{"id":111992,"date":"2019-10-30T01:34:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/building-a-better-society-with-decent-homes-for-all-letters\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T02:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:07:24","slug":"building-a-better-society-with-decent-homes-for-all-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/building-a-better-society-with-decent-homes-for-all-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a better society with decent homes for all | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIan Bretman, John Worrall, Tom Fyans of CPRE and Susan Major respond to John Harris\u2019s article on housingJohn Harris is absolutely right to highlight housing problems as central to debates about politics and society and to stress the need for more and better public housing as a crucial part of everyone having a decent place to live (The anxieties dividing the nation begin with housing, 28 October).But the housing shortage that forces people to remain in unsuitable or substandard housing, or drives them into homelessness, is just one side of the coin; the other is the expectation that buying property is a one-way, sure-fire bet that delivers exceptional return on investment. Clearly this only happens because the housing market is rigged by various ways of limiting supply and because of the tax incentives given to homeowners and landlords. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Ian Bretman, John Worrall, Tom Fyans of CPRE and Susan Major respond to John Harris\u2019s...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-t8k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50688,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/decent-housing-a-necessity-for-a-healthy-society-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":111992,"position":0},"title":"Decent housing a necessity for a healthy society | Letters","date":"April 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \u201cThere is a lack of political will to fix our broken housing market,\u201d says your leader (28 March). 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