Call for action over lack of new homes being built (From Daily Echo)

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  ohec wrote:
  

  peenut81 wrote: Stop the private landlord swindle, its not sustainable for people who borrowed 'cheap' credit for 20 years,bought extra housing than what they needed, got this country into the financial mess of a debt based economy, now enjoying subsidised interest rates and charging huge rents so they can enjoy a john lewis/M&S/Cunard lifestyle. Mean while the poor suffer high rents and the taxpayer is hit twice. TAX Multiple home ownership!

  I agree with some of your points but taxing multiple home ownership will only drive rents up even more, also a lot of people have bought one extra property to provide a safe investment for their future. The real people that are causing the problems are the ones with the portfolios of houses all mortgaged up to the hilt that are no more than speculating at their tenants expense, but there is no one simple solution to the housing crisis it has taken years to get to this stage and it will take many more to resolve it. Only a mass building program and the gradual demise of the baby boomers will have any effect, the biggest problem is that we are overpopulated now so our population stands a very good chance of growing even more especially when you take into account the fact that a lot of our immigrants are used to having large families.

  The main cause of the increase in population is not 'baby boomers' or immigrants but increased life expectancy, which has increased by 25% in just over 100 years - hence housing shortage, unemployment, pensions crisis etc. Successive governments of ALL parties have ignored what was happening as it is a long term programme and any government only ever has a short lifetime!"
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