It’s nice to get your house at a very reasonable price but to now build thousands and then be stuck with the same regulations is madness.
Let’s look after our people and give them them decent housing other than those who want to make money twice.
Out of interest, you didn’t inherit/buy/take over it from a family member, did you?
I bought it from my grandma/relatives but I paid market rate for it, plenty of aunties and uncles wanted their inheritance money.
It was 90k, I don't know what they paid for it but I'm sure they didn't buy it when it was a 3k price.
There has only been my family lived in the house since it was built after the war.
My dad believed working men didn't own their own home, so my parents missed out on a 3k house because he was an idiot, he was finally talked round when it was 14k.
My Mam still lives in it.
Again I'm not disagreeing that is is madness just that they didn't think it madness when they bought their own council houses cheap as fuck.
The house next door to me costs £550 a month to rent my mortgage isn't half that.
We have a housing association in Carlisle not council houses anymore, they are not cheap to rent, they keep going around them and putting new rooves, doors and windows in them and bumping the rent up, the latest fad is a new plastered front that looks like it will crack in a hard frost.
There is no affordable housing anymore.