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Not sure why I saw this chart and immediately thought of this forum…
Not sure why I saw this chart and immediately thought of this forum…
Home owners buying second homes to rent out is the problem.
This should be taxed out of existence.
Build more? So many parts of the country are suffering problems from flooding, drainage, congestion, loss of green belt that building more and more houses surely isn't the answer?House prices doubling relative to earnings across a time period when society moved from single income families being the norm towards double income families being the norm. Chicken and egg...but there's probably something in that...
It was going to take me many years to save a deposit by myself, meeting a partner and thus doubling the household's income short cut that and got us a mortgage. Very hard to expect single youngsters to manage.
Build more!
I've done it while living abroad and still agree. You can't put toothpaste back in the tube though.
I do agree with much of what you say. It's a proper puzzle. We need to answer questions such as what we want our population to be: what level of birth and immigration do we want, how long are people going to live these days and in future? The UK has grown by more than 10m people in the same timeframe of the graphic.Build more? So many parts of the country are suffering problems from flooding, drainage, congestion, loss of green belt that building more and more houses surely isn't the answer?
So many factors to take into account such as longer living ages, large numbers of immigration, et al. So many huge developments going up everywhere locally is having a detrimental effect on local communities. I don't know what the answer is but I don't agree with just continually building and building new houses.
Have to disagree with this........if you squeeze the tube in a certain way it will "suck " the paste back in.....I've done it while living abroad and still agree. You can't put toothpaste back in the tube though.
I do agree with much of what you say. It's a proper puzzle. We need to answer questions such as what we want our population to be: what level of birth and immigration do we want, how long are people going to live these days and in future? The UK has grown by more than 10m people in the same timeframe of the graphic.
An increasing population is going to need more properties in which to live. We'll also need more land to grow on, more land for infrastructure to support the population, and we all see a need for more open green nature space as well.
We can't satisfy all these priorities, something does have to give. I don't want to concrete over the whole country, certainly not. But I would like to provide more housing stock to the population as part of an answer.
who doesn't love a "desperate 30 something year old woman"!