"Housing Market Slumps"

Windofchange

westernpromise wrote: »

So the state should build houses and sell them cheap to midwives, paramedics, mental health workers and social workers?

Shouldn't the state actually build starter homes, 2-bedroom flats, houses with gardens that they can buy at different career points?

Should they be forced to sell them back to the state as well when they move?

Well we had a go at this with the key worker scheme, but it seems as though the government has given up in favour of other ways to help people get into record levels of debt:

http://www.onlinemortgageadvisor.co.uk/mortgages-for-professionals/mortgages-for-key-workers/

Seems your tongue in cheek idea to help us all out has already failed.

The state should absolutely be building starter homes and this is what they have failed to do one way and another. This is why we have a housing crisis. Let's just screw the paramedics, nurses, physios though hey. How dare they want to buy a 1 bed flat within 50 miles of their work.

Windofchange

Oh look, the property market is working so wonderfully that there is now a specific product to allow mum and dad to bung you 10%.

http://www.barclays.co.uk/mortgages/family-springboard-mortgage

Or at the bottom of the page you could get a help to buy equity loan, shared ownership or even buy with other people.

What's next a government backed 40% loan for a property in London. Oh, wait...

All together now, move along, no massive !!!! storm brewing.

ukcarper

westernpromise wrote: »

But the claim was that there should be places they can buy.

No that's your claim not mine and I don't think anybody has suggested that the government should build houses and sell them cheap to selective groups of people.

economic

ukcarper wrote: »

No that's your claim not mine and I don't think anybody has suggested that the government should build houses and sell them cheap to selective groups of people.

then if you and windofchange think theres a problem what are yout solutions? you both seem angry but at who? windofchange seems to be angry at me but what did i do? i didnt cause prices to rise and keep nurse wages low.

ukcarper

economic wrote: »

then if you and windofchange think theres a problem what are yout solutions? you both seem angry but at who? windofchange seems to be angry at me but what did i do? i didnt cause prices to rise and keep nurse wages low.

No I'm not angry why should I be, I'm just amazed at your lack of compassion and selfishness. If you read what I have written you would see that I can't see any practical solution. But that doesn't mean I have no sympathy for young people trying to buy.

economic

ukcarper wrote: »

No I'm not angry why should I be, I'm just amazed at your lack of compassion and selfishness. If you read what I have written you would see that I can't see any practical solution. But that doesn't mean I have no sympathy for young people trying to buy.

when did i say i did not care? you are assuming too much. this forum is about having a debate. not discussing how we all should feel sorry for nurses that cant afford a decent home to buy.

westernpromise

ukcarper wrote: »

No that's your claim not mine and I don't think anybody has suggested that the government should build houses and sell them cheap to selective groups of people.

It was actually Out Vile Jelly who suggested that the state should build homes and sell them cheap to favoured groups. I am just exploring how that would actually work. Not, it seems.

ukcarper

westernpromise wrote: »

It was actually Out Vile Jelly who suggested that the state should build homes and sell them cheap to favoured groups. I am just exploring how that would actually work. Not, it seems.

He didn't say that in his post.

ukcarper

economic wrote: »

when did i say i did not care? you are assuming too much. this forum is about having a debate. not discussing how we all should feel sorry for nurses that cant afford a decent home to buy.

You give a very good impression of someone who doesn't care.

Windofchange

economic wrote: »

How many homeless people do you see? Not many. So what's the problem?

Oh here we go, off on another tangent. Would you agree seeing one homeless person is one too many? Go on, what's your point?