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  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Macca83 wrote: »
    To make up for the fact that your generation sold off a lot of the affordable housing in the eighties?



    Don't you your parents generation?
  • Macca83_2
    Macca83_2 Posts: 1,215 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Don't you your parents generation?

    What's the difference?
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Macca83 wrote: »
    What's the difference?


    Quite a bit.
  • Macca83_2
    Macca83_2 Posts: 1,215 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Quite a bit.

    Actually, right to buy was what...? 1979? Which would have made mum 15 so actually no it wasn't my parents generation.

    Although I'm struggling with your point
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    edited 1 March 2014 at 9:53PM
    Macca83 wrote: »
    Actually, right to buy was what...? 1979? Which would have made mum 15 so actually no it wasn't my parents generation.

    Although I'm struggling with your point



    That's right the people who instigated it are their 80s, I might be wrong but I think Clapton is younger than that mind you I think he's not to upset that they have been sold off.
  • PlymouthMaid
    PlymouthMaid Posts: 1,550 Forumite
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    I now house prices are crazy but I do know a lot of young couples who have bought their first houses so it isn't impossible.
    "'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
    Try to make ends meet
    You're a slave to money then you die"
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Macca83 wrote: »
    To make up for the fact that your generation sold off a lot of the affordable housing in the eighties?

    no houses were destroyed by selling subsidised housing

    in many case the same people lived there

    why would having less owner occupier houses, lessen the need the build more house now?
  • Macca83_2
    Macca83_2 Posts: 1,215 Forumite
    PlymouthMaid wrote: »
    I now house prices are crazy but I do know a lot of young couples who have bought their first houses so it isn't impossible.


    I don't think it's impossible either but I do think folk need to lower their expectations in relation to what they can afford.
  • Macca83_2
    Macca83_2 Posts: 1,215 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    no houses were destroyed by selling subsidised housing

    in many case the same people lived there

    why would having less owner occupier houses, lessen the need the build more house now?

    No, definately. There is a severe lack of new builds.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    no houses were destroyed by selling subsidised housing

    in many case the same people lived there

    why would having less owner occupier houses, lessen the need the build more house now?



    If they had used the money received to build more houses it would have helped.
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