Old Conservatives don't understand

[JohnD]

Well that's bollucks really because if private landlords cam profit from housing, why can't councils?

Right to buy means the owner buys an asset, and maintains it.

It is worth, say, £100,000

The owner is compelled by motorbiking to sell it to a lucky person for £50,000

The owner is not able to replace it by buying a similar asset, because it will cost twice as much as he received.

As a taxpayer, you are one of the people who communally own the asset, and motorbiking thinks it is a good idea that you have been fleeced.

 

[JohnD]

it couldn’t keep up with the population growth

If you make a decision to build fewer houses than are needed, there will be a housing shortage and prices will go up. Some people will have a cripplingly high mortgage debt, some people will be homeless or forced into substandard accommodation, some people will make huge profits.

Can you guess which of these three groups bankrolls the Con party?

 

[motorbiking]

Right to buy means the owner buys an asset, and maintains it.

It is worth, say, £100,000

The owner is compelled by motorbiking to sell it to a lucky person for £50,000

The owner is not able to replace it by buying a similar asset, because it will cost twice as much as he received.

As a taxpayer, you are one of the people who communally own the asset, and motorbiking thinks it is a good idea that you have been fleeced.

Delusional nonsense from the forum troll and liar.


Even your “facts” are wrong.

Firstly, the cost to build is usually significantly less than the market value, sometimes less than half.
Secondly, right to buy has caps and those eligible will have had to qualify with points that are geared to the most needy

I’m sorry you didn’t qualify, but neither did I. I am ok with government incentives to help poorer people buy homes even though I have never qualified. I’m also happy that my taxes go to help them, taxes which I am certain dwarf your contribution.

 

[aveatry]

The financial system means that effectively they can't...

And that's probably because the private sector developers are big nasty party donors

And when labour are in they will donate to them to get what they want, the colour of the government makes no difference.

 

[JohnD]

help poorer people buy homes

the most needy

Do you seriously believe that poor people on benefits can buy homes?

Can you come up with a coherent justification for your belief that tenants in publicly-owned homes should have the right to buy them at half their value

And tenants in privately-owned homes should not?

 

[fillyboy]

MSN

Councils are compulsorily purchasing empty properties to meet a surge in the number of asylum seekers being granted leave to remain in the UK.

Council chiefs have complained they are not being given enough time to find alternative accommodation for successful asylum seekers because of the Home Office’s faster decision-making to clear huge backlogs of cases.
The policy has been highlighted by the plight of an elderly couple who were told they had to give up their home to asylum seekers because of a shortage of suitable accommodation.

Jose and Ted Saunders said they were “shocked” to be told by North Northamptonshire Council that their mid-terraced house in Rushden, near Wellingborough, was deemed to be empty or derelict, enabling the authority to force them to sell it.

The letter said the council was seeing a “considerable increase” in positive immigration decisions being made in favour of asylum seekers, mainly single men, and the authority was “struggling” to source suitable accommodation for them.

It added: “The ideal long-term solution would be to provide accommodation by using empty properties which would benefit owners and the project.” It said the council could make a compulsory purchase order on the property.

 

[motorbiking]

Do you seriously believe that poor people on benefits can buy homes?

Can you come up with a coherent justification for your belief that tenants in publicly-owned homes should have the right to buy them at half their value

And tenants in privately-owned homes should not?

Perhaps you could explain how a person could buy a council house worth £300,000 for £150,000? You don’t appear to even understand the rules

 

[JohnD]

Jose and Ted Saunders said they were “shocked” to be told by North Northamptonshire Council that their mid-terraced house in Rushden, near Wellingborough, was deemed to be empty or derelict, enabling the authority to force them to sell it.

Filly carefully omits an important fact

"Three days after receiving the letter, the Saunders got an apology, saying council staff had mistakenly earmarked the house for possible compulsory purchase."

 

[JohnD]

Clearly you can't.

Do you seriously believe that poor people on benefits can buy homes?

Can you come up with a coherent justification for your belief that tenants in publicly-owned homes should have the right to buy them at half their value

And tenants in privately-owned homes should not?

 

[fillyboy]

Filly carefully omits an important fact

"Three days after receiving the letter, the Saunders got an apology, saying council staff had mistakenly earmarked the house for possible compulsory purchase."

After they were contacted by the press?

 

[motorbiking]

Clearly you can't.

This is of course entirely your opinion based on fictional rules, that you made up.

 

[JohnD]

Filly's careful omission of facts from his partial quotation.

"“Since NNC formed in 2021, no properties have been purchased by CPO. This is a mechanism of last resort to bring problematic, long-term empty properties back into use.

“Unfortunately, in this case, records held by NNC were outdated, and the letter was incorrectly sent to a property which was occupied. For this, I am very sorry for causing any undue distress and worry.”

 

[Odds]

After they were contacted by the press?

The couple responded by calling the council and asking what was going on.

They received an apology three days later, saying staff mistook the property for possible compulsory purchase.

GBnews.com

 

[JohnD]

Filly loves to spread false stories.

 

[aveatry]

Wait a mo on here the lefties are blaming the conservatives for the problems because of right to buy that Thachter started but after that Labour were in power for 13 years - did they put an end to it ?