Tuesday, June 3, 2014

378. A Mafia da Habitação em Londres

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(Lembramos que o nosso blog é especulativo, tanto se aproxima como se afasta da verdade. Não acrdite muito nós, mas confie ainda muito menos nos outros. Entre o Cartesiano e os outros, nós não sabemos quem diz mais verdades e mais mentiras. Leia  e depois pense por si. 

Foi mesmo para isso que lhe deram um cérebro ou parte, para o pôr a funcionar e pensar por si próprio,  de modo cartesiano e não de emitir, como nós, juízos sem fundamento). Sobretudo ria à gargalhada de certos feitos humanos, porque isso é a melhor cura para a megalomania, para os bicos de papagaio, enxaquecas, bruxarias e todas as macacadas que podem habitar a mente humana.)

A Pirataria na  habitação em Londres,  senhorios mercenários e  políticos coniventes  provocam grandes injustiças sociais na população.

O artigo seguinte em que a Comissão Europeia alerta para o problema, embora não saiba nem o mínimo como isso funciona em Londres, e.g., o subsídio de habitação vai para os senhorios e não para os inquilinos. Anda o contribuinte britânico a subsidiar os senhorios no Reino Unido!

E quando você tiver direito ao subsídio de habitação, então isso é o fim da macacada: se trabalhar  mais um pouco a pensar que vai  dar mais saúde à sua conta bancária, você engana-se, porque esse dinheiro será entegue ao senhorio para pagar a renda casa.

Moral da história, a renda da casa chupa-lhe tudo e você anda ali  a trabalhar todo o ano para pagar a renda de uma casa onde você nem pára muito  porque tem de trabalhar fora para pagar a renda. Isto é mesmo coisa de malucos!

Os agentes do partido conservador e doutros, representantes da burguesia endinheirada,  lançaram um ataque vitupérico contra a Europa porque não gostam que lhes digam as verdades, e ainda muito menos que impeçam de explorar a população a bel prazer.

Obviamente que os habitantes de Londres batem-se com unhas e dentes por casas sociais a rendas moderadas,  doutro modo os salários nem sequer chegam para pagar a renda (aluguel)  das casas no setor privado.  

Até há milionários a viver em casas sociais  nos council flats dos housing estates londrinos, coisa que você turista nem se apercebe, se você não alargar os seus horizontes além da Oxford Street e do render da guarda em Buckingham Palace.

Esta crise monumental da habitação em Londres é provocada por uma política governamental bullshit, favorecendo os senhorios e oligarcas da pior espécie em busca de abrigo para capitais, certamente não muito ortodoxos,  e não de abrigo para eles próprios.

 São capitais migrantes a voar em aviões a jacto e nem sequer precisam de passaporte nem de dizer donde vêm. Têm talvez as mesma origen,  mas não o infortúnio daqueles que morrem afogados às dezenas nas águas do Mediterrâneo

Segundo ouvimos dizer, Londres é hoje um building site, um grande chantier por toda a parte. Não há rua nenhuma onde não haja obras. Andam também a contruir o maior desenvolvimento urbano de todos os tempos em Londres em volta da Torre onde um helicóptero embateu recentemente, em Nine Elms,  ao lado do Témes e dos restaurantes famosos do grupo Madeira, A Casa Madeira e o Pico. 

Segundo informações não fidedignas, os apartamentos foram todos vendidos a preços mais elevados do que a Torre Shard em London Bridge muito antes de os começarem. Parece que nenhum Inglês lá teria conseguido comprar nem um buraco de tijolo. Os tijolos ingleses são macissos, burros.

Para os aficionados, saibam que aquilo se chama Luxury appartments porque flat tem uma conotação council flat e isso não ficaria socialmente bem naquela área. Lol.  

Além disso o preço também sobe com a designação appartment, sobretudo se ficar mesmo ali ao lado da embaxada Yankee e com vistas maravilosas sobre os barcos sightseeing a passear turistas saloios no Tamisa à procura do Big Ben.


European Commission urges UK to tax expensive homes more

HousesThe European Commission described Britain's council tax system as "regressive"

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The European Commission has called on the UK to raise taxes on higher value properties, build more houses and adjust the Help to Buy scheme.
In a review of UK economic policies, it said council tax bands should be revalued and action taken to address "rapid" house price rises in London.
The intervention has angered Tory MPs.
Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable said the UK had a "problem" with house price inflation but "we don't need the EU to tell us what's going on here".
Each year the commission, the EU's executive body, offers member states advice intended to help ensure the continent's long-term growth.
Its intervention came as there were continued signs of UK house price growth - in its latest update, the Nationwide said house prices rose at their fastest rate in seven years last month but there were signs that the market may be "starting to moderate".
'Price increases'
On housing, the commission urged ministers to "deploy appropriate measures to respond to the rapid increases in property prices in areas that account for a substantial share of economic growth in the United Kingdom, particularly London".
Norman Smith explains why EU advice is adding to tensions with UK
Some housing experts have expressed concerns that Help to Buy, which was announced in the 2013 Budget, has contributed to double-digit price rises seen in London and other property hotspots over the past year.
The three-year scheme is designed to help people who can afford to meet monthly mortgage repayments but cannot raise a large enough deposit to get on the housing ladder.
Figures released last week showed that 94% of the 7,313 home purchases funded through Help To Buy so far were outside London, while more than 80% of those assisted were first-time buyers.
Hew home being builtThe commission acknowledges the UK has acted to tackle housing demand and supply
But in its review, the commission said the Bank of England should "continue to monitor house prices and mortgage indebtedness and stand ready to deploy appropriate measures, including adjusting the Help to Buy 2 (loan guarantee) scheme, if deemed necessary".
As well as increasing the supply of new homes, the commission said reforms to the taxation of land and property should be considered "to alleviate distortions in the housing market".
"At the moment, increasing property values are not translated into higher property taxes as the property value roll has not been updated since 1991," it said.
"Taxes on higher value property are lower than on lower value property in relative terms due to the regressivity of the current rates and bands within the council tax system."
George Osborne and David CameronMinisters say strong growth figures show their economic plan is working
The commission praised the UK for extending childcare provision, changing benefit rules and providing more incentives to work but said more should be done on apprenticeships and skills.
"With these recommendations, the commission is pointing the way forward," commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said.
"We believe that member states must now play their part in seeing these reforms through, even if we know that sometimes they are politically unpopular," he said.
The BBC News Channel's chief political correspondent Norman Smith said David Cameron and George Osborne were likely to be "quietly fuming" at the wide-ranging critique of government policies at a time ministers were presenting the economic recovery as a success story.
Aside from the idea that the UK must build more houses, which the government accepts, the rest of the advice was likely "to end up in the bin", he added.
Norman Smith said many Tory backbenchers were already "spoiling for a fight" over Europe and this was likely to make matters worse at a time when the UK was involved in a stand-off over who should lead the commission.
'Aspirational'
Douglas Carswell, the MP for Clacton, told The Times that an unelected group of officials could not tell the UK how to spend its money while colleague Dominic Raab said the chancellor should treat the Commission's advice as "spam when it arrives in his inbox".

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In London, average incomes are not rising at anything like the rate that house prices are going up. If that continues, academics say there could be significant social implications.”
Asked for his reaction, Mr Cable said annual house price rises of more than 10% were an obstacle for many young people's hopes of owning their own home.
"We can see the evidence in front of us, we don't need the European Union to tell us what's going on here," he said.
"We clearly do have a problem, we are not building enough houses and this is reflected in housing inflation and there are lots of things we've got to do to solve that problem."
Lord Turner, former head of the Financial Services Authority, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that some "legitimate issues" had been raised about tax on housing.
"I'm amazed how little I pay on my house in Kensington compared with what somebody pays with a house worth a very small fraction of that in the north of England," he said. "I'm not sure that is a fair system."
A Treasury spokesman defended Help to Buy as an "aspirational" policy which was helping thousands of people to finally realise the dream of home ownership.
He added: "We are the first to say we must be vigilant and not repeat the mistakes of the past which is why we specifically gave the Bank of England powers to intervene in the housing market.
"They should not hesitate to use them if they see fit."

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    562.Alan of Sydney 

    Why should I have to sell up and move to a cheaper house, I've already paid taxes and bought the one I'm in? I've worked my entire life and done without other things so I can be comfortable in my old age, not so I can grow old worrying about how to fund increased counsil tax from my meagre pension.
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    Supply and demand. If everybody wanted to live in Poland, then house prices would be higher there. The problem is the lack of popularity with some EU states as they can't seem to create jobs or get people to stay and live there. The Eu should be addressing these failings first, not be worrying about countries like the the UK that give billions to the EU.
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    Comment number572.

     
    I live in a house bought for much less than it is now worth. It used to be one of the larger properties in the street but many of my neighbours have considerably extended their homes which are now an awful lot bigger and more luxurious than mine yet I pay more council tax. Revaluing a property for council tax purposes doesn't occur until the place is sold which may be twenty years later. Unfair!
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    What's regressive about council tax is the link to property value. It's supposed to be a contribution for local services such as rubbish collection! Like many on the liberal left it seems to be a target for revenue generation from those the left deems to be 'the haves' & therefore 'fair game' for unfair taxation. Many pensioners are asset rich & income poor after Labours decimation of pensions!
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    Comment number354.

     
    What evaluators have to remember is that home owners may have been resident for many many years during which the value of the home may have increased significantly over the cost and any improvements made. By raising tax bills some may be forced to move out, particularly those in retirement. Is this really fair?
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