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Originally Posted by rubymoo
There are ways and means, last thing i heard was his step son in law was looking into buying it.
When i was homeless at age 17, i applied for social housing, i was told there was a 2 year waiting list, that was in the early 1990's, so i got a job, lived in a private damp flat with no heating, then moved to a shared house, then got a better job, saved up a deposit to put on a house.
The problem is that people can't do this now because house prices are so high, there's an affordable housing shortage and selling social housing stock will only create, more homelessness.
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That would be impossible, there is no way that anyone other than the tenant can purchase a council property, if your father was too old or insolvent there would be no way of securing a mortgage in his name.
It's sad that you had that experience so young and I don't think you were advised very well by the sound of it.
I agree the housing stock should never have been sold, it is young people as you were that suffer, people on benefits who cannot get a mortgage to buy and those who do work but on 0hr contracts with no fixed monthly income, no mortgage company can lend against those.
So in reality it is those who managed to live either at home or in private rented property whilst they were on the housing list, worked and bought their houses from the council who benefited. Nobody living free or languishing on welfare would ever be in a position to purchase any property.