They definitely need to take away right to buy. Would also help reduce the number of scummy landlords as would eventually increase council housing stock. Agree that some people would just sit on their
a and not try to better themselves if they thought they’d have to go out and find their own accommodation if they were means tested, but I’d like to hope that maybe people would have a conscience and if they had needed a council house but suddenly had a change of fortune and could afford to rent privately or even buy they’d do that and let someone genuinely in need have somewhere to call home, but sadly people don’t seem to think like that anymore. Same with people that refuse to downsize and are living alone in a 3/4 bed house after their family have gone. Our dear Alex will grab anything and everything she can, no way she’ll think of some other struggling young single mum and go out and rent her own house.
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Scotland and Wales have abolished it, England were going to but Boris was that desperate to gain Labour votes at the last election he extended the scheme and now Labour are in power it’s unlikely it’ll end, although would love to see that happen a couple of months before she’d be eligible to buy…can you imagine the posts/stories then