In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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Tim Lamb wrote:
I already had a house and didn't pay much attention at the time they
were sold off. Without knowing anything about the construction funding,
it seemed not unreasonable at the time.

Is something preventing any local authority building more?

Thatcher specifically forbad the use of money obtained from the sale of
council housing being used to build more. She didn't want any in
subsidised housing, as they would be more likely not to vote Tory.

OK. I wasn't paying attention. Even less likely if they were homeless
with a Tory government?

And once you legislate how councils spend what money they have, it becomes
very difficult for them to go back to building housing.

I was curious where the build money originated. Council borrowing?

I think second homes could have been more heavily taxed without losing
votes as Labour unlikely to refund it:-) My mother actually had a
holiday cottage in Southwold! The farm and farmhouse was a tenanted so I
suppose not strictly a second home.




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Tim Lamb