In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
Fredxx wrote:
Exactly the same principle as you subsidise the poor through universal
credit, etc. Just shifted around.

So you accept selling off houses to those who could afford them removed
some of those subsidies and helped keep rates down.

And prevented them being used in the future by the very people they were
built for.

But that was the point, they weren't going to be available for those who
needed them.
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