Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:changes to housing policy needed. | |
Posted by: | Anne England | |
Date/Time: | 07/01/15 12:30:00 |
I agree. As for the families who paid rent 'perhaps for decades' - did they not also benefit from not having to put in central heating, fixing the boiler when it went wrong, installing new windows/bathrooms/kitchens - all at a very reasonable all-inclusive rent? Apart from which, many who bought did not pay rent 'for decades'. I know somebody who is looking to buy her flat on the Green Dragon estate right now but who thinks that the Council should fix the roof before she buys. I lived in bedsits until I was 31 and scrapped enough together for the minimum deposit and had to have the bathroom roof replaced as a condition of the mortgage then (like most of us) spend 25 years paying off the mortgage and making improvements as I could afford them (or not). Social housing should have been left as it was - and yes, I think we need it and more should be built. I just don't see what the benefit is/was of a few people profiting to such a great extent and the social housing stock at the same time being depleted. |