Has that woman in the Newtown painted her front door pink again?
I hope it leads to action being taken. The only way to tackle this issue is to build more houses – particularly social housing. Even just loosening planning laws would go a long way.
>Meanwhile, the council – which is run by a minority Labour administration – said about 200 bids are made for each social rented home that becomes available.
That is insane. 200:1. Urgent action is needed.
Thanks Thatcher.
Maybe selling off council houses, not letting LAs keep the money to build more was a mistake??
Who would have thought that a capital city with strict limits on building both out and up would face a housing problem?
Hmmm. A year ago Harvie said he didn’t accept the premise that freezing rents might in any way have an impact on the future supply of rental accommodation. Fancy that!
Not that rent controls are the only contributory factor – interest rates, better yields elsewhere and rent controls are compelling many landlords to exit the PRS – but they sure as shit ain’t helping.
I’m in Edinburgh a lot. There are now too many parallels to London for my liking and I don’t see it getting any better.
The people are becoming ever more snippy and rude as well.
Freeze rents > landlords sell up as renting their properties is losing money > this raises the price of the limited rental properties still available > the raised prices mean more families cannot afford to rent a house > the already overwhelmed social housing system collapses due to the influx of families who can no longer afford to rent
It’s almost as if this happens everywhere rent controls are implemented.
This has fuck all to do with landlords, who at best provide a temporary release to the problem with private rented accomidation, and everything to do with a lack of social housing built over the past 30-40 years after Thatcher fucked social housing in perpetuity with the right to buy.
Blame lies squarely at succesive Tory, Labour and SNP governments (both Scottish and UK Wide) for not remedying this very obvious problem. Build more social housing, fuck the NIMBY’s. Consider it Keynesian returns if you must somehow recoup costs from a universal human right.
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Has that woman in the Newtown painted her front door pink again?
I hope it leads to action being taken. The only way to tackle this issue is to build more houses – particularly social housing. Even just loosening planning laws would go a long way.
>Meanwhile, the council – which is run by a minority Labour administration – said about 200 bids are made for each social rented home that becomes available.
That is insane. 200:1. Urgent action is needed.
Thanks Thatcher.
Maybe selling off council houses, not letting LAs keep the money to build more was a mistake??
Who would have thought that a capital city with strict limits on building both out and up would face a housing problem?
Hmmm. A year ago Harvie said he didn’t accept the premise that freezing rents might in any way have an impact on the future supply of rental accommodation. Fancy that!
Not that rent controls are the only contributory factor – interest rates, better yields elsewhere and rent controls are compelling many landlords to exit the PRS – but they sure as shit ain’t helping.
I’m in Edinburgh a lot. There are now too many parallels to London for my liking and I don’t see it getting any better.
The people are becoming ever more snippy and rude as well.
Freeze rents > landlords sell up as renting their properties is losing money > this raises the price of the limited rental properties still available > the raised prices mean more families cannot afford to rent a house > the already overwhelmed social housing system collapses due to the influx of families who can no longer afford to rent
It’s almost as if this happens everywhere rent controls are implemented.
This has fuck all to do with landlords, who at best provide a temporary release to the problem with private rented accomidation, and everything to do with a lack of social housing built over the past 30-40 years after Thatcher fucked social housing in perpetuity with the right to buy.
Blame lies squarely at succesive Tory, Labour and SNP governments (both Scottish and UK Wide) for not remedying this very obvious problem. Build more social housing, fuck the NIMBY’s. Consider it Keynesian returns if you must somehow recoup costs from a universal human right.