Shocked by a friend RE: Council Housing
Discussion
A friend of mine who is a single mother has been happily renting for a while.
Today she turned to me and told me she was moving back to her parents so she could get back on the council house register, so then she would be able to have her own home.
She isn't well off, but manages to afford her rent and bills and look after her daughter.
Is it the case that people like this are eligible for a council house?
Does that mean she will be able to buy it as well at a later date at a discount?
Today she turned to me and told me she was moving back to her parents so she could get back on the council house register, so then she would be able to have her own home.
She isn't well off, but manages to afford her rent and bills and look after her daughter.
Is it the case that people like this are eligible for a council house?
Does that mean she will be able to buy it as well at a later date at a discount?
elster said:
so then she would be able to have her own home.
But it's not her 'own' home, it council stock.Social Housing should be exactly that, for those that would otherwise not be able to be sufficiently catered for. However in the real world that is not the case and she is playing the system, IMO I'd rather she got it than some others I could think of. Not the biggest crime in he book.
sday12 said:
elster said:
so then she would be able to have her own home.
But it's not her 'own' home, it council stock.I am afraid that it is not uncommon for people to do this, or even for a couple to "rent/live" in two different homes so that their benefits are higher (I am sorry I do not know how this works but I have been told by a few people that it is the case).
Jasandjules said:
sday12 said:
elster said:
so then she would be able to have her own home.
But it's not her 'own' home, it council stock.I am afraid that it is not uncommon for people to do this, or even for a couple to "rent/live" in two different homes so that their benefits are higher (I am sorry I do not know how this works but I have been told by a few people that it is the case).
I think buying your own council house for chump change was something Maggie fronted, in an effort to make poor bums feel like aristocrats, and thus vote conservative.
k would they give her a council house?She might be in for a long wait. I posted a thread here not long ago about some scumbag who complained the council house she'd been given was in a poor state because it wasn't carpeted, she'd been waiting ten years for it.
I believe after they've lived in it for three years they can buy it at about 30% it's value, they can't sell it for another 2-3 years after that though.
ETA: I don't see what moving back to her parents will do, surely when she completes an income / expenditure form she'll have much more disposable income now she isn't paying rent therefore making her better off and less likely to get on the list. And no, she can't say her parents are charging her £800 per month.
I believe after they've lived in it for three years they can buy it at about 30% it's value, they can't sell it for another 2-3 years after that though.
ETA: I don't see what moving back to her parents will do, surely when she completes an income / expenditure form she'll have much more disposable income now she isn't paying rent therefore making her better off and less likely to get on the list. And no, she can't say her parents are charging her £800 per month.
Edited by Oakey on Friday 2nd April 21:06
Buy at 30% of value after three years? Nonsense. After five years a tenant can apply to buy their house: their discount increases in line with the length of their tenancy. There is also a discount cap of about £30,000 (in the midlands - less further North and more further South). This used to be academic, but Id expect it to be a factor in the majority of sales now.
GC8 said:
Buy at 30% of value after three years? Nonsense. After five years a tenant can apply to buy their house: their discount increases in line with the length of their tenancy. There is also a discount cap of about £30,000 (in the midlands - less further North and more further South). This used to be academic, but Id expect it to be a factor in the majority of sales now.
I know someone who paid £16k for a flat valued at £45k in 2003. That's where I got the figure of about 30% fromEdited by Oakey on Saturday 3rd April 10:33
Why shouldn't she I guess? Everybody else is at it. I don't know about the OP's friend's situation of course, but the best way to help the planet is to stop bloody reproducing, or at least slow it down a bit. Not charge people 119.9p per litre of unleaded which they only want to use to get to work so they can pay their bills and tax like a good citizen. Instead we reward young people, who have decided they are above working and choose parenthood as a career, with a free house and all expenses paid by you the taxpayer. Once the first one is old enough to look after itself people might start to look at this young mum and suggest she might be able to do some part time work, so she'll have another one, and another one, and before you know it she's a grandmother and the cycle begins all over again. Meanwhile your petrol bills rise, your NI contributions rise, your council tax payments rise, blah blah f**king blah, I'm wasting my time typing this, banging my head against the wall, ranting like Richard Littlejohn or that bloke who used to edit the Sun or any number of miserable old men in any number of miserable old pubs in any number of miserable, grey, sh*t, english towns so f**k it, I give up thinking about it, lets talk about something else, I reckon Rosberg to win tomorrow, how about you?
RS404 said:
Why shouldn't she I guess? Everybody else is at it. I don't know about the OP's friend's situation of course, but the best way to help the planet is to stop bloody reproducing, or at least slow it down a bit. Not charge people 119.9p per litre of unleaded which they only want to use to get to work so they can pay their bills and tax like a good citizen. Instead we reward young people, who have decided they are above working and choose parenthood as a career, with a free house and all expenses paid by you the taxpayer. Once the first one is old enough to look after itself people might start to look at this young mum and suggest she might be able to do some part time work, so she'll have another one, and another one, and before you know it she's a grandmother and the cycle begins all over again. Meanwhile your petrol bills rise, your NI contributions rise, your council tax payments rise, blah blah f**king blah, I'm wasting my time typing this, banging my head against the wall, ranting like Richard Littlejohn or that bloke who used to edit the Sun or any number of miserable old men in any number of miserable old pubs in any number of miserable, grey, sh*t, english towns so f**k it, I give up thinking about it, lets talk about something else, I reckon Rosberg to win tomorrow, how about you?
Work Houses.We need Work Houses.
Oakey said:
GC8 said:
Buy at 30% of value after three years? Nonsense. After five years a tenant can apply to buy their house: their discount increases in line with the length of their tenancy. There is also a discount cap of about £30,000 (in the midlands - less further North and more further South). This used to be academic, but Id expect it to be a factor in the majority of sales now.
I know someone who paid £16k for a flat valued at £45k in 2003. That's where I got the figure of about 30% from
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