Council Estate: Difference between revisions

Council estates today are perceived as places of [[Wretched Hive|high crime and deprivation]], populated by asylum seekers ,<ref>there is no evidence that they jump the queue at all, although their homeless status can buy them a few more points on most housing associations' scales of need</ref>, the long-term unemployed, and [[Teen Pregnancy|teenage mothers]] who got pregnant just to get a council flat. This has not been helped by the recent Shannon Matthews case, where a mother pretended her own daughter had been kidnapped (her lover was in fact holding her) in order to [[Missing White Woman Syndrome|gain publicity and money from the press]].

** A 2012 BBC NI documentary series profiled life on one of these estates; the mainly Loyalist Ballysally in Coleraine. While one of the programmes featured an Orange band from the neighbourhood marching on 12th12 July, the series generally avoided portraying the estate as a hotbed of sectarianism.