Buy a house for £1?

Graham_Devon

CLAPTON wrote: »

strange

two years ago they were rubbish houses incapable of making a decent home and needed to be knocked down, yet now they are going to be OK with a bit or work doing on them.

Politics.

All it shows is what a complete and utter waste of taxpayers money it was purchasing these houses (many from owners who wouldn't want to move) only to have them lying empty, and then for the council to give them away and to provide taxpayers money as loans to people to do them up.

There were also some in Liverpool that were condemned, but a change of council suddenly allowed them to be sold off. The only reason they were condemned as undafe was that's exactly what the council at the time wanted them to be.

There should be more investigations done into these kind of political scams between parties. It wastes so much of our money, yet the people doing it are never reprimanded.

Give them to the squatters for a quid each. Win win!

Loughton_Monkey

Graham_Devon wrote: »

.......Give them to the squatters for a quid each. Win win!

So how much did the council pay to buy them by compulsory purchase? And/or how much did it cost to re-house the tenants?

Far better, wouldn't you say, to have given them to the previous [long standing?] tenants for a quid?

This is presumably one of those many stories of Local Authority bungling, mis-management, mega-wastage, and incompetence. They are simply trying to mask this by pretending to be 'Santa Claus'.

I call it lose-lose.

vivatifosi

There's some background to what's been going on in Stoke in these articles:

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Housing-fund-gives-communities-hope/story-12490922-detail/story.html
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Failed-regeneration-left-slum/story-15943389-detail/story.html

It looks like historically this hasn't been well handled at all. Some houses were emptied of tenants whereas others have stayed put while the empty houses around them have become targets for crime.

If they can get people back into the area and living in the houses that can only be a good thing.

Barneysmom

Loopgames wrote: »

In return you have to be brave enough to live there!! Even giving it away won't tempt me...you?:p

It's 100 times nicer than Ilford!

Loopgames

Barneysmom wrote: »

It's 100 times nicer than Ilford!

That makes ilford houses worth a penny, brilliant! I'll buy the lot.:p

Fiftyshades

Loopgames wrote: »

That makes ilford houses worth a penny, brilliant! I'll buy the lot.:p

I remember a street of houses for sale for a couple of grand and it did not sell they were all boarded up in the 90s. Now they are 80K each and not many left empty.