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  • Originally, council housing was supposed to be available for everyone.
    A socially funded, reasonably priced, decent accommodation for anyone.
    With the added bonus for the council that they have properties vulnerable people could be housed in at cost.

    And there are still legacy tenants from those days happily living in their council places.

    R2B was brought in, with the stated idea of giving long-term renters the opportunity to buy at a discount.
    A leg up onto owning and running their own house.
    Unfortunately with the way it was implemented, it ended up gutting the supply of council houses, until we reach today.
    Where only the most vulnerable have a sniff of a chance of being allocated a council house.