{"id":149342,"date":"2025-02-02T23:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-labour-can-make-homes-more-affordable-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T00:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T17:06:48","slug":"how-labour-can-make-homes-more-affordable-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-labour-can-make-homes-more-affordable-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"How Labour can make homes more affordable  | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nPuncturing this Ponzi scheme is the only way, writes John Worrall. Starmer doesn\u2019t have the guts, says Stan Collins. And Rob Harris doesn\u2019t want to see capital gains tax applied to his homeGeorge Monbiot (Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market, 26 January) hits several nails on the head, but the most pivotal is his hunch that ministers \u201care intelligent people pretending not to be for political reasons\u201d.In a housing market bloated by financialisation after a decade and a half of interest rates close to zero, ownership prospects have been increasingly confined to those inheriting property wealth, and the only way that will change within the mortgageable years of the current unendowed cohort will be through the puncturing of this Ponzi scheme by government intervention. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/feb\/02\/how-labour-can-make-homes-more-affordable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Labour can make homes more affordable  | Letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Puncturing this Ponzi scheme is the only way, writes John Worrall. 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