Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
That's not correct, is it? You're not taking the flow of demand for social housing into consideration or taking into account new applicants for social housing.

Each year, people that live in social housing will end up not needing to. Each year, people that don't live in social housing will end up needing to.

Take the amount of people no longer needing social housing to be the same as the number of people suddenly requiring social housing. If the number of council/housing association properties remains the same, then the people who no longer need social housing (through deaths, moving to better areas etc) end up having their properties taken over by those who need them.

Suppose you sell off, say, 1000 homes and don't replace them. That means there's 1000 homes less for those who suddenly need to apply to live in social housing.
Again you are wasting your time with feedback

Bristol city council had nearly 50000 council homes before Thatcher came in , after the right to buy , the houses on the nice estates were sold , dramatically reducing the city's social housing stock , malpass talks about it in great length in his book on the subject

Let's take Cardiff .......the council has say 20000 council homes , 15000 are sold

You still have many people on the housing waiting list due to increasing population etc

But now the council only has 5000 houses left to cope with the demand and those houses that are left are the poorer quality ones , in the less desirable areas , that nobody wanted to buy

Hence stock of social rented housing has been reduced and that which is left is of poor quality , meaning people in housing need are all thrown together , creating ghettoes of poverty in-between the nicer council housing , which was often sold for a nice little earner during the property boom

One landlord in London has about 300 ex council houses that he has bought and now rents them out for profit , getting rent from those unable to live anywhere else

Fecking disgrace