I’ve got a HA house, it’s lovely, perfectly maintained, everything you need, very little you don’t and usfully affordable.
Sadly we’ve got to move because we’ve outgrown it, so we’re looking at private renting, roughly twice what we’re paying now, most look tired and unloved, Landlords want 3 working day just to acknowledge a request for maintenance (great if the boiler breaks on a Fri evening in Feb with 2 kids at home) and I’m hearing lots of people pretty pissed off because they want a 30% hike in rent at renewal.
We don’t qualify for another HA house, we both earn decent money now and even if we did we’d have to wait 5 years or so on the combined list – you wait, if the first houses that come to the top of the list are council houses in warzones and you turn down 3, you back to the bottom of the list, fair enough I guess. We don’t need help anymore, others really do – you’re looking at 800-900 a month for a 3 bed near us and most people under 30 are earning £15k a year or so.