{"id":124701,"date":"2022-02-25T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-builds-and-new-rules-will-help-the-uks-trapped-renters-letters\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T01:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:06:35","slug":"new-builds-and-new-rules-will-help-the-uks-trapped-renters-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-builds-and-new-rules-will-help-the-uks-trapped-renters-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"New-builds and new rules will help the UK\u2019s trapped renters | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nKeeley-Jasmine Cavendish calls for a mass construction programme for social housing, while Dr Sue Roberts would like to limit homeownership to local people and David Critchlow says the obstacle to progress is Tory ideologyI read with interest your editorial (21 February) regarding buy-to-let landlords and the injustice faced by renters who are excluded from the prosperity generated by rising property prices and who are funding the comfortable retirements of their landlords.While the suggestion of extending the right-to-buy scheme to the private sector is, at first glance, interesting, sadly this will not assist those who will never be able to afford to purchase a property. How will an individual receiving the minimum wage be able to afford the deposit required by a mortgage lender? Given that the average mortgage is repaid over 25 years, anyone over the age of 40 is likely to be excluded. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Keeley-Jasmine Cavendish calls for a mass construction programme for social housing, while Dr Sue Roberts...<\/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-124701","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-wrj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":144305,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/renters-hopes-of-being-able-to-buy-a-home-have-fallen-to-a-record-low-new-york-fed-survey-shows\/","url_meta":{"origin":124701,"position":0},"title":"Renters' hopes of being able to buy a home have fallen to a record low, New York Fed survey shows","date":"May 6, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The share of renters who believe that they one day will be able to afford a home, fell to a record low 13.4%.\r \r Source : cnbc.com\r Read more...Renters' hopes of being able to buy a home have fallen to a record low, New York Fed survey shows","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":75677,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-give-up-the-home-owning-dream-social-renters-are-just-as-happy\/","url_meta":{"origin":124701,"position":1},"title":"Let's give up the home-owning dream. 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