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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
Of course, the other option would be to buy up the delapidated properties and renovate them but for some infathomable reason there is resistance to get back into social housing, the reason stated that it would cost too much and would provide unfair competition for existing landlords.
Several thousand private landlords manage to turn a profit every day but a council can't do this?
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Unfair competition for private landlords?.. and so here we go again.
We had the same policy under the Tories in the 80's.. the obsession with regenorating mashed up housing by the private sector simply because of the idealogoly that the private sector can re-develop housing better than councils, the result is high price rents, bad back up on repairs, and at the end insecurity of the tennent.. and after all that the properties get off loaded to some housing association.
It's about time this country started to build houses for people and stop relying on the old stock.