On Tuesday, 8 November 2016 10:13:06 UTC, charles wrote:
In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
In article , RJH wrote:

On 07/11/2016 20:06, Bill Wright wrote:
I've just watched John Snow's report from the US. Utter total one-sided
bias against Trump. Staggeringly one-sided.
Now Dispatches are on about the housing shortage. They mention that it's
partly due to the 'massive population increase' but they don't say why
the population has increased.

It's not population increase - in the main the physical shortage is due
to household composition (more smaller households) and empty properties.

15 million extra isn't a population increase, then?

House prices are another, related, issue.

And why d'ye think house prices might have gone up to the extent they
have?

Trickle down from Russian Oligarchs paying over the odds for mansions in
London.

Really, do you really think they are buying up 1-3 bed flats in east london ?