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Originally Posted by Escapee

The social housing my partner has in Cardiff costs approx £400 a month, and that's after healthy rent increases in the past few years. I believe it was a little over £300 a month when she moved in. The last time I checked which was around 6 months ago, the rent for a similar property in her area with a private landlord was between £900 and £1100 a month.

She's not grumbling much about rent increases because she knows she's been lucky to have had a massive subsidy for the 9 years that she has lived there.

the worrying thing to me is that councils are not handling public assets correctly offering massively subsidised rents is not getting the tax payer a fair return on their assets in fact revenues could be at least 25% higher and in these austere times we need every penny of revenue to balance the books we are all in this together

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Originally Posted by martyh

Wow you seem determined to twist everything I say to suit your viewpoint .Council houses do not generally come furnished , decorated or carpeted ,they are very basic ,it's up to the tenants to make them nice when this happens you end up with a nice estate like mine ,of course you wouldn't accept this because you think that inhabitants of such houses are **** bag scroungers living off the nanny state .You gave away your prejudice in your first post and have continued to reinforce that attitude in every post you write

yes its all my fault again you make things up and i'm to blame- i have not called any one a **** bag or a scrounger that's your interpretation of council estate residents not mine .