People in Council houses should be reassessed…

[AlwaysAnnoyed]

I want to tread carefully. But then again I’m pissed off.

I live in a 3 bed house with a mortgage. On our estate there is a selection of Council houses. I have no issue with people having Council homes, people fall on hard times and DESERVE support.

however what really grinds my gears, is on our estate we have one Council house which have 2 brand new Audi’s. Top of the range. Just got back off holiday to Florida. Weekends away. they pay £350 a month to the council for this 4 bed property. (They are very loud about telling everyone this)

it really really winds me up. We have a COST of living crisis, people are going to be struggling to pay bills but yet there are people who are in these Council houses on holidays and brand new cars.

it doesn’t seem fair. Surely Council houses need to be regularly means tested… How can this happen? Able to afford 2 brand new cars but cannot afford to pay their own rent/mortgage!

or am I just being a moany witch!

I was in a private 2 bedroom once with my little girl when she was a baby. The place was damp and cold. Cold air would literally come out of our mouths like it would when your outside and that was with the heaters on which I coukdnt even afford because they was storage heaters and draining my leccy. The place wouldnt heat up because it was all open plan and had shit windows. Landlady wasnt willing for repairs or even to pay out for a proper plumber to do the boiler. Like you mentioned she just got a mate to do it and a few days later my boiler exploded and water was running threw every single place that it could throw out the house. On my own single mum and worried and electrics blowing with a 1 year old in the arms was not nice. I moved out there and then of course with my mum. I would never trust a private landlord again! At least I know with council stuff like that it is really monitored properly. So yea I dont want another dodgy Dave! I actually think his name was Dave 😂👍

I get where you are coming from OP. My DH's grandparents lived in a council house and apparently had loads of foreign holidays before they were really a thing, so must have had quite a lot of disposable income (and this was also before council houses were so hard to come by, so I see why it would be annoying now). DH's other grandparents owned their home but had no other money.

The other side of that situation is the grandparents who bought their home have equity to leave their DC.

I was brought up in a mixed area of social and private housing, my parents bought the house when they married, I was sometimes jealous of the presents and trips to butlins some families had, though most families were poor.

My DM was very proud she had a house and savings to leave for us.
It swings in roundabouts.

That was my parents priority although they had very little for the first 25 years, they not rent or mortgage aged 50.

DP grew up in a council home, it was filled to the brim at Christmas, we had very different experiences and ideas on how many presents is enough.