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Originally Posted by Kizzy

Do you not think? ah well I may be mistaken it seemed the tone had changed and it was distinctly negative towards social housing tenants.
I know in some areas this was the case and during the advent of social housing there were those who felt a council house was tantamount to a state handout too, had they been given the foresight to see 40yrs down the line that the sell of would occur and would benefit from being a social housing tenant they may have swallowed their pride?
There are also huge sections of council housing that are prefabricated jerry built concrete boxes, Livett-Cartright homes for instance, they're steel framed structures built in 1953 to last 25yrs... still here and being sold with the rest of the stock as perfectly habitable dwellings.
Maybe it isn't fair, but they want these 'houses' off they're hands asap before they all collapse preferably. The fact that it's creating an 'us and them' divide also is perhaps just a happy accident.

Both my sisters live in housing association houses, one lives in a victorian terrace property, the other in an ex local authority house, they have both claimed benefits for most of their adult lives.

The victorian property would normally go for around £100,000, so is it right she gets it for £30,000?

Absolutely not!

We need these houses to be kept as social housing as not enough houses are being built.

And i live in an ex local authority house (we did not buy it off the council!) and it's a good solid strong house and not on the verge of collapse