Would you move to a tiny home?

[Brazen]

Found the ad with other views. That's no way for grown-ups to sit. I can feel my legs going numb just looking at it.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32174040.html

How about this one? For just £73,000 you can have a teeny house that has that real "murder house" feel about it.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44508635.html

[mongers]

The fuck is wrong with you people and the lack of living space in that country.  Been around for centuries, figure you'd have the concept grasped by now.  275k lbs. for that is obscene, not like it comes with its own royal or anything.

To be fair, I think that's in a quite exclusive area, the property looks familar could be in Belgravia, think foreign embassies and Charles Saatchi.

edit:
I've now looked at the dailyfail article, it's only in Islington. 

[Brazen]

Oh lookie, a cool million for a studio flat:
http://blog.zoopla.co.uk/2014/10/02/britains-smallest-1m-studio-is-for-sale/

[mongers]

Oh lookie, a cool million for a studio flat:
http://blog.zoopla.co.uk/2014/10/02/britains-smallest-1m-studio-is-for-sale/

I wonder if London's going to implode in a property price fuelled gravity wormhole, like in some cheap Dr.Who episode ?

[CountDeMoney]

Heh, Washington DC is dealing with a glut of condos after a building frenzy the last 10 years; unfortunately, the sellers wont adjust the pricing to reflect it, so there's a shitload of empty condos in DC nobody can afford.  Hence, 90 minute commutes from the hinterlands.

[mongers]

Heh, Washington DC is dealing with a glut of condos after a building frenzy the last 10 years; unfortunately, the sellers wont adjust the pricing to reflect it, so there's a shitload of empty condos in DC nobody can afford.  Hence, 90 minute commutes from the hinterlands.

You know there was a time when our government had a national housing policy.   

[CountDeMoney]

That smells of socialism and teachers' unions.

[Tamas]

That smells of socialism and teachers' unions.

Easing of regulations and tax incentives should be more than enough in an area like SE England. Then again, those are WAY harder to embezzle than direct government spending on housing.

[Brazen]

Do you know there's no limit on household income to get a council house, officially known as social housing (under which you pay a nominal rent subsidised to market rate by the local council)? Ministers originally suggested a limit of £100,000. Why the hell would you want a council house if you earn that much?

The late Bob Crow, the leader of the RMT union who was paid more than £100,000 a year lived in a social housing in London with rent reported to be around £150 a week. Labour MP Frank Dobson lived in a council property while he was a Cabinet minister earning more than £100,000 a year.

More recently a cap of £60,000 was suggested but proved controversial because it could affect couples composed of two public sector workers: teachers, police officers and senior nurses can all earn more than £30,000.

Surely it shouldn't be a factor? If you earn that much you can afford market-rate rent or a mortgage.

[Grey Fox]

Can you?

You barely can't here & I live in a City with a sane housing market.

[crazy canuck]

Do you know there's no limit on household income to get a council house, officially known as social housing (under which you pay a nominal rent subsidised to market rate by the local council)? Ministers originally suggested a limit of £100,000. Why the hell would you want a council house if you earn that much?

The late Bob Crow, the leader of the RMT union who was paid more than £100,000 a year lived in a social housing in London with rent reported to be around £150 a week. Labour MP Frank Dobson lived in a council property while he was a Cabinet minister earning more than £100,000 a year.

More recently a cap of £60,000 was suggested but proved controversial because it could affect couples composed of two public sector workers: teachers, police officers and senior nurses can all earn more than £30,000.

Surely it shouldn't be a factor? If you earn that much you can afford market-rate rent or a mortgage.

We have a similar problem here.  Although there are caps on first acquiring the property once in the cap no longer applies.  And so we have a situation where a lot of people entered things like coop housing as students or workers just starting out but have remained there while earning multiples of the cap. 

[Admiral Yi]

There are way too many people wanting to live here, there are way too much one or two level buildings around (I figure flat complexes got associated with council estates here which equals lower class which equals ewwww).

My understanding is that's a function of the building code.

[Josquius]

In London yeah. Landowners worried about their views/property values are a big part of stopping there being so many tall buildings.

In the UK in general though....crappy 50s/60s concrete blocks that were allowed to fall into decay and became dumping grounds for the worst council house tenants have given flats a major image problem

[MadImmortalMan]

So do you stick the poor people in council houses so nobody will build any affordable housing or does nobody build affordable housing because all their potential customers are in council flats?

[crazy canuck]

So do you stick the poor people in council houses so nobody will build any affordable housing or does nobody build affordable housing because all their potential customers are in council flats?

Why would anyone willingly build "affordable housing" rather than market rate housing?