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Squatting is the Only Affordable Housing

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  • makeyourdaddyproud
    makeyourdaddyproud Posts: 1,294 Forumite
    DRP wrote: »
    do you know the current and historical trends for this comparison?

    No need, because you know the comment is, broadly speaking, true.

    It's a foregone conclusion that the NMW don't allow for rising housing costs IN MOST AREAS OF THE UK.
  • E.L.James
    E.L.James Posts: 80 Forumite
    Jamie_Carter wrote: »
    The forum title is nothing to do with this Mark Boyle guy, whoever he is. And from what you have said I've got no desire to find out who he is.

    If you love him so much, then get a room with him... or should I say a room in someone's house. ;)

    This forum is all about squatting and he is a legend in the squatting community.
    The GFC used to stand for global financial crisis. Now it stands for the global financial catastrophe.
  • E.L.James
    E.L.James Posts: 80 Forumite
    makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »
    No need, because you know the comment is, broadly speaking, true.

    It's a foregone conclusion that the NMW don't allow for rising housing costs IN MOST AREAS OF THE UK.

    Yes those on NMW have to rely on housing benefit, especially families with kids. this October when the changes and cuts come in rents will have to fall a long way, or many families will find themselves in arrears and like it or not will be squatting in their own homes.
    The GFC used to stand for global financial crisis. Now it stands for the global financial catastrophe.
  • Jamie_Carter
    Jamie_Carter Posts: 5,282 Forumite
    E.L.James wrote: »
    This forum is all about squatting and he is a legend in the squatting community.

    So that makes him a top scumbag... that still makes him a scumbag.
  • Jamie_Carter
    Jamie_Carter Posts: 5,282 Forumite
    BBC1 right now, 'The Bailiffs are Coming', evicting squatters. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    And the are evicting them from business premises.
  • _Andy_
    _Andy_ Posts: 11,150 Forumite
    I like turtles.
  • antrobus
    antrobus Posts: 17,386 Forumite
    E.L.James wrote: »
    It is not a wild exaggeration at all. There are about a million residential empty that is just residential alone. When you include ALL empty buildings including disused old empty buildings of ANY kind, I think it is reasonable to say there are millions of empty properties. ..

    It's a very wild exaggeration. Out of the 920,000 empty homes in the UK, only 330,000 have been empty for more than six months. Mostly they're empty for a reason. The occupier is in hospital, or died recently. The property is being refurbished, redeveloped, whatever. The actual number of number of homes that might be made available for occupation if someone pulled their finger out is actually quite small.

    So do give the impression that the nation is overflowing with empty homes simply waiting to be put to use is quite wrong.
    E.L.James wrote: »
    ...But I have no idea the exact numbers ....

    You "have no idea"? Well yes, I worked that one out for myself.:)
    E.L.James wrote: »
    ...I do not think there is any way of finding out......

    So there isn't any way of finding out the number of empty properties, yet you've found out that that the number is millions?

    (Shakes head in bafflement.)
  • E.L.James
    E.L.James Posts: 80 Forumite
    How can you find out how many barns and building in the country are empty? Its a good estimate to say its prob in the millions.
    The GFC used to stand for global financial crisis. Now it stands for the global financial catastrophe.
  • ViolaLass
    ViolaLass Posts: 5,764 Forumite
    E.L.James wrote: »
    How can you find out how many barns and building in the country are empty? Its a good estimate to say its prob in the millions.

    Bloody farmers refusing to keep their cattle indoors during the summer.
  • E.L.James
    E.L.James Posts: 80 Forumite
    Well its very hard to find out how many empty buildings there are in the UK.
    The GFC used to stand for global financial crisis. Now it stands for the global financial catastrophe.
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