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It was the "at less than market value" part I had a problem with. I've no issue with people being allowed to buy the council house they've lived in for years.

My understanding was that most of the properties were so expensive to maintain and the rents so low, the government would have been financially better off just giving them away and building new ones than keeping them. Selling them cheap ensured most many of the tenants could afford to buy them and cease to be a long-term burden via subsidised housing.


There are some post war houses in this village (and many others in the [LIFTED]) that were built with a shelf life of 15 years. Terrible construction and the cost of updating them with insulation and glazing would have cost the council had many of them not been sold under the RTB.

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[(and many others in the [LIFTED])

I'm dying to know what that is, because I can't for the life of me think of a rude word that fits in that context.

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As the saying goes 'Those who have not learned from the mistakes of the past are destined to repeat them'.

That applies equally to every penis that keeps voting Tory.


I would say the same about all the penises that kept voting labour over the last decade.

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As the saying goes 'Those who have not learned from the mistakes of the past are destined to repeat them'.

That applies equally to every penis that keeps voting Tory.


I would say the same about all the penises that kept voting labour over the last decade.

Same goes for the other parties too. And even worse, those peni that couldn't be bothered to even vote at all.

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Same goes for the other parties too. And even worse, those peni that couldn't be bothered to even vote at all.

You're a penis, I'm a penis, we're all peni.

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[(and many others in the [LIFTED])

I'm dying to know what that is, because I can't for the life of me think of a rude word that fits in that context.

Jon


County. I guess I must have typed o c u n t y .

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I think this attitude is part of the problem:

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She said: "I want to get somewhere as soon as I turn 18, literally on my 18th birthday.

"I think all I'll be able to do is rent a flat. My dad's just bought a house and it's taken all of our money, so he can't afford anything for me.

"When I get my house it will be me paying for it, so I might have to wait a bit longer."
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No sh!t. We were in our 30's when we got our house, when I was younger the only people I ever knew who had their own house had been bought them by their parents.

FFS.

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My understanding was that most of the properties were so expensive to maintain and the rents so low, the government would have been financially better off just giving them away and building new ones than keeping them. Selling them cheap ensured most many of the tenants could afford to buy them and cease to be a long-term burden via subsidised housing.


This may be true, but the funds raised simply weren't ploughed back into building and maintaining further social housing stock.

This is the problem now. There aren't enough council houses available, and people can't afford to rent privately or buy their own home, and hardly anyone is actually building social housing any more.

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