Find out where you can afford to buy or rent in Great Britain

Re:Find out where you can afford to buy or rent in Great Bri... by MattPalmer1086 on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:35AM (#36291845)

Nonsense. The fact that we could squeeze everyone into the currently available bedrooms does not make sane housing policy.

I guess a spare bedroom tax would cause people to open out their (typically small) rooms or convert them into other uses.

You still see bricked up windows from when a window tax was operated.

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Re:Find out where you can afford to buy or rent in Great Bri... by tlocke on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:43AM (#36291927)

A spare bedroom tax doesn't change the average space per person, but it does increase the median space, as well as dramatically reducing the cost.

As for tax avoidance, that's a problem, but not insurmountable. For example a similar idea operates for social housing.

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Re:Find out where you can afford to buy or rent in Great Bri... by MattPalmer1086 on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:33AM (#36294167)

For social housing, it is not a tax but rather that housing benefits can be reduced if there are surplus rooms.

Various studies have shown that it did not incentivise people to move, although of those who did move, some of them downsized.

All the major parties in the UK except the conservatives oppose it.

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