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Post by Zany on Jul 6, 2024 8:57:05 GMT
What' s the first thing this government should do.?
What's the most effective thing the government could do?
For me its release land for building. This reduces house prices, then mortgages, rents, business rents. It takes money from the landed and shares it out. It boosts the economy as people have more in their pockets, you could even moderately increase taxes. It frees up money for investment by taking away the easy guaranteed investment of house building, It reduces prices as business sees costs fall ( Business rent has kept pace with house rent BTW)
If you want to short cut this you could always tax the money lenders, but they would just increase their prices because they have a monopoly on supply and demand.
Your thoughts.
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Post by dappy on Jul 6, 2024 9:07:23 GMT
What do you mean by release land for building,Zany?
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Post by borgr0 on Jul 6, 2024 10:12:17 GMT
= destruction of the green belt
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Post by AvonCalling on Jul 6, 2024 11:18:02 GMT
= destruction of the green belt How do you think housing should be resolved?
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Post by Steve on Jul 6, 2024 11:35:53 GMT
First thing (IIRC already done) take the moral high ground by ending the Rwanda scheme
Most effective thing: act to create significant employment away from the over crowded and already green land depleted South East
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Post by borgr0 on Jul 6, 2024 11:39:22 GMT
= destruction of the green belt How do you think housing should be resolved? CPOs of some of the usable 1 million vacant properties in England alone, let alone Wales and Scotland, refurbish them and turn them into social housing Here in the USA there's actually a way to become a legal owner of land you tend to, if it's vacated, as long as no one challenges it: ownership can automatically, after a time, pass to you. That's too lax a law but something similar should be introduced into UK law
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Post by Zany on Jul 6, 2024 11:40:01 GMT
What do you mean by release land for building,Zany? Relax planning laws. Give planning departments a makeover. One of my favourites is to offer farmers the right to sell bits of land to councils who then control what's built on it. So, I the farmer sell some poor agricultural land to the local council for 4 times its agricultural value, say £44,000 an acre (Building land £300,000 an acre) . The planning office convert it to building land. The council build houses on it to rent. Everyone jumps on the idea of brown field sites, but a little investigation shows they very often haven't been developed for very good reasons. Position, access roads sewage and water connection, desirability. (Not just as people tend to think cost or contamination)
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Post by Zany on Jul 6, 2024 11:42:32 GMT
So do we agree that building houses makes the biggest difference to all the issues?
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Post by borgr0 on Jul 6, 2024 11:43:07 GMT
The first thing the govt should do is start properly funding the NHS and reform it so it works properly. Then end the Rwanda scheme as Steve says.
Then introduce reasonable taxes and close loopholes for the ultra-rich, introduce a wealth tax.
Then end the disgusting regime at the DWP that denies terminally ill people benefits and turn assessments back over to qualified health professionals instead of private corps
End ridiculous Tory education schemes introduced by the likes of Gove - and go back to strengthening the curriculum and investing in schools so they aren't crumbling.
End all contracts to Fujitsu which are ongoing after the Horizon Post Office scandal.
Invest much more in defence and quickly reform the armed forces, so we actually stand a chance in the world war that's on our doorstep.
Sort out the police and courts systems as fast as possible to maintain order in the UK.
There are so many other things but those jump out for now
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Post by patman post on Jul 6, 2024 11:48:50 GMT
Cap the price of North Sea oil and gas to a level that gives producers adequate profit but severs the connection to world prices…
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Post by Zany on Jul 6, 2024 11:53:30 GMT
The first thing the govt should do is start properly funding the NHS and reform it so it works properly. Then end the Rwanda scheme as Steve says. Then introduce reasonable taxes and close loopholes for the ultra-rich, introduce a wealth tax. Then end the disgusting regime at the DWP that denies terminally ill people benefits and turn assessments back over to qualified health professionals instead of private corps End ridiculous Tory education schemes introduced by the likes of Gove - and go back to strengthening the curriculum and investing in schools so they aren't crumbling. End all contracts to Fujitsu which are ongoing after the Horizon Post Office scandal. Invest much more in defence and quickly reform the armed forces, so we actually stand a chance in the world war that's on our doorstep. Sort out the police and courts systems as fast as possible to maintain order in the UK. There are so many other things but those jump out for now That's a lot of first things. Properly funding the NHS is a very big "first thing"
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Post by Zany on Jul 6, 2024 11:54:12 GMT
First thing (IIRC already done) take the moral high ground by ending the Rwanda scheme Most effective thing: act to create significant employment away from the over crowded and already green land depleted South East How do you do that?
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Post by Zany on Jul 6, 2024 11:55:05 GMT
Cap the price of North Sea oil and gas to a level that gives producers adequate profit but severs the connection to world prices… Nationalise it?
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Post by Steve on Jul 6, 2024 11:57:50 GMT
How do you think housing should be resolved? CPOs of some of the usable 1 million vacant properties in England alone, let alone Wales and Scotland, refurbish them and turn them into social housing Here in the USA there's actually a way to become a legal owner of land you tend to, if it's vacated, as long as no one challenges it: ownership can automatically, after a time, pass to you. That's too lax a law but something similar should be introduced into UK law It already is UK law Many of those unoccupied properties you refer to are actually stuck in the problems of probate once someone dies. But we should end this AirBnB farce taking out housing.
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Post by borgr0 on Jul 6, 2024 12:02:02 GMT
CPOs of some of the usable 1 million vacant properties in England alone, let alone Wales and Scotland, refurbish them and turn them into social housing Here in the USA there's actually a way to become a legal owner of land you tend to, if it's vacated, as long as no one challenges it: ownership can automatically, after a time, pass to you. That's too lax a law but something similar should be introduced into UK law It already is UK law Many of those unoccupied properties you refer to are actually stuck in the problems of probate once someone dies. But we should end this AirBnB farce taking out housing. Isn't the UK law more complex than the yank law over here though? There must be some unoccupied properties out of that 1 million that are usable and aren't in probate, even 10-15% of them would sort out a large portion of the housing crisis. Remember those figures are for England alone. I agree about AirBnB
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