{"id":50688,"date":"2017-04-03T01:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/decent-housing-a-necessity-for-a-healthy-society-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T01:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T18:38:32","slug":"decent-housing-a-necessity-for-a-healthy-society-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/decent-housing-a-necessity-for-a-healthy-society-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Decent housing a necessity for a healthy society | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u201cThere is a lack of political will to fix our broken housing market,\u201d says your leader (28 March). In fact, there is political will not to fix it, because to offer any degree of stability to today\u2019s nascent and growing families would need more than \u201cflatlining\u201d house prices; it would need prices to fall back to a realistic multiplier of local earnings, which is something this government will not have, as evidenced by the outrageous shovelling of public money to development-sector shareholders through Help to Buy. Related: The Guardian view on house prices: the government lacks the political will to fix the broken market | Editorial Continue reading…
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\u201cThere is a lack of political will to fix our broken housing market,\u201d says your...<\/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-50688","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-dby","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":69192,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/finding-solutions-to-the-uks-housing-crisis-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":50688,"position":0},"title":"Finding solutions to the UK\u2019s housing crisis | Letters","date":"October 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Readers respond to Britain\u2019s chronic shortage of affordable housing with solutions of their ownLarry Elliott suggests five steps to fix the housing market (Britain\u2019s broken housing market \u2013 and how to fix it, 9\u00a0October) which include Kate Barker\u2019s idea of \u201cacquiring\u201d large sites abutting urban areas at a modest\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49857,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-house-prices-the-government-lacks-the-political-will-to-fix-the-broken-market-editorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":50688,"position":1},"title":"The Guardian view on house prices: the government lacks the political will to fix the broken market | Editorial","date":"March 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It has taken only tentative steps towards reforming the land market and improving tenants\u2019 rights. Young people without family wealth will pay the priceIf the price of milk had risen in line with average house prices over the past 40 years, consumers would now be shelling out more than\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":120308,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/to-fix-britains-housing-mess-think-outside-the-box-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":50688,"position":2},"title":"To fix Britain\u2019s housing mess, think outside the box | Letters","date":"February 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r John Worrall on the fundamental shift needed in home ownership philosophy, Barry Jones on community-led housing groups and Duncan Roberts on challenging conventional home ownershipI\u2019m surprised to see Larry Elliott (How to turn the UK\u2019s \u2018generation rent\u2019 into \u2018generation buy\u2019, 7 February) pointing to \u201ctough green belt regulations\u201d and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":97814,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-housing-crisis-slow-progress-and-a-radical-quick-fix-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":50688,"position":3},"title":"Britain\u2019s housing crisis: slow progress and a radical quick fix | Letters","date":"September 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Radhika Bynon, Sheron Carter et al, Stephen Battersby, Joe Burlington, Austen Lynch and Rebecca Reynolds offer their solutionsThe University of York\u2019s analysis on\u00a0the state of the UK private rented sector was shocking, finding that one in three homes in England at the lowest rents are classed as non-decent, with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":111992,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/building-a-better-society-with-decent-homes-for-all-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":50688,"position":4},"title":"Building a better society with decent homes for all | Letters","date":"October 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Ian 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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":43429,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housing-white-paper-raises-more-questions-than-answers-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":50688,"position":5},"title":"Housing white paper raises more questions than answers | Letters","date":"February 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Your article on the government\u2019s housing white paper (English housing market \u2018broken\u2019, Javid admits at launch of white paper, 8 February) highlights many of the issues and hurdles we must overcome if we are to fix the \u201cbroken\u201d housing market. 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