Mucca Mad Boys
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Yet refuses to set a target of when to meet the 3% defence spending… does anyone take anything he says seriously?
Your time is here for the war enthusiasts
Not any more - if you are on Universal Credit, you get your rent paid to you as well "so that it teaches people how to manage their money". Yeah manage it away on fags, booze, bookies, Sky TV and huge mobile costs! Potentially, anyway.It always used to be housing benefit was paid direct to landlord social housing or private
It’s yet more posturing and empty rhetoric.Yet refuses to set a target of when to meet the 3% defence spending… does anyone take anything he says seriously?
The talk of “war-fighting” is almost certainly done with the US in mindProbably the USA
Even if it was real, how is funding big companies billions to build weapons to fight yesterday's war a good idea? Russia has just had its air bombers of the kind built by BAE blown up by drones
It’s yet more posturing and empty rhetoric.
Yet refuses to set a target of when to meet the 3% defence spending… does anyone take anything he says seriously?
Not any more - if you are on Universal Credit, you get your rent paid to you as well "so that it teaches people how to manage their money". Yeah manage it away on fags, booze, bookies, Sky TV and huge mobile costs! Potentially, anyway.
Even if it was real, how is funding big companies billions to build weapons to fight yesterday's war a good idea? Russia has just had its air bombers of the kind built by BAE blown up by drones
Where have I said that war is a made up capitalist construct? Who is Britain at war with?Because the air bombers were doing serious damage. Drones are a big deal but they’re not the only thing you need.
Which is it? Has war changed or is war a made up capitalist construct?
Where have I said that war is a made up capitalist construct? Who is Britain at war with?
But I think we should try and trust people should we not? Which is why I think it's fine to have it paid to the claimant but then get it direct to the landlord if they fall a couple of months behind. Gives the claimant the chance to show responsibility but then takes it away if they aren't.Not any more - if you are on Universal Credit, you get your rent paid to you as well "so that it teaches people how to manage their money". Yeah manage it away on fags, booze, bookies, Sky TV and huge mobile costs! Potentially, anyway.
So a supply and demand issue has nothing to do with a small number of people hoovering up the supply for an income stream, and thus increasing the cost because they want to profit?I don’t think caps of this nature are ever a good idea.
The root cause of the ‘housing crisis’ is not because of landlords. It’s a supply and demand issue and we have systematically been unable to keep up with the increased demand for more houses that comes with a rapidly expanding population.
Successive governments have tried various approaches to meet the 300,000 house building targets and all have failed.
So a supply and demand issue has nothing to do with a small number of people hoovering up the supply for an income stream, and thus increasing the cost because they want to profit?
Residential properties should only be allowed to be owned by people and each person should only be able to own the equivalent of one home (i.e 100% of one house, 50% of two etc.) For a lot of the landlords it wouldn't be much of a problem as they'd just have the houses put in the names of family members.
As are public services.'War-fighting readiness' is a bit over dramatic and not helping things. But it's clear the armed forces is in a dire state.
The Gen Z gender pay gap has reversed - so what’s up with boys?
For the first time in history, many young women are out-earning their male peers. As boys lag behind in education and employment, Ben Bryant reports on how this signals a deeper crisis in masculinitywww.independent.co.uk
Not really a suprise is it.
Where have I said that war is a made up capitalist construct? Who is Britain at war with?
When men earn more than women, it’s the ‘patriarchy’ but as the roles reverse, the headline is ‘what’s up with men?’
There are a lot of empty properties.Landlords have no bearing on the overall housing stock. The issue this country faces is that there’s a huge ‘deficit’ because the rate of which houses are built is not keeping up with the number of people that need houses. This fundamental issue would remain even if second home ownership was banned completely. If there’s not enough houses, prices become inflated.
You can accuse landlords of profiteering if you want (respectfully disagree), that’s only possible if there’s a general lack of housing provision. Ironically, some of the newer regulations and costs with being a landlord has pushed out private landlords and the sector has become more corporatised and more profit-driven.
There are a lot of empty properties.
Show me where you get those 'facts' from.There are fewer empty properties as a percentage than most comparable countries and they aren’t where people want to live. Unless you’re planning on forced relocation to Hull or the middle of Wales wherever.
There are a lot of empty properties.
There are over 14,000 "second homes" and more than 11,000 "holiday lets" in Cornwall, which cannot be far short of what the unmet housing need for that part of the world for the foreseeable future (4,421 new builds per year, according to the new government methodology for determining build rate).There’s a shortage of 1.5m houses and that number is increasing. There aren’t that many houses left empty.
Where there are empty houses, they don’t tend to be in places that people want to live in as the areas tend to be places with high levels of economic inactivity.
Even in London, where the super rich have unoccupied properties, these aren’t properties that many could afford on the open market.
The fundamental issue remains that there aren’t enough houses being built to match the demand.
There are over 14,000 "second homes" and more than 11,000 "holiday lets" in Cornwall, which cannot be far short of what the unmet housing need for that part of the world for the foreseeable future (4,421 new builds per year, according to the new government methodology for determining build rate).
There are over 14,000 "second homes" and more than 11,000 "holiday lets" in Cornwall, which cannot be far short of what the unmet housing need for that part of the world for the foreseeable future (4,421 new builds per year, according to the new government methodology for determining build rate).
How many jobs are in that area? The local of economies of Wales, Cornwall and other seaside towns is dominated by tourism. There’s not many high skilled, high paying jobs.
Wales has tried cracking down on second homes. All it’s done is damage the local economy without helping people get on the property ladder because the locals often don’t have money to purchase the houses.
The second homes/unoccupied building issue is a side show to the wider picture to be honest. My personal view is that as things stand, we’re unable to build the houses to keep up with the growing population and that is mostly driven by net migration.
Until a government can actually beat their target of 300k houses per year, there’s nothing to suggest the country can sustain net migration levels of 400-500k per annum.
Ok so you come at it primarily as a demand-side issue, which is fine, but what do you think is creating the supply-side issue(s)?
Not sure needed they definitely do bring spending into the areaSecond homes are needed to generate spending in that area
I get your point but equally landlords snapping up houses does cause issues. When I wanted to move from renting to owning it took 2 years to find somewhere in the area I wanted to live, well less wanted to and more needed to due to parental caring responsibilities.Landlords have no bearing on the overall housing stock. The issue this country faces is that there’s a huge ‘deficit’ because the rate of which houses are built is not keeping up with the number of people that need houses. This fundamental issue would remain even if second home ownership was banned completely. If there’s not enough houses, prices become inflated.
You can accuse landlords of profiteering if you want (respectfully disagree), that’s only possible if there’s a general lack of housing provision. Ironically, some of the newer regulations and costs with being a landlord has pushed out private landlords and the sector has become more corporatised and more profit-driven.
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