| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Why are Hounslow Homes showing a house that has not been on Locator yet??? | |
| Posted by: | Colin Ellar | |
| Date/Time: | 29/03/10 18:50:00 |
| Dear Dawn, All the monies from right to buy sales, for the most part was spent year by year on capital schemes. While Labour was in power in Hounslow I know some of the money was spent, for example, on improving the remaining council housing stock and some was spent on re-surfacing local roads in the worst condition. As other people have said, part of Thatcher's legacy is that Councils were expressly forbidden to spend any receipts from council house sales on new build housing. I think this was the largest example of Gerrymandering in British history. This in part has helped create the lack of affordable housing that impacts more and more on our communities. I suppose why this law was not challenged was because at the time it was very popular and helped Thatcher get re-elected. A lot of poor people bought houses for next to nothing and many sold them on at a profit. That is why many ex council estates are now full of "right to buy" properties that have private tenants that change every 6 months. It has fallen to the next generation to realise that there is insufficient affordable housing and what little there is, is rationed. |