FrustratedTory
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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Rosalind Beck: Punishi... · 0 replies · +1 points
Your assertion that the expansion of the PRS somehow prevented the building of social housing is, well just plain silly. I’d love to hear your reasoning behind that one.
The fact is that the expansion was down to demand, partly because there wasn’t enough social housing being built!! However in terms of owner occupier rates falling, you apparently overlook the massive immigration numbers and also the MMR in 2014.
And then you also ignore the enormous positive effect on the number of dwellings available through activity by landlords and property investors (renovation, sub-division, conversion, new-build, etc). Of course as the sector is about rentals it is not surprising that properties introduced in such a manner will often be for rent and not for purchase. These very actions mean an increase in availability for both.
Nobody is suggesting that an increase in home ownership is a bad thing. What Dr Beck is doing is questioning the methodology behind the intention.
As for your comment about the intention to destroy the PRS being nonsense, I’m not sure if you are referring to the PRS including the BTR division. Leaving them out of the picture then I have to say that the evidence very strongly suggests you are wrong.
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Rosalind Beck: Punishi... · 0 replies · +1 points
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Rosalind Beck: Punishi... · 0 replies · +1 points
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Rosalind Beck: Punishi... · 1 reply · +1 points
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Rosalind Beck: Punishi... · 0 replies · +1 points
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Rosalind Beck: Punishi... · 0 replies · +1 points
3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Rosalind Beck: Punishi... · 11 replies · +1 points
A couple of years ago a landlord friend of mine, totally disillusioned by our Government, offered his tenants to buy their homes at a discount. None were interested with one exception - a single mother of 6 on benefits. As it would have been impossible for her to get a mortgage my friend offered a purchase to her guarantor and met with a flat refusal.
So for these homes to change from rental to owner-occupied, he would indeed need to evict all the families who would then most likely end up at the Council's doors asking for help. It might of course take them a while to actually get to the doors as the queue is so long already.
With so many landlords now selling up (as reported in the trade press) there is going to be a new wave of homelessness, but this will apparently not worry BoJo.
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - David Gauke: A traditi... · 0 replies · +1 points
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - David Gauke: A traditi... · 0 replies · +1 points
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - David Gauke: A traditi... · 0 replies · +1 points