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Originally Posted by Carth
People having to pay 'exorbitant' rent isn't the fault of the people paying their wages.
High rent is the 'supply & demand' of the rental housing market.
Do you not think that road sweepers, shop assistants, bus drivers etc etc are paying rents out of proportion to their wages?
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Indeed, but carries through to decisions made based on the employment opportunities available. If a nurses salary isn’t competitive people will do something else.
However rather than pay the going rate, determined by supply and demand, the Government wants to plug the gap with foreigners!
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Originally Posted by nomadking
Nurses argued for degree level training, so why should they be subject to student loans in the same way as students in other subjects are? As Martin Lewis keeps trying to point out, most students pay little or nothing off their student loans. They are not loans in the general context.
Under the "supply and demand" principle, aren't those higher rents a result of having enough people that can pay them? If there weren't enough people who could afford it, the rents would have to drop.
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Our entire point is that other employment opportunities (e.g. those that can pay the rent or get a mortgage) are better. However rather than pay the rate to attract people we are going to import labour and exacerbate the housing crisis. I didn’t see that on the side of a bus.
“Drive down wages, drive up living costs.”