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Thread #146309 Message #3403281
Posted By: John MacKenzie
12-Sep-12 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
Subject: RE: BS: Where now Thatcher haters?
Council housing is another ball game.
IF, it was right to let people buy their council houses. Then the monies rised should have been hypothecated, and used to build more council houses, and ONLY for that purpose.
Of those council houses remaining, they should be regulated better. Several thoughts occur. Firstly, where those occupying the house earn over a given amount, surely they should be disqualified from being in need of council housing?
The ability to "inherit" a tenancy should be judged by need, and not by being the child of the previous tenant.
When the number of occupants fslls well below the space available, they should be found smaller, suitable, accomodation, leaving the home vacant for a larger family.
Some of these can be achieved by fixed term renewable tenancies.
In the same way as government grants to councils are regulated by population, so also should the requirement on those councils to build houses for rent.
There is a bloke behind me, living alone in a 3 bedroom council house, which was his parents house. Why can he not be rehoused in more suitable accomodation?
The theory of council housing is great, the practice is crap, and we need to start again with better guidelines.