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It used to be the case that certain benefits could be paid direct to the Landlord. I'm no expert in this, but I think this is no longer the case.
Short answer should be that these particular people should be asked to agree to this if they want to be eligible.
As an example, I live in the Tendring area. Population-just over 150,000. Some of the worst social deprivation in the UK.
There was a Parliamentary question some years ago. Where someone pointed out the severe Council Housing need. And pointed out that the total of 4+ bedroomed Council houses in Tendring was.....
10.
I think that the sheme was good, in that it gave people who wished to own their own home, the opportunity to do so, and many of them may not have otherwise had the opportunity.
It just seems logical that you would spend the receipts on council homes to replace the ones that were sold.
Up here the miners awe got first shot at all the mimtec and ibm computer jobs and most didn’t take up the offer it was good cash as well
That was the excuse they used up here for very little replacement housing if I remember correctly
Didn’t realise how little council housing was left down south .A don’t think we’re as bad as that up this way a housing scheme a used to stay in only 135 houses but there’s only about 60 been bought the rest are still council that’s down in West Calder about four miles fae Livingston centre.. they should try when granting all these building permits for schemes to all these private contractors/ companies plenty about here getting built , getting them to build the council a couple off houses as part off the deal ..
15 September 2020
The real ‘social housing waiting list’ in England is 500,000 households bigger than official figures suggest, reveals our new data today.
The findings are published in our annual People in Housing Need report, the most comprehensive report to date on the state of the nation’s housing crisis. It is the only research to analyse the true number of people in need of social housing in England, which has now hit 3.8m. This equates to 1.6m households – 500,000 more than the 1.16m households recorded on official waiting lists.[i]
Due to the severe shortage of social homes, some of these people have been on their council waiting list for almost two decades and may never be housed.[ii]
https://www.housing.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/the-real-social-housing-waiting-list-is-500000-more-than-official-figures/#:~:text=This equates to 1.6m households – 500,000 more,two decades and may never be housed. [ii]
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/utterly-unsustainable-london-councils-spend-4million-a-day-on-housing-homeless-driving-some-to-bankruptcy/ar-AA1sPe9Z?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=2b11bff78628487c9741d1c137ac7183&ei=51#fullscreen
You had to be a tenant to qualify.
There was a rule about when you could sell it.
If you sold before you had to give the discount back.
What was far more common was kids forcing elderly parents to buy their Council House with a secret Trust where the kids were the secret owners.
Was that legal then?
If it was possible I suspect it would have been a very small number.
I was involved in quite a few.
All of whom were over the moon to be given the opportunity.
I remember some of the rules to this day.
You had to be a tenant for 2 years to qualify for a 32% discount.
There was an additional discount of 1% per year, over 2,
The maximum discount available was 50% on a house, 60% on a flat.
There was an anomaly where you could qualify for the discount by being on the rent book, and in some cases kids were buying their parents homes, after never being taken off the rent books, even though they hadnt lived there for years.
The most expensive ones that I was involved with were jost over 40k.
So a 20 year tenant, got them for half price, but that was after paying 20 years rent.
I thought it was a good idea, but they should have built more with the proceeds.
How Long After Buying A Council House Can You Sell It?
Although you can legally sell your council house anytime after the purchase and completion of documentation for transfer for ownership, however, if you sell it before the end of a five-year term, you will have to repay the discount that you availed under the Right to Buy Scheme.
Similarly, if you sell your council house before the end of a ten-year term, you will first have to offer it for sale to your council authorities or social housing landlord before you list the property for sale in the open market. If the landlord does not agree to buy the property or there is a conflict in the price that you offer versus the one they are willing to pay and there is no settlement between both the parties within 8 weeks, you can list your council house for sale in the open market.
https://huutimoney.com/how-long-after-buying-a-council-house-can-you-sell-it/#:~:text=If you intend to sell your council house,a minimum of 5 years after the purchase.
Kids provided the money for the Right to Buy. Which was not divulged. They did this for a variety of reasons-from greed, to wanting to get on the housing ladder themselves. So District Land Registry tells 1 story. And the Trust another.
I dealt with the aftermath of several of these. Because life throws up problems.
From rows between kids when only some were in on the deal. To whether the elderly person should be prevented going into a Care Home within the 5 years. To the cost of Windows in a block of flats (because a Leaseholder has financial responsibilities that a Tenant does not)-difficult to explain to the well-meaning Parent that they have to find £10,000.
There were plenty of Financial Advisers, Mortgage Brokers and Solicitors who knew fine well what was going on, and made considerable profits themselves. And, afaik, not a single one ever got into trouble for it. Because £hundreds of millions of discounts were fraudulently obtained.
In relation to your comment that "they (the Local Authorities) should have built more with the proceeds". Of course they should. But Thatcher intervened and expressly forbade this. Councils would have been committing a Criminal Offence if they did.
If I remember rightly the funds from the proceeds were frozen.
Don't understand your point about funds being frozen.