Housing for the poor?

[janee]

There is very little public funding. However, housing associations have plenty of reserves to develop. Without public funding though, it just isn't enough.

 

[looney]

Tax buy-to-let landlords up to the eyeballs so they all discard their 'investment portfolios' and free up the housing for those that need it. Obviously.

Although I agree with you that wont solve the shortage.

 

[surrey jim]

People follow jobs, not the other way around.

See my post #11

 

[Westdene Seagull]

as landlords are not interested in these types

You clearly don't understand being a landlord then !

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

People follow jobs, not the other way around.

Not in Brighton they don't. DFL's follow property prices down here, then clog up the trains to their old jobs in London.

 

[beorhthelm]

We need to subsidies the building of new homes not the paying of rent it's just more cost effective. We need to tax planning gain and incentivize use of urban empty land however small

argh, no! why penalise those agents of change? and this is contradictary anyway, subsidies building but tax the increase value of land, but then incentivise small (ineffcient or ineffective) development? this will not help at all. the reason we are where we are is several decades of trying to restrict or contain every single development. if you want change, then allow change.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Exactly.

There are 800,000 empty houses in the UK

Problem is, most of them are in places no one currently wants to live.

Dodgy council estates per chance?

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Tent and a pitch on the north Cornish coast, beautiful views and great surf

 

[fat old seagull]

To be honest though, isn't your question subjective? Like the capital has tiny multi-million pound garages for sale, which could be better spent on a large detached mansion in the Cotswolds.

Is it alright if I blame Tony Blair's government for relaxing legislation to allow and encourage migrants to come here and steal our houses?

Mmmm .... I smell another Party Political thread about to start.

 

[severnside gull]

Mmmm .... I smell another Party Political thread about to start.

Few who've jumped on the UKIP bandwagon on here for sure