Sixty years in same north Hull council house

“What's your point tigercub? Are you one of those snobs who follow the Thatcher principle that anybody who doesn't own their own home is a failure?

You sound like another one of those idiots who think council properties are rent free. The major difference between a council property and a private rented property is that the council are more accountable and tend to maintain their properties better than private landlords.

You sound like a typical anti-social housing snob who would rather see everybody dragged down to the same level as the worst private landlord than (falsely) think that somebody is getting something you're not.”

“"I've been in my council house for 60 years".... a headline that can only come from somebody living in Hull!.....”

“Pete, HULL. I can well imagine that Maggie would have had a hand in it. Deregulation was the panacea for everything in her time wasn't it? Even the deregulation of banks began in 1986 and look what that's done for us.

I shudder to think what will happen if the Tories get back in and again try to solve problems by controlling the money supply through high interest rates. Those who think they have been suffering over the last couple of years are in for real pain if monetarism is brought back and pain is what Osborne has promised.

Now where's my one-way ticket to Tristan da Cunha?”

“Forgot, if the tenant buys the property, the rate payer then picks up the remaining cost of the mortgage used to buy the council house in the first place.”

“Devils advocate, the rents shot up because Maggie Thatcher scrapped the rent controls that applied to rental market.

She said more repairs would be done and landlords would be more inclined to rent than sell.

As for cross subsidy Council rents are not, by law, allowed to be subsidised from the rates so the rental has to cover all costs, including paying off the loan borrowed to build the house in the first place”

“She rang the council in 1950 to do a repair, they are coming tomorrow, (they have been waiting for the parts?)

Well done to Enid.”

“I wonder how many times in 60 years, Her house has been ransacked by local burglars in that area??”

“yorkiegirl, York. Yes sixpence or 6d is equivalent to 2 1/2p of today's money. What is surprising though is that the rent was 50p or 10s (shillings) a week back in 1949. There are web inflation calculators that show that the equivalent today of 10s is £13.36 after inflation is taken into account, and so today's average rent of around £58 a week is well above what it should be at 434% more. That would make the modifications very expensive and council tenants never own a brick. To initiate the backbiting brigade, it looks as though council tenants have been subsidising the private housing market all these years since WW2 and that's a new slant.”

“She's lucky her house wasn't selected for scattershod demolition as appears to be the "policy" of Hull City Council and their council housing stock over the past 15/20 years.
Check out nearby Bainton Grove (on the Hull/Cottingham border) for evidence - blocks vanished and not replaced, seemingly at random. (not to mention Hull's newest estate North Bransholme, which despite it's age and proximity to trendy "Kingswood" is still undergoing such "improvements" amidst a lack of "affordable housing"”

“how can anybody have lived in the same home for longer when she has lived there 60 years and the house is only 65-70 years old? :p”