Where moonbat socialism can take us?

[BoogyMan]

Abject socialist classwarfare dipstickery at its finest. Thank goodness we are not quite this far gone in America yet.

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There are two housing crises in Britain. One of them is obvious and familiar: the walloping shortfall in supply. Households are forming at roughly twice the rate at which new homes are being built. In England alone, 650,000 homes are classed as overcrowded. Many other people are desperate to move into their own places, but find themselves stuck. Yet the new homes the government says we need – 5.8m by 2033 – threaten to mash our landscapes and overload the environment.

The other crisis is scarcely mentioned. I stumbled across it while researching last week's column, buried on page 33 of a government document about another issue. It's growing even faster than the first crisis – at a rate that's hard to comprehend. Yet you'll seldom hear a squeak about it in the press, in parliament, in government departments or even in the voluntary sector. Given its political sensitivity, perhaps that's not surprising.

The issue is surplus housing – the remarkable growth of space that people don't need. Between 2003 and 2008 (the latest available figures), there was a 45% increase in the number of under-occupied homes in England. The definition of under-occupied varies, but it usually means that households have at least two bedrooms more than they require. This category now accounts for over half the homes in which single people live, and almost a quarter of those used by larger households. Nearly 8m homes – 37% of the total housing stock – are officially under-occupied.

.: Read the rest of this tripe :. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/04/take-housing-fight-wealthy)

[Gaffer]

What an ass. They should have included pictures of where he lives and how many rooms he has. Maybe they should limit how many cloths a person can own, tax the size of your bed.

The thought patterns of these silly socialist just amaze me. Of course everything they suggest only applies to other people and not themselves.

[fj1200]

Click through and read this moron's solution to this "problem."


While most houses are privately owned, the total housing stock is a common resource. Either we ensure that it is used wisely and fairly, or we allow its distribution to become the starkest expression of inequality.
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First, we need to see the problem. I suggest a new concept: housing footprints. Your housing footprint is the number of bedrooms divided by the number of people in the household.
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The next step is to reverse the UK's daft fiscal incentive to under-occupy your home. If you live by yourself, regardless of the size of your property, you get a 25% council tax discount. The rest of us, in other words, subsidise wealthy single people who want to keep their spare rooms empty.

The first PP is dipstickery, viewing private property as a "common resource."

The response to his first concept would be the skyrocketing number of dens, home offices, rec rooms, etc. instead of calling it a bedroom. However, reversing the tax benefit to live by yourself is a good idea, it is a subsidy to those who want to live in larger houses. But my overall guess is that he ignored the regulations that limit the supply of housing.

[SassyLady]

My first thought is that a couple bought a home when they were raising children and when the children grew up and moved out they decided they would stay in the home they had occupied for all those years. And, the extra bedrooms are handy for when the children come home to visit on the holidays, and for when they have grandchildren who want to come visit.

Why is it liberals want people to be stacked on top of each other and living in a "commune" situation?

I grew up in a family that had seven kids, parents, aunts and uncles and cousins always living with us and the largest house we ever lived in was a three bedroom....most of the time it was a two bedroom. We had bunkbeds in the hallway to accommodate all of us. That was one of the driving forces behind my success .... I wanted my own, private space without having bodies and their crap all over the place. I live in a four bedroom house with an office. The other bedrooms are guest rooms for when the family does visit ... that way no one has to sleep on rollaways or fold out couches. They can actually put their clothes away in a closet and dressers.

I like privacy too much to live the way some people do.