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March on Boris - London, Sat 31 Jan 2015

Michelle | 28.01.2015 23:44

Boris is a Thug

March for Homes, London, this Saturday 31st January 2015. March on Boris-the-Thug, to demand better housing for Londoners, and to demand the introduction of a rent cap. Starting 12 mid-day at the Elephant & Castle and in Shoreditch.

Assemble Shoreditch Church, Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JN
 https://www.facebook.com/events/1584117861819976/

Assemble St Maryʼs Churchyard, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SQ
 https://www.facebook.com/events/576375515827729/

 http://marchforhomes.org/
@LondonRentCap

Assembly for the accessible / short march - Potters Field St, London SE1 2AA at 1.30pm

To date nearly 3,000 people have signed-up for these feeder marches on Facebook. Please e-mail this information to ALL your your workmates, family and friends.

 http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/miranda-bryant-without-a-check-on-rising-rents-we-will-be-forced-out-of-london-9990126.html


Michelle

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Rent cap

29.01.2015 03:04

A 'rent cap' what do you think this is the 1970's ?

Go do some basic research to understand the stupidity of rent caps and why they always end up hurting the poor. Take a look at the translation of Petrov's "Interconnection of social housing".

Ghost of the past

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Research

29.01.2015 10:53

Take a look at the facebook page for this event and some of the people who are supporting it, I doubt very much they have an understanding of even basic economics never mind Georgism.

Voice of ?

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Reply to "Ghost"

29.01.2015 17:51

Nice to see the trolls are rattled!

You assert that - in your opinion - Petrov's "Interconnection of social housing" should be some sort of touch-stone for understanding how grand-theft capitalism is wrecking the lives of hard-working people in London today, but FYI, it's YOU who seems to think this is the 1970s. The problem with previous rent controls is that (long before the 1970s) they were set too low, dis-incentivised private landlords from investing in stuff like basic repairs, and in doing so encouraged slum-landlordism when they were intended to help the poor.

TODAY however no-one is coming remotely close to pretending that the spiraling costs of (hence spiraling profits from) the contemporary housing market don't provide more than enough incentives for landlords to invest, in for instance the RAMPANT buy-to-let market. The problem is that rent inflation is outstripping actual earnings to the point at which many Londoners report spending 70% to 80% of their earned income on housing costs... it's completely unsustainable.

And all that against the back-drop of the long-term social consequences of Thatcher's "right to buy" - a policy which sold-off public assets cheap and irreversibly, and which (even worse) BANNED local authorities from reinvesting money made from those sales back into social housing

Curtains

Numbers now up over 3,000

29.01.2015 17:53

Good increase in Facebook numbers since yesterday

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Social housing

30.01.2015 03:24

The translation of Petrov's "Interconnection of social housing" eh? A work so important and influential that searching for the terms -

Petrov "Interconnection+of+social+housing"

in Google produces literally zero results

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