Generation rent

[AlexWilliamsGloves]

Clearly a huge social housing programme is needed.
Buy to let should continue to be made less attractive via tax and stamp duty rises. The government have already made significant moves in this area.
Use of modular housing solutions should be explored as a way to build the quantum of houses we require.
Oh and make developers have a 20% affordable ratio on every development irrespective of viability.

How very left wing, for a tory.

 

[OilBoy2008]

He has lived a life and had affairs etc - many men have. Does not mean he is not the right man to lead the country. Why someone wanting him to be PM has to be on the wum I do not know. No need for the daily mail comment either.

Anyway its going off topic so lets do it in Boris Johnson thread if you so wish.

In terms of the housing issue my opinion which I consider very valid as I make a living in the industry is as follows.

Clearly a huge social housing programme is needed.
Buy to let should continue to be made less attractive via tax and stamp duty rises. The government have already made significant moves in this area.
Use of modular housing solutions should be explored as a way to build the quantum of houses we require.
Oh and make developers have a 20% affordable ratio on every development irrespective of viability.

Did my dissertation topic on how modular buildings should be used to combat the housing crisis. Definitely something that needs to be promoted more within industry, sooner rather than later.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Did my dissertation topic on how modular buildings should be used to combat the housing crisis. Definitely something that needs to be promoted more within industry, sooner rather than later.

Is that like the prefabs in wythenshawe?

 

[worsleyweb]

How very left wing, for a tory.

You can be a tory and still have good social values. I would vole labour at present if they were more middle ground. The country is crying out for a period of a labour government. Sadly this left wing extremist one is unelectable.

 

[twosips]

Lots of old men moaning about young men in this thread.

 

[SilverFox2]

I find it fascinating how a country like Spain has a 78.2% home ownership rate (higher than the UK) yet it's unemployment rate is 13.9%.

In the part of Spain I live in property is cheap but increasing at about 6 percent per anum.
I do as much as I can myself so I notice the big cost saving is in raw materials, say concrete, bricks, etc..

 

[sir baconface]

Not really , the unions were betrayed by many of their own members who fancied a bit of " social mobility " and became working class Tories - these same people now have grandkids getting robbed blind with sky high rents ?? Funny old world !!

And some of them - with Scargill and NUM at the forefront - betrayed their members to pursue their own political ends.

Who are your working class Tories by the way? Property owners? Ones who want to stand on their own two feet? Ones who invested a few bob? How utterly inconsiderate of them.

 

[sir baconface]

Lots of old men moaning about young men in this thread.

Feel free to contribute to the debate.

 

[Meatbag]

Absolutely I do.

Boris and Corbyn should not be mentioned in the same sentence. One is an intellect

FFS!

 

[worsleyweb]

FFS!

Charismatic