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04-11-2010, 18:02
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Right to Buy Council houses
Scotland has ended the right to buy your council house to new council and social housing tenants
BBC News - MSPs vote to end 'right to buy' council houses Do you think its right to end this now ... or should the right to buy still go on .. especially if the houses arent being replaced ...
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04-11-2010, 18:09
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
It is about time they did this. Lets hope the real Government do the same for the whole of the UK.
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04-11-2010, 18:37
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
i havent read the link but a neighbour of mine didn't have the right to buy she had the right to acquire, whatever that means
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04-11-2010, 18:46
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
its the same .. its because its a housing association rather than the council ...
Buying your housing association home - the Right to Acquire scheme : Directgov - Home and community rather than Buying your council home - the Right to Buy scheme : Directgov - Home and community
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04-11-2010, 18:56
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
The whole point of council housing was to provide affordable housing through renting for people which were unable to afford private landlord rents, the right to buy somewhat helped poorer people to get on the housing ladder but diminished council renting stocks in the process.There is also an issue of better off people living on cheap rents in council houses which i think is wrong,the right to rent at lower council rates i think should be means tested this could result in housing benefit payments being reduced to private sector landlords thus reducing the benefits bill
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04-11-2010, 19:09
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
ahhhh, Cheers Jen
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04-11-2010, 19:11
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
out of 22 houses around me ... back in 1995 .. i would say 2 were privately owned .. the rest were council houses .... in 2010... theres 3 council owned the rest were all bought from the council .... and as anyone who knows the area where i live .. theres no new houses been built to replace the ones which have been sold.
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04-11-2010, 19:26
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
Council houses were built to rent not to sell . It should have and should now stay that way .
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04-11-2010, 21:32
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
When a Council does not build replacement homes, then RTB should be suspended. RTB is only popular because of the discounts.
People have benefitted but there are downsides. Home ownership but homes in better areas have all been sold leaving the poorer stock. Mixed tenure has been a positive, people are quite happy to live on council estates these days, but the discounts have been paid for by everyone else in increased taxation, unpaid loans. Housing waiting lists are long and housing choice no longer exists. The only option being the PRS. |
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04-11-2010, 21:35
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
Was the biggest mistake ever made the right to buy em in my opinion, fer reasons already mentioned.
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04-11-2010, 21:37
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
Graham - Rule No 1 for an MP - don't confuse your constituents. Tell all what PRS means.
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04-11-2010, 22:14
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
or if you bought one and the biggest bunch of numpties moved next door and you were stuck there
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Re: Right to Buy Council houses
PRS private rented sector. Sorry
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