Is this right?

Wee_Willy_Harris

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

You said people are not told not to bother putting their names on waiting lists.

I said it did.

You enforced what you said by saying councils want big house waiting lists.

I was called a liar.

Local Authorities publish their allocation policies and make them publicly available for ALL to read. Anyone who wants to put their name on the list can take a look at their LA policy on the matter and see for themselves what they can and can't do. The fact that you have chosen to remain ignorant of them does not alter the facts.

Jimmy_31

PasturesNew wrote: »

Council housing should be awarded - and kept - based on "how nice" you are... how nice you are to people, how considerate, how nicely you keep an area, how crime-free you remain, how you don't throw loud parties or abuse neighbours.

Nice people should be housed just because we need more nice people ...

Mowing the lawn should not entitle anybody to a free house for life

ukcarper

PasturesNew wrote: »

Council housing should be awarded - and kept - based on "how nice" you are... how nice you are to people, how considerate, how nicely you keep an area, how crime-free you remain, how you don't throw loud parties or abuse neighbours.

Nice people should be housed just because we need more nice people ...

Good idea back in the sixties when I lived on a council estate they were quit nice places be nice to see them like that again.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

So can you tell me what is wrong with somebody who works hard for a living being given free council housing so that they can find it easier to get a deposit together for a house of their own. i dont see a problem with it, the money is being wasted on scroungers and i think the country would benefit more if a hard working person was given some help and a scrounger wasnt.

Hard working people saving for a deposit are already given help with the various tax breaks available to savers. Clearly, having sufficient disposable income to be able to save the 20-30% of the value of a property they need for a deposit would indicate that they really don't need to sponge off the taxpayer. And, of course, any benefit to them would soon be countered by the tax increases needed to fund this act of madness.

Jimmy_31

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Local Authorities publish their allocation policies and make them publicly available for ALL to read. Anyone who wants to put their name on the list can take a look at their LA policy on the matter and see for themselves what they can and can't do. The fact that you have chosen to remain ignorant of them does not alter the facts.

Another dodge.

Wee_Willy_Harris

PasturesNew wrote: »

Council housing should be awarded - and kept - based on "how nice" you are... how nice you are to people, how considerate, how nicely you keep an area, how crime-free you remain, how you don't throw loud parties or abuse neighbours.

Nice people should be housed just because we need more nice people ...

Thanks to the right to buy, many former LA properties are now in the hands of the private rented brigade, so those nice people will be just as likely to live next door to one of them as they would a "nice" council tenant. And, of course, even the not so nice have to live somewhere.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

Another [STRIKE]dodge[/STRIKE] fact I didn't bother to find out for myself.

Corrected that for you.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

Mowing the lawn should not entitle anybody to a free house for life

Nor should being the wayward child of a homeowner, but it does.

Jimmy_31

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Hard working people saving for a deposit are already given help with the various tax breaks available to savers. Clearly, having sufficient disposable income to be able to save the 20-30% of the value of a property they need for a deposit would indicate that they really don't need to sponge off the taxpayer. And, of course, any benefit to them would soon be countered by the tax increases needed to fund this act of madness.

Everybody is entitled to tax breaks on their savings.

Not everybody gets a free house.

Why are you saying people have got 20,30% deposits, my friend will one day have that kind of deposit but its probably going to take close to ten years for it to happen because he has to private rent because scrounging scumbags take priority over him.

Stop making things up and twisting them to make it sound like you are right, you ask me to explain what i mean on things so i do and then you just come back with a twisted response again and again.

Jimmy_31

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Corrected that for you.

Did i lie or did i tell the truth ?