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Post by vlk on Apr 27, 2023 19:37:03 GMT
Renting is arguably financing your landlord but if you don't have a family or anyone to pass your money on when you die then what difference does it make?
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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 27, 2023 20:23:09 GMT
It has come to my notice that for every rental property there are about ten people looking to rent. This is an island, with limited space, and we are FULL. We were a long time ago. Thank you Mr Blair and unlimited immigration, this includes basing the Tories who have done nowt. I went to Tesco in Ely yesterday, there were about fifty immigrants in a group , buying food, cutlery, all the home things, talking god knows what language. All men wearing baseball caps a lot of them. Ilegals, and guess what, you and i are paying for that. The chances of voting tory are nil. Why is buying food wrong? Why is wearing a baseball cap wrong? How do you know they were "illegals"? How do you know that they are on benefits? Or did you just go to Tesco, there were a group of people there, you decided to make all sorts of presumptions and then go and post it on a political forum? Sheesh, this forum plumbs the depths sometimes... Edit: illegals can't vote. illegals cant vote IN ENGLAND, YET. I posted the relevant page from the electoral commission explaining how they can, in wales, for the assembly and councils, and will in england for westminster if labour get in. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 27, 2023 22:07:25 GMT
Now to deal with the thread subject
The problem isn't immigration although that doesn't help
The problem is Thatchers Right to Buy coupled with her denial of any right of the councils forced to sell to replenish stocks. SHE turned this country from a place where council housing was hard to get, to one where it was fucking impossible.
And from a country where it was possible to live on one salary to one where you needed three plus a handout half a wage that went straight into the pocket of the multi millionaire that strung you aling for the rent every month.
Christ i hate that bitch
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Post by Pacifico on Apr 28, 2023 6:50:36 GMT
Right to Buy had no impact on the levels of housing stock and demand - it doesn't matter if the properties were owned by the Council, a Landlord or and individual they still had someone living in them.
Housing costs are set by demand - and with the population growing by 1 million every 4 years of course prices are going to rise.
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Post by walterpaisley on Apr 28, 2023 6:54:36 GMT
Finding an affordable rental property in our town is almost impossible, now.
A good part of this problem is the number of holiday rentals. Almost every house that sells on my road (a charming cobbled street of mill cottages which are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site) is given a silly name and a keysafe at the front door, and winds up listed at £1,500pw for high season.
I currently have one next door, another next door to that, one directly across the road, and a further three within sight of my front door.
We're letting our opposition be known, though: People in our town now display a poster in windows reading "Hotels provide people with jobs - Holiday rentals deprive people of homes".
If we can get the town tagged as "unfriendly" on Trip Advisor, I guess that'll be a job well done.
(And yes - I realise that the late Mrs P and I once had a second home in London, and a - tiny - flat in Paris. The Paris apartment is no more (sold to the builders of the Olympic Village), and the London place - a terraced house which was a bequest - was quickly divided into two flats, one sold immediately, and the other used by a charity as short term emergency accommodation when we weren't using it. And now that's been divested, too..)
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Post by Pacifico on Apr 28, 2023 6:59:24 GMT
AirBnB's are a massive problem in desirable areas. Unfortunately Landlords are driven down that route due to the anti-rent legislation and taxation that has gradually been introduced over the years.
I know several people who have stopped long-term renting and switched to AirBnB just because it makes for an easier life.
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Post by andrewbrown on Apr 28, 2023 7:06:12 GMT
Right to Buy had no impact on the levels of housing stock and demand - it doesn't matter if the properties were owned by the Council, a Landlord or and individual they still had someone living in them. Housing costs are set by demand - and with the population growing by 1 million every 4 years of course prices are going to rise. The reduction in the number of social housing properties has directly led to an increase in rental costs. |
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Post by walterpaisley on Apr 28, 2023 7:07:14 GMT
As bad as it's getting in this corner of Derbyshire, things are worse in Wales. Friends in Harlech are one of only two houses on their road (of, I guess, a dozen houses) NOT listed as holiday property.
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Post by walterpaisley on Apr 28, 2023 7:13:02 GMT
The reduction in the number of social housing properties has directly led to an increase in rental costs. Accepted. And having 750k+ Second Homes, 250k empty houses, and over half a million Airbnb listings certainly isn't helping anyone. |
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Post by Pacifico on Apr 28, 2023 7:15:55 GMT
Right to Buy had no impact on the levels of housing stock and demand - it doesn't matter if the properties were owned by the Council, a Landlord or and individual they still had someone living in them. Housing costs are set by demand - and with the population growing by 1 million every 4 years of course prices are going to rise. The reduction in the number of social housing properties has directly led to an increase in rental costs. There has been a reduction in house building across all sectors - people no longer want mass housebuilding, yet at the same time the population (and thus demand is increasing). So of course the cost of housing is going to rise across the board. |
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Post by sheepy on Apr 28, 2023 7:36:43 GMT
I can see a little irony here, firstly buying homes in idyllic country places to escape the rat race was a good idea then it became a money-making scheme when those who could no longer afford a full-time idyllic bolt hole want a little of the action. It seems a few days of being idyllic no longer comes cheap.
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Post by thomas on Apr 28, 2023 7:55:19 GMT
Right to Buy had no impact on the levels of housing stock and demand - it doesn't matter if the properties were owned by the Council, a Landlord or and individual they still had someone living in them. Housing costs are set by demand - and with the population growing by 1 million every 4 years of course prices are going to rise. The reduction in the number of social housing properties has directly led to an increase in rental costs. right to buy by any measure was and is a disaster of epic proportions as evidenced by various investigations and reports across the uk these past 40 years , so much that it was scrapped much to labour and tory dismay in scotland .
This googled report from scotland and England last year talks about how bad right to buy has been.
The Right to Buy policy in England has become a 'strategic failure' that has exacerbated inequalities in society, a damning review has found.
Paul Dossett, the head of local government at financial services company Grant Thornton, said: “The right-to-buy scheme has been a disaster for the UK taxpayer. The subsequent shortage of social housing has resulted in a hike in rent prices which, when the tenant is a recipient of housing benefit, is also funded by the taxpayer.
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Post by walterpaisley on Apr 28, 2023 7:57:28 GMT
I can see a little irony here, firstly buying homes in idyllic country places to escape the rat race was a good idea then it became a money-making scheme when those who could no longer afford a full-time idyllic bolt hole want a little of the action. It seems a few days of being idyllic no longer comes cheap. The joke in my town being that it's not exactly "idyllic". This isn't some untouched rural paradise - it's a busy, working ex mill town. The rental agencies, though, sell it as "Peak District" (it isn't - although it's not far off), and invariably include selective pictures to sell the place as some Hardyesque time capsule. I'm sure there must be some level of disappointment for those who pay a premium to vacation here. On a more serious level, though, young people here have little hope of leaving home and staying local. I first left home at 16. The boys were both independent at 18. On average, most of the people who work at our cinema (where we pay above the Living Wage) are about 20 - yet I don't think one of them lives out of the family home.. |
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Post by piglet on Apr 28, 2023 11:22:52 GMT
Its because im not an idiot andrew, from your first post. People dont get it, Britain is small, space is at a premium, allowing unfettered immigration is disastrous. Just one young man comes here from god knows where, he has a family. Anyone get that now?
I grew up in Cambridge, anglia is wonderful, i spent 30 plus years in the west midlands from coventry in the south to wolverhampton, its all city, i moved back to anglia to get away from hell. Anglia, the Cambridge area, Ely etc is being built on everywhere, Cambridge is due to be the size of Sheffield soon.
Anyone get it yet? You cant moan about the lack of houses, do you know why?
Because your paving over paradise. The government has house building as a high priority, for gods sake. Just stop immigration, most of it, let the country absorb what weve got which is too much. As for house prices, no one has connected the dots.
Have i succeeded with this post? I dont think so.
Ill spell it out, more people, more competition for housing of all sorts, small island, prices shoot up. Anglia will become another west midlands its inevitable, the country will become a shit hole. As for the charter of human rights, that allows unfettered immigration, if i were prime minister, id give a special live broadcast on every channel, and id have a copy of the charter in my hand. Id show it to the camera, then id drop my cacks and wipe my arse with it.
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Post by sheepy on Apr 28, 2023 13:07:48 GMT
I can see a little irony here, firstly buying homes in idyllic country places to escape the rat race was a good idea then it became a money-making scheme when those who could no longer afford a full-time idyllic bolt hole want a little of the action. It seems a few days of being idyllic no longer comes cheap. The joke in my town being that it's not exactly "idyllic". This isn't some untouched rural paradise - it's a busy, working ex mill town. The rental agencies, though, sell it as "Peak District" (it isn't - although it's not far off), and invariably include selective pictures to sell the place as some Hardyesque time capsule. I'm sure there must be some level of disappointment for those who pay a premium to vacation here. On a more serious level, though, young people here have little hope of leaving home and staying local. I first left home at 16. The boys were both independent at 18. On average, most of the people who work at our cinema (where we pay above the Living Wage) are about 20 - yet I don't think one of them lives out of the family home.. Well on the Brightside, you had to defend your very own created irony, on the other side, it is an ongoing issue that has been as usual getting worse for decades. |
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