{"id":62457,"date":"2017-08-01T18:21:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T11:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-corrupted-housing-market-needs-more-than-a-lick-of-paint-abi-wilkinson\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T18:34:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T11:34:24","slug":"britains-corrupted-housing-market-needs-more-than-a-lick-of-paint-abi-wilkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britains-corrupted-housing-market-needs-more-than-a-lick-of-paint-abi-wilkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s corrupted housing market needs more than a lick of paint | Abi Wilkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe latest bad sign is that landlords are increasingly refusing to take under-35s as tenants. Radical change is needed to remove the profit motive from the market\u2022 Abi Wilkinson is a freelance journalistHere\u2019s a simple (but in the current climate, seemingly radical) idea: the purpose of homes is for people to live in them. As long as we have buildings standing empty, there should be nobody sleeping on the streets, in hostels or flitting between friends\u2019 sofas, being careful not to remain in the same place for too many nights and finding they\u2019ve outstayed their welcome. As long as we have the capability to build more good-quality properties, nobody should be bedding down in poorly converted garages and sheds, or sharing family homes with more than 20 other people.Children shouldn\u2019t develop asthma, allergies and respiratory problems because the room they sleep in has damp and mould crawling up the walls, and because their parents are too scared to push the landlord to fix it for fear of being evicted. There should never have been a Grenfell Tower disaster. As one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it is within our capabilities to treat safe, secure housing as a basic right \u2013 not a luxury, denied to vast swaths of the population. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/aug\/01\/britains-housing-market-landlords-tenants-under-35-profit\" target=\"_blank\">Britain\u2019s corrupted housing market needs more than a lick of paint | Abi Wilkinson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The latest bad sign is that landlords are increasingly refusing to take under-35s as tenants.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-62457","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-gfn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87939,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/entrepreneurs-of-the-week-aqeeds-hadi-radwan-and-rachid-abi-nader\/","url_meta":{"origin":62457,"position":0},"title":"Entrepreneurs of the Week: Aqeed&#039;s Hadi Radwan and Rachid Abi Nader","date":"May 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r UAE-based Aqeed offers a one-stop shop insurance brokerage that is powered by the latest technology - and now it seeks regional coverage\r \r Source : arabianbusiness.com\r Read more...Entrepreneurs of the Week: Aqeed's Hadi Radwan and Rachid Abi Nader","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134344,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/multimillionaire-graham-wilkinson-selling-23-8m-queenstown-mini-golf-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":62457,"position":1},"title":"Multimillionaire Graham Wilkinson selling $23.8m Queenstown mini golf site","date":"February 1, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Wilkinson wants to concentrate almost solely on retirement village assets.\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Multimillionaire Graham Wilkinson selling .8m Queenstown mini golf site","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":52239,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cool-homes-warm-welcome\/","url_meta":{"origin":62457,"position":2},"title":"Cool home&#039;s warm welcome","date":"April 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Darren Wilkinson has a passion for mid-century properties so when he saw this 1960s beauty by architects Thorpe, Cutter, Pickmere and Douglas he threw everything into owning it.That was just over two years ago and Darren has wrestled...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Cool home's warm welcome","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":54817,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/government-migrant-crackdown-punishes-children-abi-brunswick\/","url_meta":{"origin":62457,"position":3},"title":"Government migrant crackdown punishes children | Abi Brunswick","date":"May 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Our charity works with migrant families facing destitution and the prospect of their children having to sleep on night buses or in police stationsWhen the government first introduced its plans to create a \u201chostile environment\u201d for migrants, the rhetoric was about immigration control, rather than making people homeless. 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