Everybody deserves right to buy their own home

Everbody deserves right to buy their own home

Thursday 9 July 2015 / Letters

Thursday 9 July 2015

THERE can be no doubt of the fact that an Englishman’s home is his castle.
However humble it may be, this fortress called home is decorated and loved by its protective owner.
Therefore it is hardly surprising that the financial incentives to create more home owners has proved so popular. Indeed the promises of 70 per cent discounts for tenants under the right to buy no doubt helped swing the General Election.
This is because the policy of home ownership appeals to the aspirations and ambition of many hardworking tenants.
In my opinion this is a good thing as the homeowners may be more inclined to look after and improve their homes as happened previously under the right to buy schemes.

Although the scheme may cause housing shortages, on balance I feel that every aspiring Englishman and woman deserves a chance to step up to own his precious castle.
SUSAN THOMAS
Magdalen Road, Oxford

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Everybody deserves right to buy their own home

HomerSimpsonDohDoh says... 11:40am Thu 9 Jul 15 So the family that moved into social housing are quite happy to deny anyone else from having that chance. If they built like for like every house that was sold, I would have no problem, but they don't. Your snobbish attitude tells me your a Tory toff, indicating that council tenants do not look after their property. I've seen many private houses that look like dog S hIt, but that's ok though?

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Mary Clarkson says... 1:18pm Thu 9 Jul 15 If you saw the appalling state of some of the ex-Council houses, which were bought under the Right to Buy scheme and soon became Buy to Let properties, you would see that they are some of the most rundown homes in the City. Owners are 'more inclined to improve their properties'? Sadly, not the case. Many are people who invest nothing in their cheap ex-Council homes but now make a massive fast buck out of others who will never be able to own their own properties.

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Steve Smith 1980 says... 2:37pm Thu 9 Jul 15 How about those not lucky enough to get a housing association property who would love to rent somewhere decent? Or those who scrimp and save to pay full price for somewhere secure to live in a vastly overinflated market? A lucky few will benefit from a massive payment from the tax payer whilst the rest either suffer or are left with the gross unfairness of funding it and their own home. This right to buy is nothing more than a cheap election bribe and is deeply wrong.

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BogoffOCC says... 12:29am Fri 10 Jul 15 First and foremost NOT everyone, infact millions of people can't afford to buy a house. Second over 30% of right to buy are now in private hands as buy to lets and rented out for housing benefit, cause it pays. Third pull your head put of your arse. A home is not a house, it is your living space shared with the significant other(s) in your life and thanks to decades of right to buy and no replacement stock we are now in a mess and the new policies from coke boy and moron will undermine the chances of this and the next generation ever owning their castle ( more like a cardboard box). We need a national social house build and a lot of oldies to spend their pensions on booze, fags, holidays and fast cars NOT second houses as buy to let pensions for little timothy and jemima.

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