Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
I'm hard right, but I find little to disagree with here...
Jeremy Corbyn in The Morning Star: Unlocking the door to public housing
... except for the idea about rent controls. If there were loads of easily available social housing at tolerable rents, and no housing benefit for private landlords (both of which he recommends), then rents in the private sector would inevitably adjust downwards, but that's lefties for you.
Posted by mark wadsworth @ 02:49 PM (457 views) Add Comment
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1. mr g said...
"I'm hard right,"
I'm amazed that you haven't been pilloried, lynched and hung, drawn and quartered as yet by some of the more excitable contributors to HPC!
2. powerofnow said...
"I'm hard right"
It'll not matter a jot if we remove the inequity of land monopoly....
[off spectrum]
3. letthemfall said...
Careful - reading the Morning Star can be catching.
There was quite a lot of social housing until that lefty Thatcher govt sold them off.
Housing benefit. I remember when it was introduced in the 80s: rents for student lets soared. Law of unintended consequences.
4. mark wadsworth said...
Mr G, you're the token oldie and I'm the token old-fashioned right winger.
PON, exactly.
LTF, that isn't an unintended consequence, it's a good way of funnelling taxpayers' money to landowners all under the guise of "helping the poorest".