Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
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
Let's say Cardiff had 20000 before the sell off, with a demand of say 23000. Therefore the demand for new housing would be 3000.

Now if 15000 were sold off the total social housing stock would fall by 15000 leaving 5000 social houses. However as the total demand has dropped from 23000 to 8000, and because there are 5000 social houses, we still have overall demand of 3000.

Now whatever metrics you wish to apply (e.g. population growth) would apply irrespective of ownership. In other words, it doesn't matter if the population grows because any increase in demand will be equally applicable in both situations.