Who's Levelling Up?

[japancool]

What you need is more of what happened to my mum

After splitting with my father she ended up in a shelter then a small 2 bed council house, she met a guy and married him who was a roofer/brickie

A new housing estate was being built and instead of "affordable houses" which we all know are anything but, what the council and housing developer agreed was a road at the corner of the estate was designated for self build. The council wrote to everyone in social housing and told them about the plot and stated the price saying you could use up your "right to buy" allowance (for want of a better word) to go towards that land rather than your current house. You had to apply stating your skills, with her having experience with timesheets and payroll and him a roofer/brickie they were one of the 14 lucky families, they were helped to get mortgages to cover the materials costs and stayed in their council/HA houses whilst they built their new homes. After about 14 months they all moved in, the council/HA got to keep 14 properties they could let to others in need, 14 families had lovely new 3 bed semi's (many then extended them whilst still in the VAT holiday period), my brother learned the skills helping out that meant he is now a chippie whilst at the time he was working on an insurance call centre

They were not allowed to sell for a minimum of 5 years post completion (without a large financial penalty) but actually only 1 of the 14 did immediately they could

Time to dump this wife and find a new one who's a roofer/brickie!