{"id":134402,"date":"2023-02-05T16:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T09:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/exorbitant-house-prices-dont-just-hurt-the-young-they-are-a-blight-on-all-our-lives-will-hutton\/"},"modified":"2023-02-05T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T09:43:02","slug":"exorbitant-house-prices-dont-just-hurt-the-young-they-are-a-blight-on-all-our-lives-will-hutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/exorbitant-house-prices-dont-just-hurt-the-young-they-are-a-blight-on-all-our-lives-will-hutton\/","title":{"rendered":"Exorbitant house prices don\u2019t just hurt the young. They are a blight on all our lives | Will Hutton"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSteps to change an unfair landscape include ending right to buy, taxing residential property at today\u2019s prices and building vital social housing\u201cHousing policy is killing British civilisation,\u201d said my interlocutor. \u201cRight to buy has been a social catastrophe, making today\u2019s generation pay for the earlier generation\u2019s bonanza of buying their council house on the cheap \u2013 the stock has collapsed because the homes were not replaced. There is too little or no affordable housing or rents in great parts of the country where young people can start or bring up a family.\u201cIt is already hitting the birthrate. Forget building a quarter of a million houses a year rising to 300,000: it is not going to happen with the new planning rules that enthrone the nimbys. This country so safeguards the interests of the old and the equity in their houses, it is literally killing off its future.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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