Houses are affordable!

ukcarper

GreatApe wrote: »

Not everyone makes their living delivering post
If you had £50k of amazon shares 10 years ago they are worth nearly £1 million now
You are probably rolling your eyes at this point thinking who the hell owns amazon share...well surely more people in London than do outside of London! And that is just one example.
London is for the top 1/3rd of wealth and there are lots of wealthy people

Or even more modestly one of my old steelworker friends retired not long ago had a transfer out of his final salary pension and got over £600k very working class man £600k wealth plus owns his own house outright and has some savings and even has a small garage where he mends cars etc. He probably wont touch much of his pension and will end up passing down probably in excess of £800k to his two kids.

There is a lot of wealth in this country and is is spread far and wide

Some old thing, that doesn’t alter the fact that 50% of people working full time in London have no chance of buying a property without help.

ukcarper

Balabalabala_and_Volare wrote: »

Then don't live in the SE if you have to rely on LHA. Simples.

Yes very simple so simple it speaks volumes.

ukcarper

GreatApe wrote: »

Why are the low paid uniquely noble enough to live where they like forever including generation after generation?

I had to move out of kensington why is a postmen entitled to live in a 3 bedroom house in Hackney that cost £1 million?

Because a society needs people of all levels.

GreatApe

ukcarper wrote: »

Some old thing, that doesn’t alter the fact that 50% of people working full time in London have no chance of buying a property without help.

How many better ways do you know how to ration a good than price?

ukcarper

GreatApe wrote: »

London does not need postmen but it does need deliver men but lets say they are both more or less the same.

Is there no one skilled enough in the 2 million residents of London council homes that can deliver post? What about the 60% of owners in London who bought when prices were much much cheaper and have already paid most their mortgages off. None of them can deliver post?

So while London needs people to deliver post it does not need people delivering post to be living in £500,000 homes paid for via housing benefits

I’ve already paid my mortgage off dont expect me to deliver letters.

ukcarper

GreatApe wrote: »

How many better ways do you know how to ration a good than price?

I don’t know any that’s why I think things will not change.

Balabalabala_and_Volare

ukcarper wrote: »

Because a society needs people of all levels.

Then EMPLOYERS should foot the cost.

GreatApe

ukcarper wrote: »

Because a society needs people of all levels.

Ok you are arguing about resolution so at what resolution does that stop?

Does a street with only >£10 million houses need postmen butchers milkmen etc?
What about a block?
What about a ward?

At what resolution does society need people of all levels? Why not one resolution below the one you picked or one resolution above?

Balabalabala_and_Volare

ukcarper wrote: »

I’ve already paid my mortgage off dont expect me to deliver letters.

No-one is expecting you to do anything. But you want your letters delivered. Any reason why you shouldn't cover those costs?

Balabalabala_and_Volare

ukcarper wrote: »

Because a society needs people of all levels.

Needs? Really? Why?