Mark Wadsworth: They own land! Give them money!

Thursday, 3 August 2017

They own land! Give them money!

4 comments:

Bayard said...: Of course, without the myth that extra supply will reduce prices, this would not have been possible.; 3 August 2017 at 19:52
Lola said...: FFS!; 3 August 2017 at 21:39
Contact YPP said...: B, sod that, even if it did, why not just build council-owned housing? They can make it nice and rent it out for full whack, get a lot more money in than zero interest from landowner/developer.

L, yup.; 3 August 2017 at 21:49
Bayard said...: Because "the housing crisis" is about middle class Tory voters not being able to "afford" to live in London, which city is generally a hotbed of nasty Labour supporters in an otherwise correctly-voting South East, and MCTVs don't want to live in social housing.; 4 August 2017 at 07:23

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