Goodbye Generation Rent, Hello Generation Buy

Goodbye Generation Rent, Hello Generation Buy

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turbobloke

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261 months

Wednesday 7th October 2015
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CMD will tell Conference and the nation in his closing speech later today that he's going to turn Generation Rent into Generation Buy. Something to do with relaxing the rules so developers will no longer be required to build affordable homes for rent, instead they will be able to build low-cost homes for sale at a discount of 20% below market rates.

http://www.itv.com/news/2015-10-07/david-camerons-...

Generation Rent, Generation Buy. Nobody needs to mention her name smile

turbobloke

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Wednesday 7th October 2015
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anonymous said:
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Without single quotes that first sentence would have been something else wink

As to being on the side of ordinary workers, why not - Labour have been spouting the same fiction for years.

turbobloke

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Wednesday 7th October 2015
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CorbynForTheBin said:
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PistonHeads: Name Changes Matter

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turbobloke

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Friday 9th October 2015
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Starter homes will stymie social mobility says The Guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/07/start...

turbobloke

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Friday 9th October 2015
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edh said:
The government is to build 200,000 second houses to help homeowners onto the buy-to-let ladder.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-he...
hehe

"Cameron (hasn't) said: 'Why should students be waking up in their childhood bedrooms when, with a little help from the government, they could be living in a new house bought by their parents and serving as the capricious, cold-eyed landlord to their friends?'"