workingpoor Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Just a heads up, Panorama tonight about Landlords & HB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamdamosuzuki Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Seems to be targeting what the BBC regards as dodgy ll's. Probably worth watching but the real scandal of our taxes being pissed away on a benefit for the wealthy will no doubt be skirted over. Housing benefit is a national disgrace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blod Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 They'll be no mention of the bubble or the fact that they are one of the parties responsible. Typical of the BBC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Glad to see no-ones pre-judging it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmellow Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Housing benefit should just be removed immediately Yes it will ****** up loads of people over 3-4 years but in the long run its better for everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Looking good so far, smarmy c*ock of a landlord getting doorstepped by a shrill Irish chick, some talk of "vulnerable tenants, ripe for abuse" the MSE boys will be getting hard already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Glad to see no-ones pre-judging it!7 mins in. Tipical BBCheese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timak Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 £600-£900 a month to rent a caravan on Canvey Island?! You can get a decent 3 bedroom house in Cambridge for £950. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havoc Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Scum ripping off the sytem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doomed Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 When do they go and get the politicians who sanction all of this madness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Scum ripping off the sytem The system allows itself to be ripped off.....we are all being ripped off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 £600-£900 a month to rent a caravan on Canvey Island?! You can get a decent 3 bedroom house in Cambridge for £950. Yes, but there is a HOUSING SHORTAGE as they told us more than a couple of times, better lock in that great mortgage deal now or you too could end up sleeping above an open sewer in Camden. Not long now. Come on SNP, bring the doom, BRING THE DOOM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pl1 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Glad to see no-ones pre-judging it! Hehe, that was pretty funny. But.. you can't blame 'em really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Are we really at the stage of US style trailer park living? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Yes, but there is a HOUSING SHORTAGE as they told us more than a couple of times, better lock in that great mortgage deal now or you too could end up sleeping above an open sewer in Camden. Not long now. Come on SNP, bring the doom, BRING THE DOOM! Wouldn't this have the effect of persuading NIMBYs not to be, well, NIMBYs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Are we really at the stage of US style trailer park living? I would say across the country, on a big scale, no, of course not, but the subtext here is that there is a SHORTAGE OF HOUSING! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 The crash is close, you can smell it like a big storm on the wind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olde guto Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 The tide is turning. BTL LL are being lined-up by the TPTB for a good kicking (once they've ditched their property portfolios) in order to placate the masses. There will need to be tax increases after the election and putting the squeeze on LL will be the easiest way. Coupled with the push towards more house building (once again to placate the masses) this could lead to a perfect storm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted April 21, 2015 Author Share Posted April 21, 2015 (edited) Even Clegg's getting in on it wanting to double council tax for 2nd home owners in rural beauty spots, plenty of talk about young people priced out. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32388036 i saw a programme yesterday afternoon some sort of all party debate where developers land banking sites was the hot topic Edited April 21, 2015 by workingpoor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 The tide is turning. BTL LL are being lined-up by the TPTB for a good kicking (once they've ditched their property portfolios) in order to placate the masses. There will need to be tax increases after the election and putting the squeeze on LL will be the easiest way. Coupled with the push towards more house building (once again to placate the masses) this could lead to a perfect storm. And a self righteous hard left wing government disproportionately applying this would be the cherry on the cake. They had their chance for a sensible government to sort this out. Now for the nuclear option. I'm ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agentimmo Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 And a self righteous hard left wing government disproportionately applying this would be the cherry on the cake. They had their chance for a sensible government to sort this out. Now for the nuclear option. I'm ready. Indeed. The coalition kicked the can 5 years down the road when they took the keys to no. 10. Filled the pockets of their backers, the housing barons and builders. Now they stand and wonder why the electorate are shunning them - only 34% in current polls , after they saved us all from Euro Continent-sized unemployment figures. Well, the poor employed in the UK can't buy a house or rent at a decent price. Their Euro cousins, although out of work, are seeing falling house prices and rents going down. As their economies pick up, the capital they earn might go elsewhere than straight into a LL's pocket. Hopefully. People point to Spain and say it's growth figures are looking up - sure, they started from a very low base it was harder to drop much lower. But they have had their HPC and it's still ongoing. Longer term, the average Spaniard should be fine. Their country hasn't been swallowed up and dropped into an abyss, depsite the scare articles the UK media ply regulary. Deflating UK house prices in 2010 should have been a priority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoldTooSoon Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 £600-£900 a month to rent a caravan on Canvey Island?! You can get a decent 3 bedroom house in Cambridge for £950. Does anyone seriously believe the market could support this kind of rent level for a sh1tty static caravan in Canvey Island if the whole system wasn't being underpinned by the largesse of the taxpayer vis Housing Benefit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darwin Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Just a heads up, Panorama tonight about Landlords & HB On the iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05s99p1/panorama-the-great-housing-benefit-scandal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyboy1973 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Deflating UK house prices in 2010 should have been a priority. The thing that really gets me about this govt is that the housing market was doing fine when they got in. It was dropping, but not crashing and by now it would probably be where it needs to be - something like 30% lower than today would be my guess, maybe a little more. The Tories wouldn't have got the blame (the GFC and Labour would have taken that), and people could be getting on with their lives. Instead we got HTB and all the other stuff, which some people have put at a 36% boost to prices. All, IMO, in an attempt to engineer a boom and a second term with no long term thought for the economy. Precisely the opposite, in fact, of what Conservative economics are supposed to be about and I really hope it has backfired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timak Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Does anyone seriously believe the market could support this kind of rent level for a sh1tty static caravan in Canvey Island if the whole system wasn't being underpinned by the largesse of the taxpayer vis Housing Benefit? Exactly, or the council could take the £2m a year it was paying to rent these caravans and use it to pay the interest on a £50m 4% bond. Use that £50m to build 1000 new decent homes on agricultural land bought at agricultural prices. Pay off the £50m by RTB 25% of the houses at market rates over the next 20 years. Jobs a good un. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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