Monday, Jul 19, 2010
As DBC Reed has pointed out many times...
Wishaw Press: Tenants feel 'trapped by right-to-buy'
"Many former council tenants who bought their homes through right-to-buy legislation feel trapped, new research has found. The measure was brought in by the Tory Government of Margaret Thatcher 30 years ago but has failed to mobilise the workforce as expected, according to the research by St Andrews University. Dr Maarten van Ham of the Centre for Housing Research, an expert in neighbourhoods and housing, said the right-to-buy has had a limited effect on homeowners."
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1. montesquieu said...
you'd feel trapped too if you bought a cooncil hoose in Wishae ...
2. greenmind said...
Not if you flogged it in 2007.
3. Sandi45 said...
I don't know where is Wishaw. Is this article researched on an local issue or is it researched nationwide?
4. enuii said...
How does owning a house 'mobilise the workforce', you have got to sell the joffing thing and then pay a commission or extra monthly interest to all and sundry plus the glubberment if it involves stamp tax when you buy the next one!
RC: 'for movements' - how psychic is that!
5. a saver said...
Am I missing something? How could you not do well buying a house with a real 50% discount?
People who bought council houses in St Andrews are totally minted, many have sold and moved elsewhere. My mum lives there and she is surrounded by BTLs, mostly let to students who have noisy parties, never cut the grass and have washing hanging up in all the windows.
6. uncle tom said...
For brevity and lack of explanation, this article takes somes beating..
..why, pray, should those who exercised the right to buy feel any more trapped than anyone else?
7. it_is_going_with_a_bang said...
Sorry but I know many people who bought their houses and NOT one has complained they got a bad deal.
The huge discounts offered? Where else do you get that?
So if you don't buy are you not still "more stuck" in a council house? from my experience it is those that don't buy their council house that get stuck in them as a general rule.
Having said that I don't know where this place is! Maybe it is a case of nobody in their right mind would buy a place there....