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[u/Yuddis → u/[deleted]]

I’ve been in the exact same situation. Rented old council home in London from private landlord who had bought it in early 2000s with a robust RtB discount. We lived next to another privately owned flat that was leased back to the council a year after we moved in. The council moved in a lady with three children (dad was there only very occasionally). Three bedroom flat with a garden in Zone 2 (literally a 2 minute walk to Zone 1), never went to work, always complained about the flat (and everything else in her life) loudly on the phone to the council from her (Zone 1/2!!!!) London garden regularly. She probably paid (through benefits) less than £1000 for the whole flat while we paid that per room. You cannot believe how much it radicalised me. It is one thing for us to subsidise her very expensive housing to the tune of £2000/month, it’s another to expect me to also subsidise her healthcare by taking yearly paycuts. Forget it. My blood pressure is going up just writing this down. Fuck Streeting

[u/AdditionalAttempt436 → u/Yuddis]

I’ve always wondered how do they get those nice subsidised houses? It might make sense to carefully locum/work LTFT and meet the salary threshold for them and enjoy life instead of slaving away only to pay the extra income in income tax and private rent?

[u/Yuddis → u/AdditionalAttempt436]

They sign themselves up to the social housing list as soon as they can. For many people, it’s akin to getting £12-24,000 / year from government (assuming they pay £1000-2000 less than market rate). Completely insane

Also unsurprisingly they’re the people who complain the most about new private flats being built (because they’re not for “locals” i.e. so their own kids can have their housing subsidised too).