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Good link Lynne. Ref. financial incentives to increase occupancy - how about an incentive by modest inheritence tax relief if you can demonstrate high occupancy in a privately owned house that you live in. Gets around the old kernel of retired people saying that higher council tax bands are unfair because they may be property rich but cash poor? The payback for the gov't getting less in ...
@Lynne - yes 'bedroom tax' does ring a bell - may well be a 'tory waterloo' at some point. The type of under occupancy I had in mind is where one or two retired people (I can thing of many examples I personally know) who live in 3, 4, 5 bedroom houses. Obviously their private perogative entitles them to live in a 10bedroom house, own multiple properties etc if they so anti-socially please. ...
@leatash - because we have an island mentality - everyone wants their own moat? greed - no one wants to 'miss out' every time they hear prices are 'on the up'? It's true what you say about landlords wanting good tenants - they always used to virtually beg me to stay on!! In Germany they have an expression called 'Ordnung' where everything is orderly and proper, a bit like your arrangements. ...
I can see the motivations and pressures specific to this country to want to have your own castle and nest egg instead of flushing money away on rent. It does however also play into a number of other social issues such as families being less likely to care for their elderly (for example) due to ring fencing of living into nuclear pods, and under occupancy of houses fuelling the shortage.
'Metro' today - 'SAFE AS HOUSES ... UNLESS YOU RENT - Tenants are facing the worst eviction crisis in ten years as surging numbers of landlords try to force them from their homes. 'Generation rent' is living on a financial knife-edge, charities warned, after figures showed that 47,220 possession claims were lodged by lamdlords in the first three months of the year. More than a quarter of ...
Whoah, that really is a once in a lifetime event not to be missed and never to be repeated again after this summer. Was curious how a Lancaster is going to be able to fly across the Atlantic. The answer is simple. It has overnight stops in Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland - all very sensible indeed with each leg of the journey being around half its potential range.
- Back in '86/'87 I clearly recall colleagues at work complaining that it was not at all unusual for several 'friends' to club together to afford a property ! In fairness, I think the issue then was that you could 'only' borrow 3x the salary of a singleton or around 2x a maried joint income. - 'Nice Mr Carney', has quite wisely in my opinion, introduced (April) forensic examination of incomes ...
Probably THE most positive thread I have read and says volumes about the community spirit of Dawlish. I do so hope the momentum continues apace.
@Lynne - anything i read in the newspapers i always view very sceptically indeed, with the ft finding me possibly the least sceptical. Nevertheless, I have heard the 80million population quoted quite often so have come to believe in that figure as being perfectly possible. As for the vision of sardines in a can, try the LU anytime of the day or even suburban trains at 9 or 10pm in the ...
p.s. 'I have a friend' whose niece was born in England ('ethnic English' parents, grand parents, great grand parents etc) moved to France as a child, now a French national, given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Father from ex. African colony. Does that make said baby black/white, African, French, European, English or all of the above? Don't ask me, just one example of how the world has become a ...
