There is no housing crisis, only a population crisis

Isn't it great when you find a comment that is better than the original article, here's one from this article which i thought you might like.

http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/content/93-there-no-housing-crisis-only-population-crisis.html

Lorraine

Why is it, when there is talk of immigration, we are compared to the USA, the country is huge, we are just a small island, it just does not make sense, it's like comparing us to Russia or China.
In England and Wales there maybe 700,000 empty homes, they have been going up like rabbit hutches, I bet you will find that the magority of these homes are new builds, which I assume have been built for the immigrants.
Last year rates where paid on all unoccupied industrial properties, a lot of people started to demolish the properties rather than be faced with the heafty rate bills, without the ability of making profit, this was highlighted on many programmes, that's why a lot of building work was stopped, because as soon as the roof was put on, the rates then became due on the properties, which halted a lot of building work.
The reason that out of town retail parks are thriving, is due to the rateable value of these properties, a lot of them are classed as warehouses, which means less rates and of course free parking facilities unlike towns.
The rateable value of shops in town are over priced, and with internet shopping it's even more difficult for town shops to compete. Problems should stimulate the human mind, but in which way.

Means testing on your lifestyle, even though you paid into the system, you may not be entitled to medical care.

More fines imposed on parking, seperating your rubbish, deadlines for payments, fines for filling in forms wrong.

Grants made available for anyone that can conclude that CO2 emissions, cause global warming.

We can't afford the rates on a car showroom, so we will turn the forecourt into a hand car wash business, that's forward thinking.

Will the time come, when we have all these empty properties and stalls on the forecourts selling our wares, that's quite an interesting prospect, it's definitely forward thinking, that we will make more money going backwards.

Thanks Lorraine a thoroughly good read.