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Young people turning their backs on homeownership
Is the Great British love affair with homeownership drawing to a close? With loans for first-time buyers drying up and only those with access to the Bank of Mum and Dad able to get on the property...
View ArticleCan you afford to be selfish?
Does being able to afford something means you become inherently selfish? It seems that this is what happens when it comes to homeowners as the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit’s latest survey...
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How did we get into such a mess?
How the hell did this happen? According to research today by Knight Frank, nine out of ten UK households are potentially eligible for state aid to cover their housing costs. With most shared ownership...
View ArticleGovernment admits failure, sort of
The government is building council houses again so is this an admission that thirty years of housing policy has failed? The government announced to much fanfare yesterday that work has begun on...
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Tesco towns on the way
Given the need for more affordable housing, Tesco’s plans to develop four “mini-villages” in South East England reported in The Times might seem like welcome news. The schemes will provide hundreds of...
View ArticleWhere are all the houses going to go?
How can the government square the circle between lowering housing density and protecting green belt land? That’s the question I’ve been mulling over since I read yesterday’s Telegraph article which...
View ArticleThe myth of home ownership
Should politicians be peddling the idea that everyone should own their own home? Vincenzo Rampulla, the National Landlords Association’s public affairs manager wrote the following piece yesterday on...
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Channel Four reports on housebuilding concerns
Channel Four News last night ran a piece on housebuilding targets as its top story… The piece, on the scrapping of the NHPAU and the coalition’s plans to boost housing numbers, pipped William Hague,...
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Pathfinder in limbo
Channel Four news ran a thoroughly depressing piece on the fate of the Pathfinder housing renewal scheme last night. Whether or not you agree with the Pathfinder methods, since funding for the...
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Are we all NIMBYs now?
The public’s contradictory attitude to housing has been laid bare today in a YouGov poll… The survey commissioned by the New Homes Marketing Board (NHMB) revealed that more than eight in ten people (81...
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