What is your personal opinion on rtb policy?

gomer

Enlighten us all here

sevenhills

If it benefits me to the tune of £30,000, I am in favour.


If it benefits someone else to the tune of £30,000 I think its outrageous and a disastrous give away.

gomer

I'm in love lol x

Marvel1

Whoever suggests to get rid of RTB in the next election gets my vote.

sevenhills

Marvel1 wrote: »

Whoever suggests to get rid of RTB in the next election gets my vote.

Maybe just reducing the discount would be a start, we need to build more, that is the problem.

gomer

Marvel1 wrote: »

Whoever suggests to get rid of RTB in the next election gets my vote.

Your reason?

G_M

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Doom_and_Gloom

sevenhills wrote: »

Maybe just reducing the discount would be a start, we need to build more, that is the problem.

While building more is indeed needed the reality is that if you sell off existing council or housing association homes that are affordable you don't help the people that are in need of affordable housing right now. Many people are in private housing just barely getting by due to rents being unaffordable but having no other option.
RTB should be scrapped (exceptions for those with adapted homes who should have the option. However it should be stated that within 2 years of the death of the person needing the adaption they sell it back to the council and leave so it can be used by someone needing it, only not having to do so if someone else living in said home also needs the adaptions. Basically if it gets sold it goes back to the council only so kind of on loan so stock doesn't go down).
More affordable housing should be built and RTB not an option for the majority. Those that get RTB on the 'adaption scheme' know it is on the basis that stock is given back when no longer needed or they want to move and sell.

Marvel1

gomer wrote: »

Your reason?

They are meant for people who need them, if they can afford to buy then buy a private one, so that someone in need can take their place, like they needed.

Also the fact that some can rent it out, are they too going to offer cheap rent? Nope, just greed.

Also we mostly see threads on here about RTB are from young adults wanting to buy it - their parents are the ones on the tenancy (or whatever they call it). They make something up, it's my childhood home blah blah blah, let's cut the crap, you want a cheap house and to screw over your parents who are secure.

PasturesNew

It wouldn't seem so bad if everybody had an equal choice to be in that position...

As a single person, where I grew up, I was on the list over 10 years and phoned them to ask "how long do you think..." and they said "another 20 years to get a room in a shared house" as they simply didn't have/build/own any single person little places (it was a village/rural).

It's a "hand out" for the lucky .... most often "families" and "couples" ... as "single" seems to always be back of the queue for anything in life.

If the cherry came round to all of us and we all had a chance to bite it ..... then it's "fair dos"... but it's a skewed system for many.

seven-day-weekend

I have changed my opinion over the last two decades.

My opinion now is this : Sell off all old and hard-to-maintain housing stock, giving sitting tenants the first option (maybe with a small discount to encourage them to buy it).

Then use the money to build new housing stock, which is more in keeping with the housing needs of today. Offer this to tried and tested tenants who are living in an older property and wish to upgrade, and fill the vacated older properties with those on the waiting list. If there is then spare capacity in the new houses, give it to people on the waiting list, but with a twelve-month 'trial' tenancy. If at the end of this they have not paid their rent, or looked after the place, without a good reason, turf them out.

That way the Council gets better housing stock AND more responsible tenants.

ETA : No house under 30 years old should be eligible for RTB and people should have been tenants for at least ten years.