Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "The UK Housing Crisis is Getting Worse" video.

Bot argument. It's houses for sale that are short. And most landlords don't take people on benefits because housing benefit is capped. So the people buying houses are people with money to afford to buy... So your argument falls at the first hurdle, Botarovich. Immigrants - unless they're already wealthy, aren't buying. Must try harder to understand your target.
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I think Rachel Reeves is missing a trick. Instead of bunging the private fund managers a lot of money from local authority pension funds, with only 5% to be invested, why not stipulate that 15% of investments from these funds go to local authorities to build more houses? Right now 20% of pensions are subsidies from central government amounting to £70bn pa. Spend that on housing, training new construction workers, and using new building technologies we might make a dent in the problem.
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Not true. The houses were good enough to qualify for mortgages, and many of the flats were too. Grenfell happened because the local council did not care enough to ensure that the properties met current regulations by installing sprinklers and other updates. And the renovators went along with that to increase their profits. Also, in London a lot of tower blocks have flats that have been purchased. They are good if they are looked after and updated, but with governments centralising financing and power, local authorities have and still are being hobbled. It's not that they don't want to build. It's that they are being prevented from building. The scam Thatcher inflicted on the country is still being allowed to escalate, because our politics is broken. Our politicians are careerists who will get speaking tours and nice jobs in the city after they leave politics, from the plutocrats funding them to get into power. So, we're being screwed over. Until we wake up to that nothing will change.
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Not really. You are taxed if you have a capital gain from that property. No capital gain, and all you have to pay is your council tax. Make a profit just like any other business, and you will be taxed on that profit. So, excuse me but I have no violins left. You are a business, and so you have to be taxed.
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That's what you think. Watch and see. There's no way back from this, because we locking into a failing economic system. And the only way the profits can keep rolling in is to bring in migrants. As there's not enough money to pay anyone well. And attacking migrants is just a distraction. It's the form of capitalism we practice that leaves those in power with no choice but to bring in migrants, and pay them badly, and end up working in poor conditions. Stepping on them will not change one thing, because they are only the symptom of a failing economic model. Not the cure for it. Our politicians won't admit that growth is going to be quite difficult to find in the midst of the crises coming down the line. Inflation, and dealing with the consequences of sleeping on climate change will cost billions. Where's that money going to come from? Us if the plutocrats get their way. That's means we have to change, and the plutocrats are in denial. They know that they have to exploit everyone but their kith and kin to survive. So we have to not think there's someway to turn the clock back. That's all gone. It's going to be about survival for us too.
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On giving tax cuts. Lol. And the result is we've won an economic Darwin Award.
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Tejvan, have you had a look at a book called "Diminishing returns: the new politics of growth and stagnation", edited by Lucio Baccaro, Mark Blyth, and Jonas Pontusson? There's a chapter in it called 'Credit-Driven and Consumption-Led Growth Models in the United States and United Kingdom' written by Alexander Reisenbichler and Andreas Wiedemann. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this work.
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Sorry, but you're wrong. They were good enough to sell off, so Margaret Thatcher sold them off to the tenants with a 20% discount. The ones sold are still in the private sector, and still standing.
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