RIGHT TO BUY - A tale.

Right to Buy

Not abolishing “Right to Buy” is one of the crimes of our MPs. Granted for the middle class, it seems like a good idea, why not give away billions of pounds just on the basis that someone was lucky enough to have been allocated a council house when they needed it, why not promote the capitalist ethic.

The following story is true; if you see nothing wrong with the attitude expressed you are probably not alone.

I was confronted at a conference by an ex-policeman (not that I think his profession relevant) who wanted to complain about Kirklees. His complaint was that his aged parents, who lived in Hightown, had been refused Housing Benefit.

They had lived in and brought up a family in a Council House provided by Spenborough Council, their son (the Ex-policeman) thought it was nonsense them paying rent so he encouraged them, and financed them to use Right to Buy, especially as they were entitled to the maximum discount, worth over £40,000 to them.

Obviously the son used his own money to fund the purchase so it was only right that he should charge a rent, equivalent to the Council rent. It wasn’t right though that his parents had to pay so he encouraged them to apply for Housing Benefit.

This was his complaint; nasty, mean Kirklees had refused to pay it. He was considering evicting them so they would qualify for a council bungalow, which was much better suited to their current needs.  

Right to Buy - State theft.

STATE THEFT 

Council Houses were built and paid for by local people. When Thatcher wanted to give a bribe to families just on the basis that they had been lucky to be allocated a house by their council, she should have paid for central government money, instead she stole it from local councils.

We now have a situation where these houses are now owned by private landlords (40%) and the State, through Housing Benefit is paying much more that it does for council owned houses it has not yet stolen.

The scheme is morally wrong, economically wrong and Socially wrong.

The Labour Party Nationally is compliant with this corrupt policy by refusing to address it.


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HOUSING HAND OUT TO THE RICH

HOUSING HAND OUT TO THE RICH

It is no surprise that the Conservatives choose to hand out money to the rich, but the fact that they do it pretending to be helping to solve the crisis that is in part created by the right to buy. The BBC article reproduced below show it helps those who don’t need it, whilst those without the high wages are stuck with bedroom tax.

About 4,000 households in England earning more than £100,000 annually are in the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme.

Official figures to December 2016 show more than 20,000 households who are not first-time buyers have been helped.

The initiative, which started in April 2013, aims to make buying a home more affordable.

But research conducted for the government found that just over half of those who signed up to it said they could have afforded to buy without access to the scheme.

Help to Buy was launched by then Chancellor George Osborne to attempt to encourage more housebuilding.

The government offers a 20% equity loan to buyers of newly-built properties and 40% in London, on properties worth up to £600,000.

The buyers have to put down a 5% deposit and, when the property is sold, the government reclaims its loan.

This means if the value of the home goes up, the government will make a profit.

Similar schemes were set up and have now ended in Scotland and Wales.

 

Labour's shadow housing secretary John Healey said: "While the number of younger people who own a first home is in freefall, the number of government-backed affordable homes to buy has fallen by two-thirds since 2010 and badly targeted schemes like Help to Buy are not focused on those who most need a hand .

"Labour would change that and make helping first-time buyers on ordinary incomes the priority for Help to Buy."

Gavin Barwell, the housing and planning minister, said: "We're committed to helping more people find a home of their own with the support of a range of low-cost home ownership products.

"Our Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme continues to make home ownership a reality for thousands of people, especially first-time buyers right across the country."

The government said it had committed £8.6 billion for the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme to allow it to run in England until 2021.

 

The Right to Steal

The right to steal is working, at the expense of those who cant afford a home of their own.


 HOUSING

One in 10 right to buy sales replaced
Local authorities in England have replaced only one in 10 of the homes sold through right to buy since discounts were increased in 2012. Government figures show there have been 49,573 sales since the scheme was relaunched, while 4,594 have been started on site or acquired by councils. According to the latest data by the Department for Communities and Local Government, an estimated 3,250 properties were bought by tenants in the last three months of 2015, up from the 2,941 sold during the previous quarter, but slightly lower than the 3,288 sold in the same period of the previous year. During the same three-month period, 396 homes were started on site or acquired. Meanwhile, Terrie Alafat, head of the Chartered Institute of Housing, has predicted that by 2020, 370,000 council and housing association homes could be lost in England. She told the BBC that the government's Housing Bill was too focused on home ownership, and would do little to address the lack of social housing for rent.

Yet another pure unashamed attack on the poor by this Government.