English term
the children of those who had bought
The confused term comes the paragraph like this:" When the housing mardet collapsed, house prices fell even as the porches remained. Some of my school friends had been through their first redundancy before their twenty-first birthday. As thd council retreated from the housing market, so inequalityes emerged between different parts of the town. With the council-housing stock depleted, the children of those who had bought were left to fend for themselves."
What's " the children of those who had bought" mean here?
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Jordan
Professional Writer and Translator
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: Arabic to English, English to Arabic, English
the children of the people who had bought
With the council-housing stock depleted, the children of the people who had bought (Council houses) were left to fend for themselves.
the children of those who had bought Council houses
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Jack Doughty
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B D Finch
: "Council housing", not "Council houses" as it includes flats and maisonettes.
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Thanks Barbara. Yes, I was wearing green glasses. As far as I know, a similar scheme here had only houses.
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axies
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Gracias Manuel.
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Discussion
Council tenancies were not tied to a specific property, so when children left home, if the parents were then underoccupying they had to move to smaller accommodation, freeing up the larger property to a new generation of young families with children. All this has meant that the Right to Buy (as those of us working in local authority management knew at the time), has been a disaster from the point of view of meeting housing need.