Norm Tovey-WalshJun 30, 2024
Jenny List

I'm not seeing a credible solution to Britain's housing crisis from any of the parties. It's all "Here, have more unsustainable debt", or "It's the immigrants' fault", as they pander to elderly NIMBYs.

When I see a party that will tax second homes and buy to lets into oblivion, control rents, come down hard on dodgy landlords, rebuild the social housing stock, and build build build like it's 1948, then I will sit up and take notice.

Until then, my country has nothing to offer me.

Jun 30, 2024 at 5:11amMastodon for Android
Show threadDavid HonessJun 30, 2024
@JennyList yeah couldn't agree with this more, I would like to see legislation that actually stops someone owning more than two residential properties. The only trouble with this is that it would cause a house price crash as all the existing properties tied up by serial landlords come onto the market. That would then mean negative equity for some people who just bought recently, so it might be they would have to do something clever with the Bank of England to write off negative equity.
Show threadBen HutchingsJun 30, 2024
@JennyList The Lib Dems and the Greens each put some of these in their manifestos, but I think you're right that they haven't gone far enough
Show threadJenny ListJun 30, 2024

@bwh very much so.

I think all the parties suffer a bit from being the kind of people who have rental properties and second homes, in their top echelons. They simply don't understand the scale of the problem.