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Old 23-09-2015, 12:02   #30
Chrysalis
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Re: Financial watchdog tells the elderly to downsize to tackle housing shortage

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
Even without that many people moving there's enough demand from immigration, shrinking households, and first time buyers using taxpayer guarantees to more than account for the low level of supply.

Nothing a few hundred thousand council houses wouldn't fix but the odds of that?
and bingo.

Here is the true reason we no longer have en masse council housing been built.

It would trash the precious booming housing market.

Funny enough now the lib dems are back in the wilderness they have good policies again as if by magic.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34330676

Selling off council and housing association properties has been extremely damaging.
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