BBC NEWS Politics Is the UK ready for park life?
Excellent! Let’s create ghettos for the poorer demographics. Those who cannot afford to buy a house (and decide they want to do so in the South East) and yet somehow cannot quite relate to the renting idea. What’s wrong with renting anyway? Why, when you earn less than the national average, must you absolutely desperately buy a house? Owning your own home is a luxury, not a necessity!
And so, if this scheme gets government attention we can look forward to our very own UK trailer trash. Filled with people who have somehow fulfilled their national obligation to buy a piece of property that they can’t afford, but still live as if they’re in temporary homeless accomodation. Are we doomed to repeat all of the mistakes of our American cousins? Or just doomed to end up marrying them…
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[shudder]
So now they are proposing caravans?
We’ve already got Ikea selling flatpack wooden houses. And there are all these schemes where you only buy half the property and the local borough owns the other half.
I seem to recall that this used to be called a Council Flat.
But in the New World, you get to pay more for the priviledge.
It’s all well and good for Tone, Presser and those lot who earn a cack load, can afford to buy secondary homes that they then rent out.
But there’s a fundamental disjuncture between the average salary that people earn and the cost of buying a house (even the rental prices are pretty high!).
Only those already on benefit seem to get the option of living in a city (except for those in the Exclusive often fenced Enclaves).
The state of the property market in this country is appalling. >(
Yes you know who you are – all you lawyers, doctors, etc who can’t afford to get on the housing ladder – it doesn’t matter – become a gyppo instead! Problem solved.
Now then what about people who earn even less money? Well they’re okay – they can live on an even newer government housing solution known as ‘The Streets’. Further details coming soon..