This is not a rant

fabforty

The answer is no, they are not reassessed. Anyone can apply for social housing however only those who are in the greatest need - usually statutorily homeless or overcrowded - are likely to be successful due to the housing shortage. High house prices and also the increasingly high cost of renting privately means that even those on reasonable salaries often can't afford to buy their own home and if they are already in social housing (which means low rent and security of tenure), it's not surprising that few choose to move out. Once housed, they can remain regardless of the change in their financial circumstances - even a lottery winner cannot be forced out of their council house.There was a scheme called the Tenants incentive Scheme, where tenants received a lump sum of 16k to put towards the cost of purchasing their own home. This scheme ended around 1998-2000, when you could buy a three bed terrace in London for 100k and the 16k provided healthy deposit.

PasturesNew

Also, once you're in council accommodation, usually they don't ask you to move - but if they do, then they will even pay a few thousand pounds for you to move and to paint the new place etc. e.g. if they were demolishing your place, they'd offer you appropriate accommodation elsewhere so they could do it - and you're recompensed, unlike in private rented where you're just given notice and have to move entirely at your own expense and without another place being provided to move into.

Once in a council house, a tenant might even then stay there and buy houses locally to rent out, so quite a few will be BTL landlords yet in cheap housing.

Pont

PasturesNew wrote: »

Once in a council house, a tenant might even then stay there and buy houses locally to rent out, so quite a few will be BTL landlords yet in cheap housing.

Not sure about council housing but this would not be allowed under the terms of the tenancy agreement with my local HA. I know of a woman who split with her husband, was housed by the HA, got back together with her husband, he moved in with her, they rented their marital home out, they got evicted!

Graham_Devon

Theres an MP sitting in a council home in London, who owns over 20 houses as BTL's. But he remains in his council house.

I can understand his reasons for doing so too, he will be paying half price rent (under normal circumstances), the house will be built well and have a decent sized garden and rooms etc. Have things called built in cupboards too!

The cheap rent means you can easily afford to then buy other properties to bring in an income. Plus, that MP could, if he chose too, probably take the RTB payment to buy out his council home. If he did get moved on, all his moving costs would be covered by the taxpayer.

Once your in one of these places why on earth would you move unless the place was getting you down!?