Property News · March 7, 2018

'We said it wasn't acceptable': how Bristol is standing up to developers


With little social housing and a property price explosion, campaigners and councillors are taking back controlHousing crisis: 15,000 new Manchester homes and not a single one ‘affordable’When former legal adviser Kerry Mead, 41, split from her partner and needed a home to rent with her two children, Sammy, 9, and Ruby, 6, she realised a seismic shift had occurred in Bristol’s housing market.She could no longer afford to live near her children’s school, despite earning a £26,000 salary at the time. It then took six months to find a landlord willing to have her as a tenant – “because I’m a single mother or, as they put it, a single-income family,” she says – and when she finally saved enough for a deposit on a shared ownership property, the same thing happened with mortgage brokers. “The mortgage plus rent would be less than the rent I’m paying currently – but they said I couldn’t afford it, even though I’ve never missed a month’s rent.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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