Over on hpc.co.uk they are weakening, they are buying!

StevieJ

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

What do you think are the differences today from then?

In terms of home ownership, the percentages were far lower and I presume the expectations to be homeowners was also lower.

Would you advocate a return to those times / partial return?

We certainly need more social housing.

IveSeenTheLight

StevieJ wrote: »

We certainly need more social housing.

I wouldn;t disagree with you there, just wondering where the funding will come from.

Really, this is inherant from the governments RTB sell off of council housing.

andy.m_2

So I guess you didn't invest your house fund in gold then.

No. Because people who do that, even though they may have made money, tend to be utter dicks in real life. Just saying.

This is funny

coastline

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

I wouldn;t disagree with you there, just wondering where the funding will come from.

Really, this is inherant from the governments RTB sell off of council housing.

I'm sure I've read the government wants to extend right to buy....make it even cheaper for those that rent....and use the income to build more council houses..

IveSeenTheLight

coastline wrote: »

I'm sure I've read the government wants to extend right to buy....make it even cheaper for those that rent....and use the income to build more council houses..

So they believe they can build new social housing cheaper than the can sell old council housing with a massive discount.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

They believe they can build more social housing than they will sell off.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I won;t hold my breath but will be pleasantly surprised if they pull it off.

andy.m_2

There are some very angry young men on that board!

Percy1983

andy.m wrote: »

There are some very angry young men on that board!

There appears to many bitter old men on here too :rotfl:

ruggedtoast

There are many twisted and angry people on the board hpc.co.uk. But they have been made that way, forged by anger and defeat at the constant onslaught of unfair house prices.

Like the orcs of Mordor.



Bruce Banner preparing to telephone his landlord, earlier today

martinsurrey

You cant compare NI and England for one very very big reason.

Planning, and construction levels.

NI has a population of 1.8m (about) and at the peak constructed about 0.008 houses per person per year (14,000)

England has a population of 53m yet in 2002-2007 constructed an average of 176,000 houses per year, or 0.003 houses per person per year, well under half of the NI rate.

England may have had a price bubble, but NI had a price bubble AND a construction bubble, which is why they have been hammered by falling prices.

Restrictive planning regulations in England kept supply low and led to low levels of vacant stock, so no need to lower prices to clear the construction industry books.

(all my stats are available from the department for national statistics, or link there to other gov sites)

NEO72

Loving that the evidence for HPCers 'weakening' is an individual considering buying a house. There's actually a whole section there devoted to buying and selling so feel free to browse through it and select some more 'evidence'.

It's funny the obsession some of the posters here have with stalking and slagging of HPC - like spurned teenage girls who can't stop talking about their ex, but like really, really hate him...