grow is not so interesting, I'll get my just rewards.
6. enuii said...
The equalisers choice of name has probably something to do with the way he thinks. What doesn't surprise me about Stafford is that most of it's inhabitants (irrespective of their skin shade and their religious inclinations) do not work in Stafford but rely on the M6 to commute to their chosen places of employment and are probably suffering from heavily increased travel, mortgage and general living costs. Stafford is now a commuter town burdened with overinflated new developments heavily dependent on motor transport and as such it is entirely plausible that it will be badly hit when its residents cannot mew themselves out of financial trouble anymore.
7. paul said...
"footballers , pop stars and multi millionaires"
Robbie Williams was from Stoke, not Stafford. There is Marconi though. Are they still there though? I think they closed that office.