Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
20th August 2012, 11:00
A right wing think tank suggests that poor people shouldn't live in 'expensive houses'? Well, cover me in eggs and flour and bake me for forty minutes!!
But yeah, getting quite sick of the constant stream of bile and nonsense from the Tories and their ilk.
Councils should sell off their most expensive houses and reinvest the money in building cheaper homes, the Policy Exchange think tank has said.
Selling top homes when they become vacant would raise £4.5bn a year, enough to build 80,000 to 170,000 new social homes, providing building jobs.
It says social tenants deserve a roof over their heads but not one that is better than most people can afford.
The National Housing Federation said it may lead to a form of social cleansing.
In its Ending Expensive Social Tenancies report, Policy Exchange, which is seen as being close to Prime Minister David Cameron and has influenced government policy in the past, argues the move could create the largest social house building programme since the 1970s - giving the economy a kickstart.
Neil O'Brien, the think tank's director, told the BBC that social housing would still exist in very expensive areas under their proposal, but there would just be "less off it".
"The truth is I don't believe anybody has the right to live in the most expensive parts of town.
"People do have a right to get housed, just not in the very most expensive areas," he said.
(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19311364)
But yeah, getting quite sick of the constant stream of bile and nonsense from the Tories and their ilk.
Councils should sell off their most expensive houses and reinvest the money in building cheaper homes, the Policy Exchange think tank has said.
Selling top homes when they become vacant would raise £4.5bn a year, enough to build 80,000 to 170,000 new social homes, providing building jobs.
It says social tenants deserve a roof over their heads but not one that is better than most people can afford.
The National Housing Federation said it may lead to a form of social cleansing.
In its Ending Expensive Social Tenancies report, Policy Exchange, which is seen as being close to Prime Minister David Cameron and has influenced government policy in the past, argues the move could create the largest social house building programme since the 1970s - giving the economy a kickstart.
Neil O'Brien, the think tank's director, told the BBC that social housing would still exist in very expensive areas under their proposal, but there would just be "less off it".
"The truth is I don't believe anybody has the right to live in the most expensive parts of town.
"People do have a right to get housed, just not in the very most expensive areas," he said.
(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19311364)