The boomers ate all the avocados
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It’s a care home. Maybe they’re worried the Chasey Party will get elected and forcibly move them in there to sell their houses to deserving youngsters.
If you have a meeting in the daytime when those of working age are working chances are objectors will be retired. Also, if it regarding a rural village where all the youngsters have moved out because they have ambition chances are objectors will be old.
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That sort of behaviour will get them on Gove’s Extremist list if they’re not careful.
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Strange that they would protest against their future homes. 🤣
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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I'm just surprised that there is any demand for new churches to be built, a quick Google search found there are already 4 of them in West Moors.
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Worth a read, and I am inclined to agree with much of this. I have argued on previous threads that lack of housing is not the problem, Landlords are the major issue, in terms of available supply and exorbitant rental costs.
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...a market massively subsidised by housing benefit, which doesn't really help those it's supposed to.
It's an interesting read. I'd not really realised that 60% of UK housing stock was once in the hands of private landlords. Put in those terms, it feels like the perfect system to ensure that poorer people without property will remain in poverty, to the benefit of the already-wealthy.
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I endorse this message.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Which people?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The author of the ridiculous 'end of landlords' article.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Never knew he was building houses himself.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Give us the maths then? How many new homes built will end the housing crisis?
When we are talking about housing demand we are essentially talking about people in private rented housing wishing to buy, or people on social housing waiting lists.
No landlords would free up large amounts of housing stock and also bring prices down as demand reduced, private renters now become homeowners. Those on social housing lists are largely in private rentals also. Again, more existing housing stock is free for social housing.
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Nobody suggested that he did.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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There's a fair bit of maths in that thread Rick posted. Also look at what they did in Austin, TX
It's a hole we have been sliding into for decades and it will take years of significant expansion to get back to the number of houses we need but the longer it is put off the more the hole deepens.
Landlords are not the problem. Lack of housing is the problem. Landlords go broke if they don't let.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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A good reminder that I need get my objections in.
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As much as we like to dunk on landlords, renting worked really well in my 20s. I feel like the issues around rentals are much more complex than private landlords bad
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I would very much agree with that. Renting definitely has it's time and place.
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Poorly worded post by Rick, that's all.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I see a bunch of millionaire Boomer women are waiting on an ombudsman decision today because they were cast into poverty by changes in the State pension age. I suspect someone might go apoplectic if they win compensation.
I find it odd that they use the word inequality in their name when the thing they are up in arms about brought their retirement age in line with men.
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this was my first thought, but then they went on to explain that the issue for some was that things like divorce settlements were calculated on the basis that they'd receive state pension from 60
i can see how that could cause hardship for people with limited resources/income, and no way to build any meaningful private pension pot after years/decades of unpaid housewifery
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I think people have been saying that to you for a while.
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Yes, and I've been saying for a while a social security system should stop people ending up destitute.
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How do you feel about people being upset they didn't get a state pension at 60?
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I'm not familiar with their individual cases, but I'm not enormously sympathetic, especially as nowadays, in aggregate, your earning power is at your peak in your 60s and your living costs are likely the lowest in your life.
Most 60 somethings I know are very able and capable, so I don't really think we need to start giving 60 somethings hand outs.
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They're very upset about
not being notified in sufficient timehaving to work longer.0 -
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You've been saying they're millionaires, they're are saying they were pushed into poverty. I'm just confused.
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If my very basic search is correct, the women affected were given at least 15 years notice of the change in state pension age for them (1995 Pension Act, for those born in the 1950s). Given the inequality of women getting a pension five years earlier than men and having a longer life expectancy, as well as the notice given, I'm not terribly sympathetic. Does that make me a terrible person?
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