Housing shouldn’t be a profitable commodity. It should be nationalised. You either own your own house, or lease one from the government. Profiting from putting a roof over someone’s head then extorting them for the privilege is sick and wrong.
It’s pretty, pretty cool that we’ll have workhouses again in my lifetime.
What’s the cause, what’s the solution?
More importantly – what are you going to do about it?
Complaining has got us, and will get us nowhere.
I’m about to rent my house out to my brother, I’ll be making 3k a year after taxes from doing so and I’m charging around 600 for a two bedroom house, others in the area charge 800plus for the same.
I don’t want to really rent out as it’s a pain in the backside and then some, plus the upkeep of two houses
But he would be in a bed share if I didn’t.
Don’t worry, the UK economy is very sustainable and 0.1% growth will be yours to enjoy very soon.
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It’s not a crisis if it’s only affecting the poors.
This is inevitable when so much of the economy and pensions are linked to property investments. Unpicking this problem without collapsing the economy is going to be slow and difficult, and that’s once the government decides action is needed.
It’s not a crisis until it affects enough MPs themselves directly, not their constituents, them. Once it directly affects them, then you will see something happening.
Rent-seeking behaviour is a leech on any developed economy. This was well understood in post-war Britain but it’s something that has apparently been forgotten. You can’t stimulate growth when the people who are generating value are handing the majority of their pay over to greedy bastards who contribute nothing beyond owning the assets that the rest of us need access to if we don’t want to die of exposure.
Trick of language imo. The “housing crisis” isn’t a crisis for the people who matter in Britain: landlords
Tell them to cancel their netflix and stop eating avocados then!
Ultimately any Gov policy that KO’s house pricing isn’t politically viable due to the voting demographic, and that’s the first order effect for all of these issues.
No don’t worry everyone, we have developed this genius system over the years called Universal Credit, where they collect our taxes and redistribute it to people who are working full time but still can’t afford to live. That way companies don’t need to pay us enough to survive. It gets subsidised by everyone else, and the richest people on the planet can carry on getting more profits every year and they can blame us for being a drain on the system at the same time!
It’s not a crisis for those in power, it’s working exactly as intended.
HMO are still in the growth phase, not a great sign
The guardian are on denial here the reason evictions have gone up is because measured already introduced and that labour will be introduced have landlords selling their properties. It’s not economical to continue renting properties out for many people. That also causes rental prices to rise. The people that are most effected by this are… Working people who probably can’t afford a mortgage for whatever reason)
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Housing shouldn’t be a profitable commodity. It should be nationalised. You either own your own house, or lease one from the government. Profiting from putting a roof over someone’s head then extorting them for the privilege is sick and wrong.
It’s pretty, pretty cool that we’ll have workhouses again in my lifetime.
What’s the cause, what’s the solution?
More importantly – what are you going to do about it?
Complaining has got us, and will get us nowhere.
I’m about to rent my house out to my brother, I’ll be making 3k a year after taxes from doing so and I’m charging around 600 for a two bedroom house, others in the area charge 800plus for the same.
I don’t want to really rent out as it’s a pain in the backside and then some, plus the upkeep of two houses
But he would be in a bed share if I didn’t.
Don’t worry, the UK economy is very sustainable and 0.1% growth will be yours to enjoy very soon.
/s
It’s not a crisis if it’s only affecting the poors.
This is inevitable when so much of the economy and pensions are linked to property investments. Unpicking this problem without collapsing the economy is going to be slow and difficult, and that’s once the government decides action is needed.
It’s not a crisis until it affects enough MPs themselves directly, not their constituents, them. Once it directly affects them, then you will see something happening.
Rent-seeking behaviour is a leech on any developed economy. This was well understood in post-war Britain but it’s something that has apparently been forgotten. You can’t stimulate growth when the people who are generating value are handing the majority of their pay over to greedy bastards who contribute nothing beyond owning the assets that the rest of us need access to if we don’t want to die of exposure.
Trick of language imo. The “housing crisis” isn’t a crisis for the people who matter in Britain: landlords
Tell them to cancel their netflix and stop eating avocados then!
Ultimately any Gov policy that KO’s house pricing isn’t politically viable due to the voting demographic, and that’s the first order effect for all of these issues.
No don’t worry everyone, we have developed this genius system over the years called Universal Credit, where they collect our taxes and redistribute it to people who are working full time but still can’t afford to live. That way companies don’t need to pay us enough to survive. It gets subsidised by everyone else, and the richest people on the planet can carry on getting more profits every year and they can blame us for being a drain on the system at the same time!
It’s not a crisis for those in power, it’s working exactly as intended.
HMO are still in the growth phase, not a great sign
The guardian are on denial here the reason evictions have gone up is because measured already introduced and that labour will be introduced have landlords selling their properties. It’s not economical to continue renting properties out for many people. That also causes rental prices to rise. The people that are most effected by this are… Working people who probably can’t afford a mortgage for whatever reason)
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