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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
It's already been scrapped in Scotland and tbh I sort of support scrapping it. The village I live in is a rather "well off" one and has several streets with ex-council housing and basically ZERO actual council housing. And I'd say it's only maybe 25% right-to-buy families living in these houses... The vast majority have been bought to rent out privately. So basically people paying £600 a month to a private landlord to rent an ex council house that that landlord bought on the cheap. The system has sadly been horribly abused. If right to buy is to be allowed, in my opinion it nerds to be with the condition that the buyer does NOT intend to sell or rent out the property, and plans to live there long term, with fines for anyone abusing the system.
I agree that there's a major problem with young families being unable to buy for the first time, but there's other things that could be done to help young first time buyers, e.g help with deposits and government-backed low interest mortgages for first timers.
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I believe there are certain restrictions for those buying their Council house such as not being able to sell it for a certain period of time. But once that time is up you can't stop home owners from selling their own property.
I would agree perhaps that there should perhaps be a stipulation that they cannot lease the property for a long period of time ie 15-20 years. If they do they should have to pay back the discount they received when buying the house. I imagine that would have a significant effect on the problem.
And as I mentioned earlier if there is enough money to pay for old uni debts there is enough for new Council houses. Priorities. The only reason past debts have been included is to prevent screams of unfairness and discrimination from previous students who still owe money or those that have paid their debts but want to be recompensed.