General Discussion

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/right-to-buy-housing-shame-third-ex-council-1743338

This is why social housing is in such a crisis, these greedy landlords know that they can milk it in from the benefit system, they are the immoral ones,dont believe this bedroom tax is about making cuts to the welfare bill, it will cost them more to push them out into the private sector which gives these people more!!!!!! 

This is looking like the next fraud scandal to make the headlines. Surely if Mr Gow was not the sitting tennent at the time of the sale, then he has committed fraud. He or his son and family should by law have to hand back the properties to the council concerned so that the present tennants can be offered  the right to buy. 

Think you'll find it doesn't work like that FB.

Once sold off into the private sector ex local authority homes become precisely that (ex local authority) and are sold and bought on the open market just like any other privately owned homes.

I've seen so much about 'Greedy Landlords' and 'Money Grubbing' Housing Associations' recently but my experience doesn't reflect that.

Searching for a certain document today I came across some correspondence between my Trustees, solicitors and the (now defunct but replaced) Housing Corporation.

In essence my Association wanted to charge lower rates of rent than the HC dictated and a letter from the solicitors engaged by our Association stated "in view of the regulations we can find find no justification for charging a lower rent"!!!!

Discuss.

You haven't told us what the Housing Corporations regulations were.

And I think the point of B'nut's original posting is concerned with private sector landlords, the amount of ex local authority housing now in the private rented sector and how much those private sector landlords get from the taxpayer via hb/lha.