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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Another way of looking at it is pretty much all council housing was built thirty, forty, fifty plus years ago, any subsidy that was spent by government building them has been repaid many times over and what marty could well be doing is giving the council pure profit each month. Council housing is a national asset that pays hundreds of millions into the system each year and how do we treat it, as something to be given away for peanuts under right to buy schemes and I really wouldn't compare the market if i were you, it's been manipulated to such a degree the economic rules of market forces and supply and demand no longer apply.
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Not the point though is it?
The point is that Marty is living in a council property enjoying a lower than market rate of rent, when he can well afford to pay a market private rent, or mortgage.
Whereas some one who is less well off has to pay the full market rate, or if they are on benefits, the tax payer pays their full market rent.
The most needy should be in council houses.