Mother remains homeless despite electoral promises
A woman who applied for government housing four years ago is still homeless, despite being promised help "should Labour be elected."
13 October 2013, 12:00am
James J. Piscopo
James J. Piscopo
1 min read
The women was barred from attending a public meeting with the Prime Minister, with an official from the OPM saying her issue was irrelevant for the discussion.
A mother of two boys, aged 5 and 18 months respectively, is still homeless despite filing an application for government housing almost four years ago.
She originally applied for housing after the house she was living in with her parents had parts of the roof condemned. Her situation changed for worse after she was kicked out of the house.
She laments the fact that several MPs and Party officials promised to help her should the Labour Party be elected, but after the 9th March she was continuously ignored.
In comments given to Illum newspaper, she says she was kept from attending a public meeting with the Prime Minister last June to voice her problems. The meeting was part of the ‘Government that listens’ campaign in which members of the cabinet heard what the public had to say.
Read more in today’s issue of ‘Illum’.
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Not in any way to excuse any delays or not to sympathize with her, but why was she also kicked out of her parent's home? No parents would kick out their children for no reason would they?
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x'tahseb issa sur muscat?! biex tara kemm int tlajt b'hanqa ta' hmar weghdi wahdek taqtalek il-weghdi ma jifdal xejn fik. biex tippopa u tiftahar tinqala il-bqija ghalxejn izjed waqqajtilna wiccna l-art filli konna pajjiz b'dignita u filli hadtilna kollox f'kemm ilni nghidlek possibli ma tisthisx tohrog thares f'wicc min ivvutalek? jien kburi nghid li EX-PL u il-fiducja tieghi hija shiha fil-PN!
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Qabel ma nkuu sensazzjonali u nispinjaw l-istejjer, mhux ahjar nistudjaw il-mertu tal-kaz sewwa u naraw ghaliex din il-mara tinsab f'hiex tinsab? Billi giet imweghda li ser tinghata l-ghajnuna, ma jfissirx li bilfors wara nstab li kellha ragun. Dawn l-istejjer ikun fihom hafna rkejjen mudlama u mhux la kemm wiehed jara l-qoxra minn barra. Xorta nghid li jekk hemm xi forma ta' tbatijja, din ghandha tigi sollevata. Pero' hawnhekk tidhol hafna l-eddukazzjoni u li dawn in-nies jiprovvaw jghinu lilhom infushom u mhux jipretendu li haddiehor iggorilhom il-piz taghhom kollu hu.
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Mr.Official from the OPM no issue is irrelevant,before taking it upon yourself you should have asked the Prime Minister to make the decision,its this kind of attitude that made the PN loose thousands of votes.Hopefully our Prime Minister will see that this poor woman and her children will have a decent place to call home.
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Tunes and attitudes change after any party fishing for votes win. Most probably you may be heard again when votes fishing starts again during next election campaign. People should remember during fishing in the coming election, as some people close to these people got what they been promised while other will not. Some times I fell I am not voting for the party which I favor but for the people (basuzzli) around the parties.
