20 odd years of paying rent in private rented housing means you have just bought some ones house for them in effect. That house is no more available to the next generation than a council house if at all and at massively inflated cost I would wager.

I should imagine a fair to high amount of council/social tenants wouldn't be able to get a mortgage let alone a deposit. Not trying to stereotype mind.

I don't care if a housing assosciation puts a block floor in a flat why not/ Fridges? cookers? even better if the people who live there need them. They are not allowed to run at a massive loss anyway are they so it must be do able. It is most definitely not the norm and certainly not in council houses.