In thinking if you earn over £100,000 a year, you should not be allowed to stay in council house accomodation?

[Hammy02]

RMT union boss Bob Crow earns this and yet still lives in a council house. Surely he is using a property that should be housing someone that actually cannot afford to privately rent and needs subsidised property?

No colleger - shame on the past 30yrs Governments for allowing Britain's housing situation to become so bloody dire.

There are not enough council houses to go round so greedy £30k+ should get out and do the decent thing. We all have collective responsibility, not just the government.

What do you reckon you could buy on £30K? Even up here you'd struggle. In fact, you couldn't buy an ex council house for that much.

Most people would privately rent surely then?

I wouldn't give up a council house with a rent of £400 pm (which is what I paid for a 2 bed HA maisonette) in order to rent privately, with bugger all secuirty of tenure, at £900 pm (which is what rents are here).

And I would advise others not to, either.

Why would you rent privately and pay a ridiculous amount of rent for a shit hole that you could be turfed out of at any time?

Oh, because that's what the Government plan on turning council housing into. It all adds up now.

So to block homes for those who need it and have no choice of private renting when someone does have a choice of private rentring is fair is it?

I know plently of people on less than 30k who privately rent. Why should they do that then?

Of course it's not fair, but don't blame the family working hard, trying to make ends meet and provide for their family.

You might like to think it's those people who are denying those with nothing a decent home but really, think about it, you need to look to the Government.

You know, they aren't sat their in the (tax payer funded) luxury pads doing this for nowt, we're paying them, it's our money, spend on building some bloody decent housing, not writing off billions in tax bills for Vodafone and the like.

Or how about we save some of those billions of our money which is currently paid to BTL in the way of housing benefit, redirect that to the build some public housing.

The fact is, government isn't interested in providing anything for the public, be it housing, equality, jobs, healthcare. At every opportunity they are trying to get out of any commitment to do so. What exactly are they doing for our money I wonder?

sat there in their

There is no quick solution but anyone blocking a home (who has a choice to no longer be there) for someone who in desperate need, has to take personal responsibilty.

They can't pass the buck on this one.

wubbly you have made excellent points...

Something drastic needs to be done with regard for stability for private tenants, and something has to be done to create more affordable homes.

It is a mess:(