Keeping a 3 bedroom council house when your children have grown up

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Just pondering - what are everyone’s opinions on a single parent raising their children in a council house/housing association house and staying there once their children have moved out? Should they downsize into a one bed flat/smaller property or is it their right to remain in their home/neighbourhood?

Added extra - they have looked after the property well, have landscaped the garden, installed a new kitchen and generally added value to the property.

Such as?

I find your comments ridiculous.
I was highlighting the snobbery, agreeing with you. And yet here you are.

I live in a cheap area and still can't afford to buy.

Living in a council house is not sponging off the state.

You are just one accident/illness away from "sponging" yourself.

We don’t have the highest taxes in 40 years.
Its 70

Listen darling, start saving a deposit and move on.

I'd ignore that poster. Someone bored and on a wind up.

Ever since the lefties got in taxes have shot up.

You're calling people who live in council housing spongers? I actually bought my last council flat and it was sold from under me, and I was rehoused because I was homeless - see if you want to start running around calling people names get your facts right.

I think you should, personally. Mars is nice this time of year.

I'm not buying property. Hope that helps.

They probably live under a bridge.

Calling people love and darling to boot - urgh. Vomit inducing

It seems to be controversial but I do think people should downsize when they can to give another family that actually needs that size property the same space they had when they needed it. It’s a huge issue where we are, we have young families crammed into 1 bedroom flats while over the road there is 1 person or 1 couple living in a 3 bedroom house they got when they had young children living at home.

If people who no longer need 3 bedrooms downsized and opened those homes back up to families then it would be much easier for more families to be suitably housed.

Don’t be so rude.

Hello Pot. Have you met Kettle?

Only as rude as you've been to others

Why is it that people in council housing who are paying their rent are looked down on yet those is private rentals that are having rent paid by LHA aren't

Like post above saying all council housing should be at market rent ( ie to make profit) All that would achieve us more people needing help to pay the rent surely

It seems ok to have " taxayers money" making profits for private landlords strangely enough

That’s what it is for, homeless people.

And taxes will need to go up further to make up for 14 years of austerity and whatever we want to call 2020
But it does make me laugh those shouting loudest about increased taxes tend to be the business owners that haven’t paid back their Bounce Back Loan’s
Oh, the irony

That is so immature.

Then why are you not in one then. Must be miserable under a bridge.

You must be a Labour mole.