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Originally Posted by Damien
Well they can by making more people unable to afford their rent. Also home ownership wasn't always unaffordable. It may never have been easy but it wasn't unaffordable. If you saved, budgeted, and worked then most could afford it. Now house prices are increasing far quicker than inflation or wages pricing more and more people out of the market. The amount of people for whom home ownership is now simply impossible, not simply difficult, is rising rather than falling.
This was Labour's fault. It is now also the Conservatives/Liberals fault too. The difference is that last lot were voted out five years ago as voters lost confidence in them and now the reasonability for Governance and the issues we face is at the door of the current lot.
If people lose confidence in them then they'll be voted out too.
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Being able to afford the rent has NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO with eligibility for Housing Benefit. When are people finally going to get that FACT.
As you said in the past people budgeted and saved. They no longer want to do that. Where did they live while they budgeted and saved for a deposit?
The situation started at least 2 years BEFORE 2011, eg 2008. As the report states, the situation seems to be improving.