General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Social housing 'IS' already means tested, and that 'means test' decides where abouts on the Social Housing waiting list applicants are put, councils decide who to offer a tenancy to on the basis of 'need'.

As regards getting rid of tenants who have become rich and can afford to buy their own property, the first thing a rich tenant does is to buy their council house at a knockdown price, I don't agree with that, selling council properties to tenants is bad, it goes against the idea of providing Social Housing.

I think that in the 1960s they had the right idea in building millions of council dwellings, but they went about it in the wrong way, the properties were badly designed and the infrastructure on the new estates in the form of shopping precincts and open spaces were also badly designed, creating no go areas blighted by anti social behaviour, and the New Towns of the 1960s I think were an excellent idea, but they were badly designed, and on top of the design problems, they were of poor construction, with no quality control, they were basically crap.
I think that they should now build New Towns again, with a mix of Social and Private Housing.