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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Yup, being forced to sell off council houses at a discount is costing the taxpayer a fortune.
Many of these ex council houses are now being let out in the private rented sector, at a much higher cost to the Housing Benefit bill.
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Really??? and your proof of this comes from where?
We brought our council house (as I no doubt a few members here did too) There are certain stipulations from the motgage provider & the council, and moving out and renting the property aint allowed, not for the first 5 years at least AFAIK.
They are not being forced to sell off housing stock, there are many criteria that needs to be met before the council will entertain the thought of right to buy.
Facts, if you dont have them (& not hearsay from red tops) you cant really comment.
FYI our house was valued at 71k, we got 9.5% off of the value as discount & still had to stump up 20% deposit.
Every property on our little bit of Mansfield is privately owned, we were the last ones to buy (out of the 16 properties) & not one is let out.