Public Housing should be STOPPED & SOLD

[ufo_investigations]

The government buys houses and rents them out to people at a discounted rate and the tax payer has to carry this burden.

Why is this so?   Governments should not be buying houses!

I'm sorry but we should not have government housing!

Complete waste money!

All government housing should be sold to private sector!

The millions of dollars raised from the sale will build better roads, freeways, hospitals.

Governments should govern NOT buy houses for people to live in!

The job of government is to govern not babysit people!

***** Dear State Governments **** Please SELL ALL GOVERNMENT HOUSES !!! ****

[k0llectable5]

Just think... when we have thousands of people homeless and desperate because the guvment sold their house, we can just tell them "dont worry mate at least we have more roads and freeways now..."  

[lionrose.7]

Is this Pick on the homeless and poor people week!!!

[punch*drunk]

We need public housing but we need it better regulated so that people are moved on when they no longer need it or shifted to smaller houses when their children have grown.

I'd like to see the government heavily subsidise private rentals for disadvantaged people to get them off the housing waiting list. Even those on welfare that can afford to pay rent cant get a rental because they are on welfare. I reckon it could be cheaper to subsidise rent than own and maintain all those properties.

[lyne-flyn]

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

The government buys houses and rents them out to people at a discounted rate and the tax payer has to carry this burden.

Why is this so?   Governments should not be buying houses!

I'm sorry but we should not have government housing!

Complete waste money!

All government housing should be sold to private sector!

The millions of dollars raised from the sale will build better roads, freeways, hospitals.

Governments should govern NOT buy houses for people to live in!

The job of government is to govern not babysit people!

***** Dear State Governments **** Please SELL ALL GOVERNMENT HOUSES !!! ****

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And just where do you propose the current tenants in these houses live?

You must have some idea if you are so keen on taking peoples homes from them.

[ivoau65]

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

The government buys houses and rents them out to people at a discounted rate and the tax payer has to carry this burden.

Why is this so?   Governments should not be buying houses!

I'm sorry but we should not have government housing!

Complete waste money!

All government housing should be sold to private sector!

The millions of dollars raised from the sale will build better roads, freeways, hospitals.

Governments should govern NOT buy houses for people to live in!

The job of government is to govern not babysit people!

***** Dear State Governments **** Please SELL ALL GOVERNMENT HOUSES !!! ****

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NONSENSE! It may be better managed but to abolish it is nonsense.You think the private investors care about people being homeless?Why would anyone believe you anyway?When it suited you to act like a Bible believing catholic you did that even though you do not believe the Bible and do not follow it.So why would anyone believe anything you said?

[ivoau65]

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@iapetus_rocks wrote:

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: ... Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. Matthew 25:28

LNP policy even in antiquity?

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Except you do not understand what it means.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@secondhand-wonderland wrote:

Just think... when we have thousands of people homeless and desperate because the guvment sold their house, we can just tell them "dont worry mate at least we have more roads and freeways now..."  

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they could sleep under the new bridges and overpassses.

[lurker172602]

Am I correct in thinking you have to have a permanent address to get welfare benefits?

Ha! Two birds, one stone!

[rabbitearbandicoot]

@punch*drunk wrote:

We need public housing but we need it better regulated so that people are moved on when they no longer need it or shifted to smaller houses when their children have grown.

I agree with that, but, there was a thread a while ago decrying that policy. Poor people having to move after renting a place for 30 years and bringing up their children there - why should they move out of the 4/5 bedroom essentially empty house into a smaller one so someone with 5 kids can live there instead of in their car - a bit selfish don't you think.

[daydream**believer]

"We need public housing but we need it better regulated so that people are moved on when they no longer need it or shifted to smaller houses when their children have grown."

Totally agree.

I knew of an elderly lady in a 3 bedroom house while a family of 3 kids and 2 adults were in a 2 bedroom house