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Originally Posted by Kizzy

How on earth would he get a mortgage then if he'd never worked?
If you work and have a lifetime tenancy, agree to take over the responsibility for the maintenance of the house then maybe this is the reason for the discount? It's on a sliding scale therefore if you haven't been a tenant that long the discount would be relative.
Again social housing isn't and never was for the poor and needy it's for everyone, not everyone wishes to buy and affordable rents were and are preferable to some.

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.