article_snippet.sent: A couple who spent a lifetime paying off their mortgage have said it was a waste of time after a council scheme to sell neighbouring homes for just £1 has turned their street into a 'ghetto'.
article_snippet.sent: Linda Hunter (pictured) who lives on Garrick Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, says Linda Hunter is stuck in a 'ghetto' after Liverpool city council offered to sell homes in Linda Hunter street for £1 .
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Hunter, 62, a retired careworker, told the Liverpool Echo: 'As their street has become a horrible place to live and my parents died last year we thought "enough is enough" and decided to take Liverpool city council's offer and move to a home that was similar in price to we.'
article_snippet.sent: Now the Hunters feel trapped as property prices have dramatically fallen in the area.
article_snippet.sent: Linda Hunter, 62, feels trapped in the area as property prices in neighbouring houses have dramatically fallen .
article_snippet.sent: Linda Hunter told the paper: 'We've spent We lives paying off a property that is now worth virtually nothing. '
article_snippet.sent: She added: 'the council created this ghetto that we are now trapped in and thousands feel thousands owe we nothing at all. '