The same people making the assumption that council tenants are all jobless are probably the ones who moan about Maggie Thatcher flogging of the nations housing stocks....
Or buy to let purchasers pushing up prices for first time buyers...
My parents have spent most of their working lives in a council house, both working, both paying rent, both paying tax....whats the difference from the council being their landlord to having some private individual being the landlord?
Council house does NOT equal out of work!!