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Graeme Wall

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(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:53:10 GMT, "Grumpy Old Man"
wrote:

The only way to get good, spacious, affordable housing in Britain is to
have a smaller population. It's gone up 50% in the past hundred years.

There is that. The other option would be to become more like Germany
and less London-centric. Serious tax breaks for locating employment
in a city other than London would be a good start, and the Government
should seriously look towards any new civil service jobs that don't
*have* to be in London being somewhere else instead.

They've been trying that since the 1950s at least, works well doesn't it?

The other problem (the "affordable" bit) is that houses should be to
live in, not to invest in.

If you want to rent somewhere to live someone else has to invest in buying it
in the first place.

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