[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Stop It

So are you saying that I and many others should subsidise those lucky enough to live in a council house, paying below market rates despite earning enough to pay them?

I live in private rented housing, and have done for years. I do not earn a huge wage, and frankly find it a bit much for people to want to literally take from others in similar situations just based on who owns the house they rent from.

Everybody would love to have a little bit extra to save for a house, but that should not be a subsidy from taxpayers for some, while others have to not only pay for them, but face being unable to save themselves because of the disparity in rents.

Social housing should be provided for people in need, and assistance with rents to those whose standards of living would be too low otherwise, not to fund a deposit or enhance peoples lifestyles beyond that which the average working family can achieve in the private sector.

Also, name calling isn't on, argue the ideas, not the person as your attitude can easily be seen as a classic case of rent seeking.

How are you subsidising his or anyone else paying their full rent in social housing?