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If the government are promising all this affordable housing?

Why is it that everywhere you look there are boards advertising Executive - Luxury - Superior etc housing for sale? Far more than affordable! I n the light of the increase in house pricing I assume affordable to mean for first time buyers and bottem end of the market Lady moon I dont think its because they can't see the needs of the people they don't want to see because they don' t care! Hello Red - I do so agree with everything you say and our future generations will be lucky to see a blade of meadow grass!

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1. More to the point who will be able to afford this housing.
2. Affordable is relative. What is affordable to me may not be affordable to you (or the other way around).
3. There are still some very rich people out there and they want the best. The average joe out there won't even look at what is out of their range. People are losing their houses and they are still building!
4. Where did you read or hear that the "government" is promising "affordable housing?" Maybe you mean those mobile homes that are sitting in Arkansas because they are too poisonous to be occupied? But were probably purchased because someone in the Dept of Homeland Security had a friend in the manufactured home business!
5. Hi Trish Affordable housing is not for people like me or you its mainly for the new influx of immigrants and other foreign Nationals entering the country. As you know, the 'Dictator' and his gang have promised to build housing for them all( over our Green belt land of course).. Mr & Mrs average Native Briton will have to put up with the old antiquated council stock our forfathers lived in. Most councils do deals with property developers making 10% of the housinfg built on the site affordable but I'll tell you what? a Native Briton never sees or lives in them. ATB Red
6. Oh so true Red Monk. Affordable housing will be a ruse in the next general election to get the votes. This Govt really doesn't give a damn about the lower paid...would they have removed the 10p tax if they did. I think not. And as Red Monk says these houses are all for the immigrants to house their ever increasing families. Also look at some the types of houses and flats that are being built...they are for the children of the wealthy MP's who have been creaming off the taxpayers for years!
7. Its usually in the form of shared ownership homes, and is not taking off well as it just seems so risky and complicated for everyone involved. And your right, there are far, far too many developments of luxury apartments. I recently did some work in Plymouth (a city where half of the adult population are on benefits) and there were adverts for luxury harbor-side accommodation in the region of a million pounds for a flat! Even in London where housing is in high demand nobody wants to live in the big, soul-less apartment developments.
8. Yeh - where is this 'affordable' housing and what mechanism does Brown have for delivering the promises of houses over the next few years - or is it all hot air as per usual. ??
9. This was originally Prescotts idea. No further comment needed.
10. There would be no strain on housing in the UK at all without the effect of inward migration .Houses would be between 30% and 50 % cheaper If actual levels of net migration of 172,000 are used the likely need for new homes in the South-East and London alone will be 430,000 by 2021 over and above the 1,180,000 already planned for those two regions
11. Its crazy when families are sitting in B&Bs with nowhere to live, that they are building "luxury" and "executive" crap all over the place. Hardly anyone can afford it and those that do will most probably end up getting it repossessed when they can't keep up with the sky high mortgages. Why can't they see that people's basic needs are not being met in this country!? And as other posters say, most of the "affordable" housing will just go to the migrants and asylum seekers who Brown wants to flood the country with.
12. It's about saying what needs to be said at the time not about reality. The current slippage in house prices is being hyped up as much as the over pricing was. Affordability will be achieved by a slowing down in house prices over a five year period and first time buyers realising they have the chance to save and negotiate for a house. A slowing economy will see many casual workers moving on looking for better opportunities and this will release rental properties. The housing boom was always a false dawn. Fancy fried drainpipe or boiled roof tile?
13. The harsh reality of "affordable housing" is that it can only made affordable by being subsidised and at best made available for a small number of people.The Government knows this but will not say it our loud.The reason they won't do that is that people do not want to hear it.Therefore they pretend that it has a magic wand that can make all sorts of dreams come true.Abracadabra Gordon !!