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Help to Buy is not causing a housing bubble
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JencParker wrote: »So you started out on a low salary? Not all jobs have prospects or are a stepping stone up the ladder. Some jobs will always be low paid. You expect them to move out and pay thousands in commuting to their minimum wage jobs? Or perhaps you think London doesn't need any cleaners etc.
Where do London cleaners currently live?
Supermarkets in Central London seem to be staffed also. Somehow people cope.Don't blame me, I voted Remain.0 -
mayonnaise wrote: »Where do London cleaners currently live?
Supermarkets in Central London seem to be staffed also. Somehow people cope.
They probably claim LHA perhaps the ans is for the supermarkets to pay a living wage and people in London to pay the real cost of providing their services0 -
They probably claim LHA perhaps the ans is for the supermarkets to pay a living wage and people in London to pay the real cost of providing their services
I'm confused why supermarkets should pay their employees more because the elected government has encouraged massive inward immigration, restricted house building and caused rents to rise by paying silly levels of housing benefit.0 -
I'm confused why supermarkets should pay their employees more because the elected government has encouraged massive inward immigration, restricted house building and caused rents to rise by paying silly levels of housing benefit.
Because their wages are being subsidised by the tax payer0 -
Because their wages are being subsidised by the tax payer
their wages are not being subsidised by the tax payer.
our elected government has forced the price of house up by paying silly amounts of HB, by restricting the supply of new housing, by allowing until occupancy of social housing, by a mad tax credit system that discourages full time working etc
what has that got to do with supermarkets?0 -
their wages are not being subsidised by the tax payer.
our elected government has forced the price of house up by paying silly amounts of HB, by restricting the supply of new housing, by allowing until occupancy of social housing, by a mad tax credit system that discourages full time working etc
what has that got to do with supermarkets?
What would happen if no LHA was paid in London you seem to think that prices can be forced down to a level where people on low earnings could buy or at least rent without LHA I don't think that is the case.0 -
their wages are not being subsidised by the tax payer.
our elected government has forced the price of house up by paying silly amounts of HB, by restricting the supply of new housing, by allowing until occupancy of social housing, by a mad tax credit system that discourages full time working etc
what has that got to do with supermarkets?
Working Tax Credit subsidises low paid workers who are not earning a living wage. Therefore, they are being subsidised by the tax payer.0 -
JencParker wrote: »Working Tax Credit subsidises low paid workers who are not earning a living wage. Therefore, they are being subsidised by the tax payer.
indeed so, people who choose not to work or choose to only work part time are all subsidised by other people who do work.
tax credit are an un-necessary recent invention which have caused a lot of harm to the people receiving them and their children; in the same way that housing benefit has distorted the housing market, cause prices to rise for everyone without significantly encouraging new building
what has that got to do with supermarkets?0 -
What would happen if no LHA was paid in London you seem to think that prices can be forced down to a level where people on low earnings could buy or at least rent without LHA I don't think that is the case.
LHA was massively increased after 1997: even before that the system was broken.
LHA doesn't significantly increase the housing stock, just the amount of money the taxpayer gives to landlords.
if there was no housing benefit who would occupy the houses currently filled with people on HB?0 -
LHA was massively increased after 1997: even before that the system was broken.
LHA doesn't significantly increase the housing stock, just the amount of money the taxpayer gives to landlords.
if there was no housing benefit who would occupy the houses currently filled with people on HB?[/QUOTE
People who commute people who currently share.0
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