Martin Wicks
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Comment on: Outsourcing model to fund new build
Think of all that money for 'quantitive easing' (handing money to the banks). Why not write off the debt that Councils had to make as a one off payment to the government (was it £13 billion?). Ths would give these Councils millions extra each year since they would not be lumbered with interest charges. With this they would be able to build new homes and put some building workers back to work.
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Comment on: Mixed-up policies
Base policy on real life experience and evidence? Whatever next? In fact pre-Thatcher many Council estates were mixed communities in the sense that you had a wide range of working people living there, from cleaners to teachers, from factory workers to office workers. The decline in the numbers working was the inevitable result of creating a shortage of Council housing by stopping building them.
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Comment on: Councils use new-found freedom to borrow £13bn
It says 3.03% for 30 years and then further on 3.3%. Which is it?
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Comment on: Newbuy scheme launched to back 95% mortgages
They areprepared to subsidise home ownership but they won't subsidise Council housing!
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Comment on: Government raises right to buy discounts
The maths is not difficult is it. Take away one house, add one house, you get an increase of ZERO. Thus, even if there were one for one replacement, which there won't be, that which have zero impact on the housing waiting list.
Shapps the man who wanted Council to put tenants on houseboats can't add up such a simple sum!
Build new Council houses and end the RTB - that's the way to tackle the housing crisis.
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Affordable Rents
There was some confusion over whether the new 'affordable rent' applied only to RSL's. Is it the case that Local Authorities will now be able to charge new tenants 80% of the 'market rent'?
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Posted in: Affordable Rents
There was some confusion over whether the new 'affordable rent' applied only to RSL's. Is it the case that Local Authorities will now be able to charge new tenants 80% of the 'market rent'?