Saturday, May 16, 2009
We want more bang for our buck!
BBC News: Homes Rejected for Social Housing
Article explaining how housing associations are rejecting the purchase of many of the 100,000 empty new build properties lying dormant in the UK as their build quality is just not up to scratch. We build the smallest houses of any developed nation - by far (even though our population density is much less than Japan and the Netherlands - Thanks WolframAlpha for that!)
Posted by hammered @ 10:54 AM (515 views) Add Comment
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1. buctootim said...
I was brought up in a 1950s 3 bed council house. To get the same amount of space we had in a new build, you would have to pay £350,000 plus in this area. Something wrong surely?
2. inbreda said...
makes me laugh. All those BTlers that bought city centre flats will now find the prices dropping even faster either because the next door neighbours are on the social, or because they are empty and it's an obvious sign that the build quality was rubbish.
Shouldna bought off plan lookin fer a quick buck, eh!
3. tenant super said...
"All those BTlers that bought city centre flats will now find the prices dropping even faster either because the next door neighbours are on the social"
Yes, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8044967.stm
4. peeping tom said...
When these things were being built it was obvious that they would end up as tomorrow's slums today.
5. Teresagreen said...
Indeed peeping tom, I remember people's predictions as much as two years ago on this site stating exactly that!