Don't buy in a new estate

It's well for them, these social tenants in very decent areas all the same isn't it? No one can deny that. Compare and contrast to those who not only are paying through their taxes for them, but are also in many cases going to live next to those who did not have to sweat buckets, and beg steal and borrow to get the deposit and pay a hefty mortgage. The vast majority of purchasers feel the same. And the allocation of these properties to social housing in desirable areas lessens the pool available for those who wish to buy.

Whoever the mod is here can ban me if they want I don't care, I am totally fed up of this overypayment by councils for accommodation in purpose built properties in very good areas. I doubt I am alone, but sure look it, no one can complain about anything that affects them anymore.

Bye now in anticipation.

Yeah right. Athlone and especially Mullingar have problem estates. And I mean big problems in them. Just google it.

Should social housing tenants only live in bad areas? Have to love the snobs who think they should have any choice in who lives near them.

You do understand that there is thousands upon thousands of working people in social housing don't you? So plenty of them contribute to society in many ways. Also (thankfully) people like you don't get to decide where others live, its actually **** all of anybodys business if their neighbours are in social housing or not.

Developers aren't GIVING the houses they build to local government. They're SELLING to them.

This is the ultimate issue alright.

I grew up in a working class area with loads of social housing so I'm not a snob about it and I think the state should build more of it.

But I also do empathise with someone forking out 450k on a brand new house and then seeing half the street living there virtually for free.

And I can see why a couple earning around 60k are aggrieved at paying 1500 per month for a one bedroom apartment while people they went to school with who popped out three kids by the age of 21 get a three bed semi-detached house for a couple for a few hundred per month.

Social housing is a necessary and and effective policy within an overall functioning market. When the market is as broken as it is at the moment the perception will always be that social housing is in some way unfair, and in many cases that's actually a justified view to have.

I live in an estate with social housing. The estate was built in stages, and a lot of the social housing seem to be grouped together, I don't live near any, but if you drove around our estate, I wouldn't have to tell you where the social housing is concentrated, its obvious. The houses aren't looked after all, that may be because they can't afford it, or because they don't have as much pride in it because they didn't have to work as hard for it. But if you work your ass off to buy a house and are surround by people who don't care about theirs, then it affects the value of your house, so not only do your taxes end up subsidizing houses for other people, the value of your own drops at the same time. I wouldn't call that snobbery, it's just a natural reaction to being shafted.

And I'm sure your going to say not all people in social housing will neglect their house, which of course it true, but a much higher percentage will than people who have paid for the house themselves. There's plenty in social housing and nobody even knows it's social housing, they're not the people anybody has a problem with.