Why you can't buy a house | Kieran Yates interview 

The saddest thing about all of this is that so many working class REDWALL communities voted for Johnson and the Tories in 2019, KNOWING what this lot were like.They knew that they rob from the poor to help the rich(giving the wealthy tax breaks).They knew this.YET they still went ahead and voted for them,giving Johnson an 80 seat majority and so much power.It was absolutely crazy.You come from a former mining community,You saw what Thatcher and her cronies did to your community in 1984/85, but then 34 years later,you go and vote in one of the biggest shysters in political history,Boris Johnson,and all the lies that came with Brexit.Voter suicide.Turkeys🦃voting for Christmas🎄

Great podcast but it's not true 9:40 that guarantors only exist for renting? It's common in lots of scenarios, e.g. loans, buying a car

Also, the workers who were trades-folk have little motivation to do a good job. These days, some diy-ers forget the basics, because it's cheaper. Bent all the way... Nowadays government schemes to save energy fk houses too. Cavity insulation, for example, does the opposite.

My father in law bought is 4 bed room house off the council for 8 grand, vaule now about hundred and twenty grand, born at the right time, past it on to is youngest son.

My m8 works as a housing officer 18 years ago he went out put people in homes & felt great HE JUST RETIRD FROM STRESS = ALL HE HAS DONE ,ALL HE HAS DONE ,FOR 10 YEARS is pick up 4 migrants from the detention centre ,take them to a home choice home & then screw people like me on the list - thayt home i bid on has gone but you are led to believe these are still available . they spit in his car & worse ,the humiliation for my m8 Dave was being SENT by the council on xmas eve to BUY THE MIGRANTS A PS5 = he cant afford one for his boy - he also gets called out when they run out of electric , cos they are too dumb to operate a meter BUT WANT TO WORK A SKILLED JOB HERE . Mines in the channel stopped germany invading in 1941 - wunt be a bad idea now !

@@vincentblack7467 he was lucky as some that also took up that advantage to buy their home, if you paid full rent for so many years but some have and had to sell their home just to pay for their nursing home. A bit life robin hood in reverse 🔄 for some.

Mass uncontrolled immigration has not helped but that is a inconvenient truth and must not be mentioned on this channel

Thankyou for being an older person that understands the reality of life for the young these days and doesn't think cancelling Netflix will be the answer to our problems lol.

Hi don't let them give up on children, just remind them it's what the government wants to stop you having kids.

Having a kid is one step into secure housing, don't they know this?

That's a bit dramatic, mate

I mean it sincerely, most young people in Britain should seriously consider leaving it. There are too many hurdles to ever having a comfortable life unless you come from a family with money

Why is it everybody else's job to provide for you? One of our biggest problems is that we have too many people reliant on others when they could be supporting themselves but they find it easier to take from those that do work.

@@shh_you_are_wrong If the government is allowed to take central power from all and govern how we live they do have a responsibility to make sure people have good lives. That is the fundamental exchange in allowing governments to have sole access to violence. You should study the history of nation states rather than swallowing stupid propaganda about poor people taking things.

@@shh_you_are_wrong Why are landlords reliant on tenants to pay their mortgages? If it's the tenants who are effectively paying the mortgages then the tenants should be the owners of the properties that they are living in. One of our biggest problems is landlords relying on others to pay their mortgages instead of paying for them themselves. The landlords are the ones who find it most easy to take from those that work.

that's capitalism, nobody forces you to rent in London, you can buy cheaper elsewhere, or can live in a tent, your choice.

@@shh_you_are_wrong it is not. It's feudalism. Read a book. Or keep spouting your ignorant views that have no bearing in fact for us all to see. Also, rent issues are not just in London they are a national issue. People like you are in the minority and don't forget it. You disgust me and the majority of society for being such a selfish, ignorant careless husk that has been eroded from the inside out.

@left_blank Like the Tories.

How is housing not one of the PMs top five priorities ?

@@dondoodat I think it’s because of the perceived apathy of the people. No one is shouting about the problem loudly enough, so the government feel like they can ignore it. When Michael Gove caved in to pressure from backbench MPs about not making house building targets mandatory, there should have been an outcry, but there wasn’t.

​@@dondoodat 25% of Tory party funds come from property developers. If he dares even talking reforms that would harm the interests of property developers, the Tory party would go bankrupt.

@@DERP_Squad Can't they still get by on Russian money ?

Southwark is known for their neglect of their tenants, the Aylesbury estate issue is not new there.

I have Autism spectrum disorder and learning difficulties (I'm 29M by the way) I struggle a lot with my life (from money, to even keeping jobs) I do have support etc, but I have actually come to the point of accepting my reality, that I do not think I'll be able to reach a successful comfortable life in general, so I try to adapt and make do with the little things I have in my life (like I'm lucky that i have my own flat a social hoousing one at least). I may not have all my life together, but at least there is some support out there (even though they're in pockets) and some times impossible to gain access too. Don't give up dude, I can totally sympathise with how you see things and how you feel (it's tough). Nothing in this world lasts forever.

Lmao in the land of spreadsheets, dB’s don’t mean anything, square footage means everything Sound isolation requires eliminating shared walls, let alone filling them with insulation

@left_blank what a stupid response.

@left_blank Alright jack mentality.

I had this issue a few years ago, a single dad with three kids (although only two of them officially living with me full time) earning under £19k in South Devon. I was renting a 2 bedroom property and paying £600 per month. I was facing eviction and my dad was pressuring me to buy my own house (which he had been doing since I was 18). I found a great shared ownership property at a reasonable price, I could afford the mortgage repayments and rent but couldn't raise the deposit which I think was about £6000 ish. In the end I had to opt for renting another property which I was in for 8 years paying someone else's mortgage in a damp house where the landlord would take months to repair problems, often to a shoddy standard. I'm 44 now, luckily living in social housing with my partner and children but I don't think I'll be in the position where I could afford to buy a property, at least not until I get inheritance from my parents and I'm sure I'll be in my 50s by then (not to mention, I'd rather have my parents still be around for a long time yet!). My kids have left home, one of my daughters has just finished university and living with her boyfriend at his mums because she's only just started working, and they're in the horrible position of looking for somewhere to live and I'm disgusted on how much the rents have gone up in the past couple of years. I just hope that in the future they'll be able to secure a home that they can afford and not have to worry about paying rent or eating and not have the anxiety of living in a property which clearly needs work to be liveable.

@left_blank Where do you get these flights of fantasy from?

@left_blank About how society is set up for the poor. You said it yourself, the council couldn't give a toss about people. Its the same pretty much throughout the country, and if you're poor you don't have any recourse but to accept it. There are no options. So in what way does that reflect a society set up for the poor?

@left_blank Personal responsibility for the tenants and not the council 🤡

@left_blank He should have been paying his rent. Council should have been taking care of the property as should every landlord. Renting is not just about hiking rents, collecting the money while neglecting the conditions of the house. Not that difficult.

Definitely won’t help if you voluntarily make yourself homeless so you need to stay put until eviction is executed. E.g. don’t leave based on possession order date but wait until your evicted.

Exactly, I'm 54. And on the same track. 3yr waiting list for social housing, and the rentals are a piss take.

I don't remember a boom. As someone in their fifties.

Just watched it. When I saw the documentary maker was Adam Curtis, I knew it would be good (his Trauma Zone series tracing the transition of Russia from communism to democracy and then on to Putin is essential viewing). A real indictment of the entire political and corporate class and it more or less predicts a Grenfell Tower scenario more than 30 years before it happened. Thank you for the recommendation.

@@stanleybeckett7705 It's shocking that millions were housed in these damp, dangerous tower blocks. Tory and Labour governments betrayed tenants. As the chap in the doc says, they were not designed for housing families, they were designed for making money.

I see it a lot more in westminister to be fair (the homelessness), I know it's everywhere.

@@HShango I can only imagine it's so much worse in a big city like London. It's just horrific that having so many people homeless has become normal.

I feel your pain.

@@vincentblack7467 at first it was so hard because we were used to bricks and mortar but now we wouldn't go back. We're happier than we ever were with the pressures of a bricks and mortar home and need far less income to live on so we don't have to work as much. So it's all good. We're now working to save for land abroad. Escaping the UK permanently is our goal. 💜🚐

@@break1722 it's definitely a cheaper and more relaxed way to live. We had no idea when we started this journey five years ago that we would love it so much! 💜🚐

Or we could all just stop paying our rent and tank the housing market...

@@firstlast-tf3fq that would take extremely large numbers and commitment. I’m not sure enough people would be willing to face the potential consequences of that. I could never risk making my wife and children homeless, for example.

@@perrymason866 well yeah, it would have to be on the scale of the poll tax strikes

@@firstlast-tf3fq there’s just not the level of leftist-organisation that there was back in the 90s. Likely due to the extremely successful propaganda that have made words like “socialism” into curse words.

We need something like a union but for tenants

bbBbbBut if Starman wins he'll give all the house to bwackeees innit.

Here here

Agreed people making loud noise at night is a major problem which boils down to selfishness. This needs to be dealt with. Police should be allowed to immediately arrest such people and then lock them up in a room for one week with loud music blaring 24/7. After this the noisemakers should be placed in a labor camp for 5 years constructing soundproof housing. Within 6 months the problem of selfish people making loud noise at night would disappear.

You probably know this, but no more than 1/3 should go on rent. 1/3 living costs. 1/3 savings. If you cannot do that, you need to either change where you live, or your job. If you don't rebalance, in the long run you might suffer.

@@paulbrown5839 As rents rise and rise, along with the cost of everything else, and wages fall and fall, in real terms, your equation seems rather meaningless. Can I tell my landlord he must accept no more than 1/3 of what I am able to earn when I've already rented the cheapest place I can find?

Thought the same

Yeah. Some kindness would be a nice addition to society these days. People aren't as open as they used to be though. I mean if i had a house and someone asked me i wouldn't deny them if it was somewhat worthwhile but i wouldn't go out of my way to do it. Moaning about landlords won't fix this housing issue, lodging could help though.

What a disgusting human

Being a landlord is not hard it could be a 150k house and maybe you were a nurse and you saved for a few years and bought it. It’s not that hard for a lot of professions, two band 6 nurses could achieve this together. Some people buy cars they can’t afford and vape sticks , cigs and drugs whilst others are wise with their money

@@marklasy6209 Some people choose to be parasites with their money - such as landlords ..

@@josephyates9936 my parents are landlords and they certainly aren’t parasites. They put their savings and got BTL mortgages, instead of wasting money on a flash car or business class they drove an old Nissan note ( when I was a child) and lived frugal, it’s allowed them to have prop incl our house worth around £2mil+ and sent me to private school. That’s not being a parasite, that’s called being smart. They are good landlords never taken anyone’s deposit even when there’s been damage, they only raised rents as there’s new licensing schemes by councils and a rise in interest rates, their rents are still around 20-25% less than market rent, so grow up and be positive and try to make a business or invest rather than bringing others down ! Btw they came to the country as asylum seekers in 1990 from Sri Lanka. For example my dad maybe has 4-5 t shirts, 2 joggers and 1 or 2 shirts, doesn’t waste money.Wears a £10 Casio watch, cooks at home, if there’s no time then they get a cheap meal from the local Sri Lankan takeaway. So there you go it’s not being parasitic, it’s being smart!

The issue with this country is that people whinge all they long, no one has a CAN DO attitude everyone has a “ life’s not fair attitude” life isn’t fair, that’s great cos you can make it excellent than just fair !

@@josephyates9936 we need to lower taxes for a start , 20% band should be dropped to 15% 40 and 45 should be dropped to 30%. NI should remain maybe dropped by 1 or 2 %. Corporation tax should be dropped from 24 to 20%, whilst dividend taxes should be dropped around 5% Drop IHT like USA where the limit is 28 mil and like Australia Council tax should be frozen Illegal immigrants shouldn’t be housed in hotels, instead houses in cheaper parts of the country. People should be given a choice whether their kid goes to private school or not, and should be given a voucher, to stop children going to sub par state schools. There should be fines for example for needing to use the hospital cos you got drunk on a night out it should be like a £200 fine deducted from your salary of benefits, safe for drug use. There should be fines for anti social behaviour. They should charge 10-20 quid per gp appointment … this would improve the uk tax status. Pay doctors and nurses more. Force those unemployed back into work …. The list goes on

Why wouldn't you, it's for your benefit so makes sense.

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Good point… you’d have to mad (or selfish) to have kids in that situation. Then they wonder why our birth rate is plummeting. A society slowly but surely committing suicide 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Housing Crisis is Neoliberalism. New Labour was Neoliberal as with every government since Callaghan 55 years ago.

So... this isn't helpful for a couple reasons: 1. This is an issue in most cities, not just london 2. If everyone who can't afford London leaves, house prices in other areas rise too, the problem remains, just in different areas 3. London needs poor people to function, it should be able to house them 4. People shouldn't be priced out of entire areas of the country. Like, it's ridiculous 5. My entire family and most of my friends are in London. What am I gonna be doing in a different part of the country? If I need support, I'm cut off from it. If I need childacre (for example) then I have to cough up much more money because my family can't help because I don't live near them anymore

@@ragrabbit101they have sold 3 by mass importation of cheap labour from abroad, under the guise of ‘being compassionate’. There are no cockneys left in the east end anymore.

If you are in a renters union landlords will not let their property to you. Have a nice day.

@@balance3201 Isn't that illegal? Sincerely asking I don't know British law on that and that sounds a bit like the argument that if you're a union member you won't get a job.

@@samdegoeij6576 it's a free country

@@balance3201 Free to kick down I guess.

@@samdegoeij6576 want freedom? Get freedom

No it started with Right to buy under Thatcher. Blair didn't invent neoliberalism, he perpetuated it.

If you build 600, 000 a year, it will take 20 years to get out of this mess, and with the population getting bigger, who knows.

Sure and if we look about 20 years ago, labour (under Tony blair) opened the jobs market immediately when the eu expanded in to Eastern Europe, resulting in masd immigration in to the UK and Sweden. Uk specifically didn't and still doesn't have the infrastructure hence why we see high rents and high house prices. Best to vote for a different party instead of lab/lib/cons

Where the f**k are the 600,000 extra people. Get your facts right, stop reading the mail and watching GBnews.

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Maybe to do with social housing stock been privatized. Public owned properties have been turned into assets. What is it that this government allows owning 20-30 properties ......in London mostly unoccupied sold to foreign investors

"m1gRanTz" We got an aging population and declining birth-rate..... now go pick some potatoes yourself.

If you build 600.000 years, it will take 20 years to get out of this mess, and with the population getting bigger, who knows.

@@gaspode505yes both are correct. Plus the breakdown of families leading to increased demand eg from older divorced people. Sadly no political party is willing to tackle any of the contributory factors to this.

@TWRehab...people have a right to shelter. What ...are we going backwards to Victorian times? Nobody wants tents everywhere like the 3rd world. Cities were getting like that before Covid.

Wrong. Housing is a fundamental necessity for individuals and for a worthwhile society. If you say housing is not a right then that is barbarism talking.

I don't think Politics Joe is for you..... Housing/Shelter is a need for people to be productive, or you know, stay alive. We ALL benefit from a happier, healthier, more productive society.

@@matthewhewitson80 housing is a need = agreed. Housing is a necessity = agreed. Housing is a right = disagree. We should seek to house people sure but the expansion of 'rights' is silly. It is a social good to house people and we should seek to achieve it. But just giving away houses to all sundry because otherwise its a rights violation is silly.

How about property that belongs collectively to taxpayers. That's a novel idea, isn't it. We could call it "council housing".........