Why do people think they are entitled to home ownership?

[unbeliever 10]

I can't understand why some people resent council houses being sold/bought. People are awarded a council house presumably to be in it for virtually their entire life, making it unavailable to anyone else during that time, therefore what difference does it make if its been sold off?

 

When they die or move into a retirement home perhaps, their home then goes to their heirs rather than to somebody else who might need it more.

 

The virtue of the new right to buy scheme is that all proceeds go into more social housing, so the total supply of social housing should be at worst constant.

[999tigger 10]

I can't understand why some people resent council houses being sold/bought. People are awarded a council house presumably to be in it for virtually their entire life, making it unavailable to anyone else during that time, therefore what difference does it make if its been sold off?

 

At least you are consistent Alan.

Do some research on Council/social housing.

If all the housing is sold off then there is no more Council housing for future generations.

[unbeliever 10]

At least you are consistent Alan.

Do some research on Council/social housing.

If all the housing is sold off then there is no more Council housing for future generations.

 

Unless there is a requirement to reinvest the proceeds of the sale in more social housing. Which there is.

[samssong 10]

Chemist where are you when needed.

[Dardandec 32]

Chemist where are you when needed.

 

Picking his money tree.

[El Cid 218]

Unless there is a requirement to reinvest the proceeds of the sale in more social housing. Which there is.

 

Back in the 1980s there were over 3,000,000 social properties, many houses were sold off, around 1,500,000, so just staying the same is not a good option.

[I1L2T3 10]

Unless there is a requirement to reinvest the proceeds of the sale in more social housing. Which there is.

 

If so that is new because in the past there has been a specific ban on using all of the funds from sales to build more properties.

[unbeliever 10]

Back in the 1980s there were over 3,000,000 social properties, many houses were sold off, around 1,500,000, so just staying the same is not a good option.

 

As I understand it, the scheme is intended to gradually increase the supply of social housing. So I think you can buy your council house without much by way of socialist guilt.

 

Myself I'm not generally in favour of the state being in the landlord business. But that's probably a separate conversation.

 

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If so that is new because in the past there has been a specific ban on using all of the funds from sales to build more properties.

 

As I understand it, this is part of the post 2010 right to by mk II.

[El Cid 218]

If so that is new because in the past there has been a specific ban on using all of the funds from sales to build more properties.

 

They are meant to build a new house, if they sell one; but that does not apply to council houses, and its a Conservative promise, so very likely to be broken.

Its certainly not happening yet.

[unbeliever 10]

They are meant to build a new house, if they sell one; but that does not apply to council houses, and its a Conservative promise, so very likely to be broken.

Its certainly not happening yet.

 

 

If you insist on objecting to this scheme on the basis of your politics and cynicism about Conservatives, I assume you'll follow that through by not participating in it.

[El Cid 218]

If you insist on objecting to this scheme on the basis of your politics and cynicism about Conservatives, I assume you'll follow that through by not participating in it.

 

I dont live in a housing association property

 

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If you insist on objecting to this scheme on the basis of your politics and cynicism about Conservatives, I assume you'll follow that through by not participating in it.

 

I based my cynicism on knowledge of previous Conservative policies broken.

 

Would you like me to list them

[unbeliever 10]

I dont live in a housing association property

 

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I based my cynicism on knowledge of previous Conservative policies broken.

 

Would you like me to list them

 

I have a far longer list for Labour. But this is not the thread for that.

So will you, as a principled socialist, be refusing to participate in the right to buy scheme?