"tim..." wrote in message
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 09/11/16 12:10, tim... wrote:

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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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.

well you *can* see why they did that

they were making a specific point about how the house builders
artificially increase the price of housing by restricting supply

If they got bogged down in political claims about whether immigration is
a good thing or not, their main point would become a secondary gripe and
been complete missed

IF population was stable we would only be building new houses by tearing
down old ones.

There's a greater demand because more and more people aspire to an own
house

It's not that long ago that 4 families would share a tenement block with 2
rooms each (if they could afford 2 rooms!)

Quite hard to restrict stocks to elevate prices.

It's what they do

They have PP for an Estate for 500 houses and you think "that will help
with the local demand"

25+ years ago they would have built all 500 in one go and moved onto the
next estate.

now they build them out at 50 per year

I find it hard to believe that there has been that change.

If there actually has, why do you believe that change has
happened, particularly with borrowed money cheaper now
and more demand for new houses than there was then ?