London Rabbit Hutches

Herzlos

sleepymans wrote: »

Once the residents move a partner in....and the inevitable offspring come along, then these tiny places will turn into little more than slums....and the demand for bigger social housing will be even greater.....shudders

Obviously they won't be any use for people with kids, but there's nothing stopping people selling up to have kids, like they'd do in any other property that's too small.

I think they could certainly be onto something especially if they make some communal space/facilities available too, like laundry rooms, residents lounges, gym, pool, etc. Like uni dorms, but for adults, at a slightly higher quality.

Plenty of people who currently buy/rent properties much more expensive in the area but are only there 3-5 days a week could easily downgrade and then there would be a lot more availability for bigger places and associated price impact.

Mr.Generous

I wonder how many sq mtrs a caravan is? 20 maybe?

kabayiri

Not very inventive in design are they?

The bed does not need to take up floor space all the time, for example.

When you get Kirsty in from Location, Location, Location....what does she say now? Her stock "if you knock this wall down" response no longer works !

Windofchange

economic wrote: »

if people buy these small flats then obviously these people dont have an issue.

you seem to be saying there should be affordable housing for everyone to buy and the housing has to be a decent size and in a decent area. you are seriously deluded.

Yeah, it's a far fetched crazy idea I'll give you that all this affordable decent housing. Let's pile the young into your old office cubicle and charge them £200k for the privilege. Fetch my cigar and whisky old boy.

kabayiri

sleepymans wrote: »

Once the residents move a partner in....and the inevitable offspring come along, then these tiny places will turn into little more than slums....and the demand for bigger social housing will be even greater.....shudders

The walls might be so thin, that any ideas of noisy baby making are put firmly on hold!

Windofchange

GreatApe wrote: »

blerb outrage etc

Yup, we all did the student thing. I did it twice. Similar experience I'm sure to everyone - rats running around and able to touch the walls with both hands if I stood in the middle of the room.

I'm not attempting to dictate what people do with their money, it's just the London housing market never ceases to amaze me. Look, you can now use nationwide's new mortgage to allow all your family members to remortgage their home to help you buy your own 16sqm of London.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-4338768/Nationwide-mortgage-help-family-members-buy-property.html

I don't know how there haven't been more riots in all honesty.

economic

Windofchange wrote: »

Yeah, it's a far fetched crazy idea I'll give you that all this affordable decent housing. Let's pile the young into your old office cubicle and charge them £200k for the privilege. Fetch my cigar and whisky old boy.

again you assume they are forced to buy. they dont have to. you also think the young are entitled to buy a good sized property. you are very silly.

Conrad

Windofchange wrote: »

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I don't know how there haven't been more riots in all honesty.

What would your solution be?


Don't say something all abstract of the sort that gets bovine audiences applauding such as 'I believe everyone is entitled to a good quality home at an affordable price', as this is never going to happen and if it did even more immigrants would pile into Britain in search of a subsidised quality home


I hate the way so many green spaces I grew up with are being turned into new homes sites.


Turning agricultural land into property has another cost - food insecurity - you'd be the first to bemoan politicians if we had serious pandemic or war and found we could not import enough of our food need and remember importing adds to global emissions and deprives impoverished nations of food.


So, what is you practical real world solution that does not involve us adding to our £1.7 trillion national debt or turning much of England into a congested hell hole?


I find much of England heaving in congestion - and yes am well aware we still have lots of open space but again this is needed for food and some for wildlife and giving us all a green and pleasant balance to our sterile manmade lives

Windofchange

Conrad wrote: »

What would your solution be?


Don't say something all abstract of the sort that gets bovine audiences applauding such as 'I believe everyone is entitled to a good quality home at an affordable price', as this is never going to happen and if it did even more immigrants would pile into Britain in search of a subsidised quality home


I hate the way so many green spaces I grew up with are being turned into new homes sites.


Turning agricultural land into property has another cost - food insecurity - you'd be the first to bemoan politicians if we had serious pandemic or war and found we could not import our food needs


So, what is you practical real world solution that does not involve us adding to our £1.7 trillion national debt?

I don't think there is one other than letting this play out the only way it will with a fall in prices. We're just in the end throws of another cycle. Boom, bust, boom, bust - as it always has been, as it always will be.

Interesting you should raise the national debt concern too. I see 100% mortgages are sneaking back in too since we learned our lesson in 2008.

Windofchange

economic wrote: »

again you assume they are forced to buy. they dont have to. you also think the young are entitled to buy a good sized property. you are very silly.

No I don't. Where have I assumed anyone is forced? I simply posted an article highlighting the latest way to pack em dense and pack em high. All you can do in return is misread everything and call me silly.