The death of 'social' housing

Gorgeous_George

Ever wondered why the Tories sold council houses at a discount to peope who could have afforded to buy on the open market (other than the obvious gerrymandering and buying of votes)?

Ever wondered why councils don't build more social housing when the need is blindingly obvious?

Check this out (BBC link)

It might only be ~£12 per home but I'm sure there is much more damage yet to be discovered.

GG

Edit: Typo and poor maths

theartfullodger

Ever wondered why Thatcher started flogging council houses and made rules preventing councils using the money raised for building new council houses??

Spite & political manipulation, IMHO.

Cheers!

Artful

McKneff

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Ever wondered why the Toris sold council houses at a discount to peope who could have afforded to buy on the open market (other than the obvious gerrymandering and buying of votes)?

Dont be daft, we bought our council house in 1980 there is no way we could have afforded to buy from the open market.

shirlgirl2004

I have a friend who bought hers about 15 years ago. She's paid the mortgage off now, (using inheritance) she'd like to move but even though they both work and the children are grown up she still can't afford to sell & buy something else.

diable

Why did Labour bring in rent reforms............

poppysarah

Some councils charge for repairs that are not the result of crime (ie: you need a crime ref number)

Flyboy152

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

Ever wondered why the Toris sold council houses at a discount to peope who could have afforded to buy on the open market (other than the obvious gerrymandering and buying of votes)?

Ever wondered why councils don't build more social housing when the need is blindingly obvious?

Check this out (BBC link)

It might only be ~£120 per home but I'm sure there is much more damage yet to be discovered.

GG

Actually it's twelve pounds per home. A pound a month on the rent of every home.

Flyboy152

diable wrote: »

Why did Labour bring in rent reforms............

Because tenants were getting ripped off, sounds like a good reason to me.

Flyboy152

In 2010/11, the bill for damage ran to £231,000 - which the company said was the equivalent of fitting more than a 150 new bathrooms.

Someone has their back pocket well and truly open. That's one thousand five hundred pounds per bathroom. I can have a bathroom fully kitted out for for less than eight hundred pounds, including labour, fittings and tiling (and that's not "value" goods either). If they are fitting one hundred and fifty bathrooms, their purchasing power is far greater than mine.

olias

Ever wondered why some people still insist everything is Thatcher and the Tories fault when it's Blair and Brown who F***ed our economy, and it's Blair who's swanning around with tens of millions of pounds in a web of secret hidden companys and a smug grin on his face?

Olias

Flyboy152

olias wrote: »

Ever wondered why some people still insist everything is Thatcher and the Tories fault when it's Blair and Brown who F***ed our economy, and it's Blair who's swanning around with tens of millions of pounds in a web of secret hidden companys and a smug grin on his face?

Olias

This is nothing to do with the current economic situation we are in. This is an inherent problem that has been built over the last thirty years. We don't go through a recession and all of sudden lose all our social housing stock overnight.