Supply isn't the problem, we have a surplus of housing

CLAPTON

cells wrote: »

How does grandma selling her nice big house and moving into a 2 bed flat, outbidding a first time buyer with her 40 years of equity, help first time buyers?

surely you can work that out for yourself

stator

Britain has the smallest houses in europe. There are many 'spare bedrooms' that aren't fit to keep a hamster in. So it may seem houses are under occupied, but most aren't.

Building masses of bigger houses is the answer. Will increase living standards across the board.

Crashy_Time

cells wrote: »

But the banks will only lend about 4-5x income max and the BTL crew are limited by rental cover.

In expensive places like walthamstow and much of London the BTL crew are driving prices and whats driving their ability to bid more are increasing rents

Don`t forget the increasing tax that is forcing them to increase rents even more again.....where will it end.........:rotfl:

Crashy_Time

cells wrote: »

That is BS

The reason there are few homeless is because price rations demand and supply.

You have 30 year olds 40 year olds living in their childhood bedrooms.

You have grown adults living like students in shared homes 5-10 to a house.

You have the growth of the HMO sector

You have sheds in beds

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If you knock down 150,000 homes over the course of a year rather than build 150,000 a year. The result would not be homelessness. The result would be higher rents and higher prices so people cram in more. You could keep knocking down 150,000 homes every year for 10 years and there would be little homelessness

Yawn...........

Generali

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Yawn...........

Congratulations on making the most pointless post of the day.

cells

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Yawn...........

you do yourself no favours crashy but i still wish you the best

goodnight

kinger101

Generali wrote: »

Congratulations on making the most pointless post of the day.

It's actually the most eloquent thing he's said in a long time.

Sapphire

stator wrote: »

Britain has the smallest houses in europe. There are many 'spare bedrooms' that aren't fit to keep a hamster in. So it may seem houses are under occupied, but most aren't.

Many people in Europe don't even live in houses, small or large. City dwellers tend to live in flats – certainly in central and eastern Europe – and these are often small, and rented.

kinger101

Sapphire wrote: »

Many people in Europe don't even live in houses, small or large. City dwellers tend to live in flats – certainly in central and eastern Europe – and these are often small, and rented.

Most the people from the continent I know who work here comment on how small and poorly maintained the houses are here. Which gets us back to the original problem. It's difficult to find a single bedroom property which has a proper lounge and kitchen, and a two bedroom property which has room for a dining table. That's partly why people buying have more bedrooms than they need.....to get the ground floor space.

antrobus

cepheus wrote: »

...and so it will remain as long as any neo-liberal government remains in power, whatever they are called.

Why, want are you suggesting that some future anti-neo-liberal government should do?

CLAPTON wrote: »

...but we can agree that Monbiot is one the biggest idiots on the planet

That he is.:)