How To Get A Council House.

[Cmitchell]

We watched with interest the documentary "how to get a council house" last night, and it got us wondering about when councils used let their tenants buy the council houses.

What is in it for the councils/government? What benefit do they get?

[TWR]

It was a Thatcher Idea Cm, that's why there is a shortage.

[Canary42]

Votes

[Cmitchell]

Yes, I know that but why? What was the benefit to them the govmt or the councils?

[ummmm]

They'd have to get a mortgage, which means they'd have to have a job....

[TWR]

A Sweetner to Voters,

[sandyRoe]

And the Tories are at it again. This time they plan to sell off Housing Association properties. They say the money raised from the sales should be used to build new homes but I'd believe that when I see it.

[Baldric]

Individual local authorities have always had the ability to sell council houses to their tenants, but until the early 1970s such sales were extremely rare.

The LABOUR Party initially proposed the idea of the right of tenants to own the house they live in, in its manifesto for the 1959 General Election which it subsequently lost.

[Retrochic]

Ummmm so you reckon everyone who lives in a council house does not work?

[ummmm]

No...I don't reckon that at all.

[woofgang]

Councils' repair and maintenance bills went down and they got income.

[murraymints]

retro..please don't start nitpicking for arguments..will do yourself no favours ....

[TWR]

2nd attempt, Ret, Please don't start twisting things ( Ummmm's post) Cm, If I remember right, the era of the miners strike Thatcher wanted C/House Tenent's to own their own home, the power stations were filled to the brim with coal, police / services wages increased, the Army on standby, the fight was on with the miners & people that took the Carrot was going to loose their newly Mortgaged home, it was a plan, & the plan worked, I admire Thatcher, she was a PM with strength not like these Ball less PMs that followed, this is my opinion & I will stick to it, I will more than likely be corrected, but that's my view.

[Old_Geezer]

Votes from those who got a cut price home paid for by the ratepayer.

[cazzz1975]

Im guessing one less house for the council to have to maintain

[Baldric]

The meeting was told the **National Coal Board's pit closure programme** had "gone better this year than planned: there had been one pit closed every three weeks" and the workforce had shrunk by 10%.
**The new chairman of the board, Ian MacGregor**, now meant to go further.
"Mr MacGregor had it in mind over the three years 1983-85 that a further 75 pits would be closed... There should be no closure list, but a pit-by-pit procedure.
"The manpower at the end of that time in the industry would be down to 138,000 from its current level of 202,000."

[TWR]

Forgot to add Cm, Family's in N.Yorks, S.Yorks, N.East, N.West, Kent, S.Wales, S.Land, totally destroyed, & up until today, the rift between family members have never ever be healed.

[Cmitchell]

Thanks folks, for all your answers! : )

[Old_Geezer]

One less house until they realise they still have poorer folk to house, and have got rid of their housing stock: then they need to increase the stock, but aren't allowed to use money from the sales which since it was sold at a bargain price and so wouldn't be sufficient anyway. Still that's not central government's problem.

[Retrochic]

murraymints and TWR -I was not nitpicking for an argument, I've better things to do. (like work?) I understood from her post that Ummmm thought most people who lived in Council houses would be unable to buy them because they would have to have a job,inferring most of them didn't work. Don't jump on my back with lame threats about me ' not doing myself any favours' , just because I have the audacity to reply to a post in a manner you don't agree with.

[ummmm]

That is not what I said.

To buy a house you need a job. You have a job you pay taxes. You buy your council house then the council no longer need to maintain it...

So in reality the right to buy is only for people that have jobs. That's the banks decision, not the councils.

Obviously some people are happy to rent rather than buy regardless of their income.

And you are nitpicking, Retrochic, if someone else had posted the same you would have over looked it.