If she wants ro have a home for life she should have bought 1
While yr granny is busy dusting her spare bedrooms , other people are sleeping 3 or 4 to one bedroom
Yr granny should be grateful the state has kept a roof over her head all these years ,and look forward to a new life in a bungalow …
And let another family grow up and prosper in that lovely collectively owned house
To be honest, I also agree people should be rehoused depending on circumstances. You wouldn’t expect to spend 50 years in private accommodation. If I was on my own, I’d be happy with a 1 bedroom place, but it’s not ideal to have 2 children in 1 bedroom when they’re different sexes. The government missed an open goal with the bedroom tax, they hit working people who could afford it, and left the scroungers alone, leaving no incentive for anyone to move into smaller property
boredwivdrivin:
She should not be kicked out .
She needs to be reassessed to ensure the accommadation still meets her housing needs .If she is over accommadated then she should be moved to something suitable .
Like a 1 bedroom flat
So kick her out then.
Putting a fancy explanation and using buzz words doesn’t change the fact that she would be forcibly evicted. ie kicked out.
boredwivdrivin:
If she wants ro have a home for life she should have bought 1
While yr granny is busy dusting her spare bedrooms , other people are sleeping 3 or 4 to one bedroomYr granny should be grateful the state has kept a roof over her head all these years ,and look forward to a new life in a bungalow …
And let another family grow up and prosper in that lovely collectively owned house
I cant discuss this with you as I will break my own rules, if people are sleeping 3/4 to a room that is no fault of hers or anyone elses who has worked and paid for housing.
lets give it to some nice family of 4 kids to 5 dads so they can run it to wreck and ruin, or even better some nice foreign family who have not worked at all / paid zero into the system and will happily live on state handouts for ever.
I really despair at some people on here not everyone wants to buy their home, and to a whole generation as has previously been mentioned if you were working class you rented a council house, I cant do it on this thread anymore there are too many divvys on this site people who really annoy me and get me to rise to no doubt the funny bait that they leave/spout.
I waited 7 years for my house I have a secure tenancy and I don’t care what any others think I am happy and staying in it.
war1974:
I really despair at some people on here not everyone wants to buy their home, and to a whole generation as has previously been mentioned if you were working class you rented a council house
I waited 7 years for my house I have a secure tenancy and I don’t care what any others think I am happy and staying in it.
It’s a generational thing I reckon. I can also remember when the majority of the working class lived in council homes pre 80s. I also think some on here are mixing up a council home rented by a working family, with houses that are let out at different times and periods, to every type of dosser and scratter that live their lives in ■■■■ and squalor, as seen on most TV docs about people on a life of benefits.
There is nothing worse than a working class type who looks down on his own class, and thinks he is middle class because he is paying for a house over 25/30 years. 
I also share your despair at some of the arrogance ignorance and sheer snobbery displayed on this thread by one or two of my fellow working class drivers.
14 pages of divide and conquer! The Govt would only have to read this thread to enable them to sit back and say “our work here is done!”.
Until I read this lot I can honestly say that the thought of judging somebody due to what type of housing they lived in had never even occurred to me. Mind you after reading a lot of this I’m trying to figure out if I’m middle class or just scum seeing as I have a house in the North East that I pay the mortgage on and I rent one from a private landlord in Lincolnshire.
Think I’ll go lie down in a darkened room.
Typical bunch of blue collar tories .
"Im ok mate , so sod the rest of them "
You lot should remember that old people get turfed out of the homes that they own by the Tory goverments , if they should need to go into care .
The homes are forcibly sold and a big chunk of the proceeds is confiscated by the state to pay for the care .
Why someone in social housing isnt expected to live in an appropriate sized home , or pay a full market rent if they can afford it is totally beyond me .
robroy:
The-Snowman:
ckm1981:
I wanted to rent my garage out to 20 immigrants for a measly £20pw each,council wouldn’t let me and they wonder why there is a shortage of social housing.You’ve cornered the market in McDonalds coffee stickers (I saw the thread before it got locked). Why are you wasting your time trying to rent out your garage?
Can somebody fill me in in a pm, or in a non rule breaking, ‘general style non thread locking’ way about this, I’m a Maccy D latte addict.
He was trying to sell us the stickers you get on McDonald’s coffee cups… but in industrial quantities. I think he’d just picked up a load from the McDonald’s Coffee Cup Sticker Factory and some of them must have fell into the boot of his car. 
Shame on me for returning to the original subject but… I’ve just read up a bit on the actual proposed legislation and as far as I can see the earnings limit applies only to new tenancies. So topmixer , if you’ve bin there for over 20 years your safe mate , ask for your pay cut back , congrats live long and prosper in your home.
Jim
I reckon he went litter picking in the laybys on the A49 Contra.
Only read the 1st page but I will say I know of a guy who works at ours, probably on low to mid 30k/pa who also lives in a HA property and a married couple (different depot, 1 driver, 1 office based with an annual income of probably 45k, also in a HA property…and they’ve just downsized from a 3 bed to a 2 bed as his brother wanted a bigger gaff (also in full time employment and is a bouncer at weekends, so probably a fair wedge of CIH) and yep…they swapped houses!
