Pretty depressing reading.

[Edit] I had the archive link as a comment but this has gained enough traction that it’s not obvious. Here it is again so you don’t have to give FT any clicks https://archive.is/ypkln

  • Silinde@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    5 months ago

    Until we:

    • Ban buy-to-let mortgages.
    • Ban landlords from owning multiple houses.
    • Invest into social housing and ban so-called “affordable housing” lettings.

    We’ll continue to be stuck in this downward spiral.

    The problem is, everyone in power is a landlord or otherwise benefits from the current system, so nothing changes and we continue circling the drain as a society.

    • frazorth@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      We need to build more because this is about a Shelter piece on people having to live as families in a single hotel room rotating locations.

      We aren’t even at the point of private landlords being the problem and preventing people from buying, as there simply aren’t enough houses for people

    • kux@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      agree with this and would add that the privatisation of social housing needs to be ended by abolishing the right to buy before real investment into it can begin