
Chris Town: It’s wrong for Ministers to shift the responsbility for renters in need onto landlords
The best protection for the latter would be Government-guaranteed hardship loans.
The best protection for the latter would be Government-guaranteed hardship loans.
A major part of the problem is high tax rates driven by borrowing for higher education courses that they’d be better off not taking.
Four proposals to help engender a sustainable balance between the rights of landlords and renters.
The next step is for a commission to be established that can develop solutions to the current inequalities we have seen.
By using the new grant as an incentiv those who are looking to buy would be more likely to buy a new build, enabling supply to continue.
One area that has had relatively little attention, but could get much more, is the behaviour of commercial landlords across the country.
The job now needs to be completed by shoring up workers’ incomes and firms’ revenues to as close to 100 per cent as is practical.
Effectively, for much of the population, UBI would merely take their money and then give it back to them. What’s the point?
After crushing Labour last year, it might be tempting to rest on our laurels. But we need to act now to keep the extreme left locked out of Number 10.
If we’re really going solve it and “build better” as Scruton wished then we need massive changes.
Although Brexit is the headline, the spotlight is on a range of measures aimed at schools, the NHS, the police, and the justice system.
Bowman and Westlake’s policy ideas are perfectly compatible with this end, but pitching them as a city and town agenda risks creating a false impression.
In his eyes, you have them only as long as the Government suffers you to have them, and they can be retrospectively taken away if he sees fit.
Landlords in the capital already have lower yields than those elsewhere. Who is going to choose to build homes to rent if there is no return on investment?
Government schemes to promote home buying are not reaching a large part of the population who aspire to own their own homes.