Right To Buy Discount By Husband

ihatemyhouse

I know that there was a lot of house bought where I lived (widnes) kids where buying them for there parents,

charlieismydarling

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

And, given the opportunity, wouldn't you?

You'd be stupid not to!

No I wouldn't. Why would I?

Having been given the chance to get back on my feet after being homeless, I am grateful to have social housing. If ever I want to buy, I would do so on the open market and pass the opportunity on to the next person in need.

lighting_up_the_chalice

charlieismydarling wrote: »

No I wouldn't. Why would I?

Having been given the chance to get back on my feet after being homeless, I am grateful to have social housing. If ever I want to buy, I would do so on the open market and pass the opportunity on to the next person in need.

Then you are a fool.

Right to buy, as a policy, is wrong. But to not take advantage of it, if given the opportunity, is foolish. A bit like insisting that the supermarket charge you full price for discounted produce!

Johnandabby

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

Then you are a fool.

Right to buy, as a policy, is wrong. But to not take advantage of it, if given the opportunity, is foolish. A bit like insisting that the supermarket charge you full price for discounted produce!

And what a fantastic world if everyone had that attitude.....because money IS the only goal :eek:

lighting_up_the_chalice

Johnandabby wrote: »

And what a fantastic world if everyone had that attitude.....because money IS the only goal :eek:

I'm not aware of anyone refusing the discounts offered in their weekly shop.. indeed, this site encourages it. So why refuse a discount on buying your home?

The POLICY may be wrong... and I won't argue with that... But taking advantage of it isn't, surely.

charlieismydarling

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

Then you are a fool.

Right to buy, as a policy, is wrong. But to not take advantage of it, if given the opportunity, is foolish. A bit like insisting that the supermarket charge you full price for discounted produce!

Wrong is wrong surely?

A bit like saying it is ok to falsely claim benefits to which you are not entitled. Benefit fraud, which people here get so het up about.

I am not a fool, I just have strong morals that don't conveniently change when it suits me personally. I am strongly anti right to buy, more so when relatives buy parents or grandparents properties. It is so wrong and I wish the public feeling on this would be as strong as it is on other, less serious benefit fraud.

Johnandabby

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

I'm not aware of anyone refusing the discounts offered in their weekly shop.. indeed, this site encourages it. So why refuse a discount on buying your home?

The POLICY may be wrong... and I won't argue with that... But taking advantage of it isn't, surely.

Supermarkets provide discounts to make consumers buy more products - as private companies they have the right to reduce their profits on certain products to get consumers in the door.

'Taking advantage' of social housing at taxpayers expense is nowhere near the same. There has to be some moral accountability - just because the policy is in place doesn't make it morally right to follow and I won't insult you by detailing past policies that are now seen as morally repugnant. I'm sure I also heard some MPs making the same lame argument re expenses...

sandsni

I don't think anyone is suggesting someone shouldn't take advantage of the RTB discount IF THEY ARE ENTITLED TO IT. But if someone has already used the discount to buy a house they lived in at the time then do they have the right to use a tax-payer-funded discount to buy a second house? There's another thread running ATM where the RTB buyer wants to use the RTB property as a let and buy another house. I thought the whole idea of RTB was to allow people who couldn't afford to buy on the open market to own their own home, not to set up a letting business.


Presumably the OPs OH willingly chose to be a part of the RTB on his parents' house. If he simply stumped up the cash to allow his parents to buy a house for their old age then fair enough, but if he used his name and entitlement to apply for the discount then why should he be entitled to a second discount?

lighting_up_the_chalice

sandsni wrote: »

I don't think anyone is suggesting someone shouldn't take advantage of the RTB discount IF THEY ARE ENTITLED TO IT. But if someone has already used the discount to buy a house they lived in at the time then do they have the right to use a tax-payer-funded discount to buy a second house? There's another thread running ATM where the RTB buyer wants to use the RTB property as a let and buy another house. I thought the whole idea of RTB was to allow people who couldn't afford to buy on the open market to own their own home, not to set up a letting business.


Presumably the OPs OH willingly chose to be a part of the RTB on his parents' house. If he simply stumped up the cash to allow his parents to buy a house for their old age then fair enough, but if he used his name and entitlement to apply for the discount then why should he be entitled to a second discount?

The bottom line is, if the regulations allow it, they allow it. You and I may not agree with it, but that's not the question asked.

sandsni

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

The bottom line is, if the regulations allow it, they allow it. You and I may not agree with it, but that's not the question asked.

If the regulations allowed people to benefit from more than one discount then why would there be a question about it on the form? It would be irrelevant.