, < Regeneration, < New Start editorial index page Discuss or Comment on this article - Join in the discussion and add your comment to this article's discussion page - your comments may be considered for publication in New Start When a politician declares that the mistakes of the past must not be repeated, it’s time to press the panic button, stock up with tinned food and redecorate the bunker. If the tenants can’t afford to buy elsewhere, the reasoning goes, let’s give them a stake in what they have. Each household pays an average of £3,400 a year on debt interest.