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renting out a rtb council house
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Red-Squirrel wrote: »Yeah but you probably don't think anybody should be entitled to free oxygen.
No that's fine. Oxygen isn't an issue as far as I'm concerned.0 -
haha,
well I think it takes the onus off the individual, and onto society, to provide a roof over their head
OK I think I follow you, but then would having insecurity of tenure not create an even more irresponsible class of tenant? Not to mention a more unscrupulous class of landlord?0 -
OK I think I follow you, but then would having insecurity of tenure not create an even more irresponsible class of tenant? Not to mention a more unscrupulous class of landlord?
Good landlords would want to keep good tenants.
Bad landlords would lose good tenants.
Bad tenants would lose good landlords.
Bad tenants and bad landlords - well that's a match made in heaven.0 -
OK I think I follow you, but then would having insecurity of tenure not create an even more irresponsible class of tenant? Not to mention a more unscrupulous class of landlord?
The problem here is Right to Buy. Only council tenants have security of tenure. If you want security of tenure for council tenants then Right to Buy doesn't give you that. Once someone has bought a council house they lose the security of tenure because they then become like anyone else who owns a property.
What happens is that when someone buys a council house a property offering security of tenure is lost for ever. So the next person who would have benefitted from that tenancy at that house can now never get it because it is lost for ever. Not only that but losing that secure tenancy on that house by the tenant buying the house and then selling it and moving out means that there is then the possibility of the ex tenant becoming homeless again if they can't afford the costs of the house they have moved to.
I understand that there is a lot of old housing particularly flats that councils don't really want anymore because for example the kitchens are too small to take modern fitted kitchens and appliances and they are not up to modern insulation standards making them expensive to heat. However I still think that as housing has now changed Right to Buy should finish.0
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