Old Conservatives don't understand

[JohnD]

If by a few you mean around 15,000 then yes.

The arguments motorbiking attempts are not necessarily trustworthy.

 

[IT Minion]

I don't mind the RTB concept, but they way it has operated has meant that the social housing stock has been shredded since it was introduced.

At least 1:1 build to sale ratio is needed

 

[JohnD]

I don't mind the RTB concept, but they way it has operated has meant that the social housing stock has been shredded since it was introduced.

You don't think that was the political objective of the concept?

 

[gas112]

of course there was coming from the record lost days to strikes people downing tools on a whim country on its knees .
Get people to buy their houses ,
Come home from work oh love we are going on strike .
Oh no your not we have a mortgage to pay now and we are not losing this house because of some union t~at

 

[IT Minion]

You don't think that was the political objective of the concept?

It wouldn't surprise me at all. But we can't change what happened 50 years ago.

 

[JohnD]

We can put a stop to it

And we can try to repair some of the damage.

 

[JP_]

You have to ask why didn’t New Labour fix this problem?

Huh? I bought my first home under "New Labour". As did most of my mates, who were all starting to work in the late 90s.

Labour didn't fix it, because it wasn't broken. The Tories broke it!

 

[carmanmemoranda]

of course there was coming from the record lost days to strikes people downing tools on a whim country on its knees .
Get people to buy their houses ,
Come home from work oh love we are going on strike .
Oh no your not we have a mortgage to pay now and we are not losing this house because of some union t~at

She sold the houses to pay for the miners strikes, redundancies.

Agree with the mortgage bit keeping people at work though.

If the houses had been replaced it would have been OK too. But was just a sell off and opening the market to the privateers

 

[carmanmemoranda]

We can put a stop to it

And we can try to repair some of the damage.

It wouldn't take much to change it either, slowly at 1st. But the big landlords now have the upper hand

 

[ellal]

Motorbiking is not in favour of owners being forced to sell homes below their value

(Unless he doesn't like the owner)

Maybe motorbiking could let us know his opinion (if he hasn't already done so) of councils taking charge of the over 250,000 empty private properties?

 

[Deleted member 221031]

It’s not just selling the houses for a loss, the council doesn’t have to maintain it anymore and the rent paid up to date will cover the loss.

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Maybe motorbiking could let us know his opinion (if he hasn't already done so) of councils taking charge of the over 250,000 empty private properties?

Which properties might that be

 

[carmanmemoranda]

It’s not just selling the houses for a loss, the council doesn’t have to maintain it anymore and the rent paid up to date will cover the loss.

Most of the houses had been fully paid for. Rent would cover maintenance.

Selling assets and not replacing them doesn't help the council, the renters, or the taxpayer.

It does benefit a few.

 

[Notch7]

It’s not just selling the houses for a loss, the council doesn’t have to maintain it anymore and the rent paid up to date will cover the loss.

If you own a house you pay to maintain it
If you rent a house, the cost of the maintenance is included in the rent, so you still pay it

Councils don’t save on maintenance costs by not having council houses, they just pay the money to somebody else.

 

[Deleted member 221031]

If you own a house you pay to maintain it
If you rent a house, the cost of the maintenance is included in the rent, so you still pay it

Councils don’t save on maintenance costs by not having council houses, they just pay the money to somebody else.

You’ve proved my point there, thank you.

And so was born the BTL boom! Thank you again.