How many people should we prevent from buying a house?

Jimmy_31

wotsthat wrote: »

That's the answer to the question "can you rent houses in nice areas and buy houses in not so nice areas?" Of course you can.

The question posed was think of nice areas you'd like to live and then think of unpleasant areas you wouldn't like to live. I'm betting that that your 'nice' list is dominated by properties occupied by the owners and vice versa.

Should the government be encouraging increased reliance on the rental market. No, IMO, it's a step backwards.

In my opinion you are correct, where i live its mostly council and HA properties with a large number of private rents and its a deprived area that has been forgotten about a long time ago.

The town up the road where i would like to move to is mostly private housing lived in by the owners and it is a much nicer safer town to live in.

The schools in the nicer town are a lot better and have had all new sports halls and courts built over the last ten years, my old high school was demolished about ten years ago because not enough people were sending their kids there.