Dover-Catch 22
Socialist Press1980 1980-03-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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Dover Tories have come up with a particularly vicious "Catch-22" for homeless workers on the council's 4000-strong housing list.
They have proposed a means test that would eliminate any family with a combined income exceeding £5,250-thus almost wiping out the list of applicants for council housing!
The Catch-22 is that while any family with a joint income of over £100 a week is debarred from obtaining a council house, they would in no way be able to buy a house on the private market.
Average: prices for 3-bedroom houses in Dover are around £28,000—necessitating a £3,000 deposit and a £10,000 per year salary to pay a mortgage!
Meanwhile-presumably arguing that there is now "no demand"". , the Dover Tories have also announced that they will build no more council houses for three years!
Here is the real background to Heseltine's hell-for-leather programme of selling off council houses-to promote private profiteering and speculation at the expense of growing homelessness.
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