agree with this and would add that the privatisation of social housing needs to be reversed by abolishing the right to buy before real investment into it can be started
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Silinde@lemmy.world 4 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.
kux@lemm.ee 4 months ago
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 4 months ago
An above average number of MPs are landlords but they’re still a minority in the commons
frazorth@feddit.uk 4 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
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
It’s both