One Million Council Houses per year.

[truman]

A greater supply of social rented property has little effect on private house prices .

 

Genuine question..have you figures to show this in the UK?

[alchemist]

 

For too long the public sector has not built, there has been a lack of housing for ordinary people, and over the years housing has become a financial tool that impoverishes many to enrich just a few. This has to change, councils must be allowed to build again. The only time housing need has been met is when the public sector builds.

 

 

Whats the point when a stupid right to buy policy means that as soon as a council house is built it is sold of to a private buyer. If more house are needed then private builders should build them not council tax payers. If the council should build them then the right to buy policy should be killed.

[unbeliever]

Whats the point when a stupid right to buy policy means that as soon as a council house is built it is sold of to a private buyer. If more house are needed then private builders should build them not council tax payers. If the council should build them then the right to buy policy should be killed.

 

The right to buy policy requires that a new council house is built for every one sold.

[apelike]

Genuine question..have you figures to show this in the UK?

 

No but I have not read any economic details of it lowering house prices either. Because very little social housing has recently been built when it was in its peak private house prices did not change much. Renting should not have an effect on private sales as many people still want to rent and plenty still want to buy and own a home?

 

Private sales still outstrip renting by a great deal.

 

From the 2011 census

"Of the 23.4 million homes (or households) in England and Wales on census day in March 2011, 15 million (64 per cent) were owner occupied and 8.3 million (36 per cent) were rented."

 

The recent mess that we are in regarding migrants also puts pressure on housing as they will not be able to buy and will need rented accommodation.

 

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The right to buy policy requires that a new council house is built for every one sold.

 

That may be what was intended but that is either not being applied or only applies since the council took over housing accounts in the past few years.

[unbeliever]

No but I have not read any economic details of it lowering house prices either. Because very little social housing has recently been built when it was in its peak private house prices did not change much. Renting should not have an effect on private sales as many people still want to rent and plenty still want to buy and own a home?

 

Private sales still outstrip renting by a great deal.

 

From the 2011 census

"Of the 23.4 million homes (or households) in England and Wales on census day in March 2011, 15 million (64 per cent) were owner occupied and 8.3 million (36 per cent) were rented."

 

The recent mess that we are in regarding migrants also puts pressure on housing as they will not be able to buy and will need rented accommodation.

 

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That may be what was intended but that is either not being applied or only applies since the council took over housing accounts in the past few years.

 

It applies to the new right to buy scheme introduced by the current government.

[apelike]

It applies to the new right to buy scheme introduced by the current government.

 

I think that states the the new receipts could be used to fund new affordable housing not that it must be.

[unbeliever]

I think that states the the new receipts could be used to fund new affordable housing not that it must be.

 

Nope. It's a requirement.

[apelike]

Nope. It's a requirement.

 

There seems to be some confusion.

 

One legislative document by the government states that only 30% of receipts can be used towards new homes after taking away costs etc and the rest must come from capital receipts. Another one states that its a one-for-one replacement, and the latest states;

 

"The one-for-one replacement policy applies to additional local authority sales that is, sales above the level forecast before the changes were made that have taken place since the reinvigoration of the right to buy in April 2012." Since the reinvigoration, local authorities have sold 10,953 homes, approximately 6,400 of which are additional. Since April 2012, 1,662 dwellings have been started on site or acquired."

 

It also goes on to say.. "If a council were to fail to spend the receipts within three years, it would be required to return the unspent money to government with interest."

 

So I'm still confused on the matter..

[TJC1]

The op still hasn't answered why we need 1 million houses per year...hit and run

[El Cid]

The right to buy policy requires that a new council house is built for every one sold.

 

It does not apply to houses sold pre-2015, and I believe it is housing association houses, not council houses.

 

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And the Conservative promise that you can buy your housing association house comes with lots of strings, so its really a broken promise. If you are buying your housing association house, it needs to be built after 1997, and then not all of them, it depends where the money to build them came from.