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https://www.housecritic.co.uk House buying, selling, viewing and the housing market. Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:29:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.housecritic.co.uk/2011/01/20/affordable-housing/ Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:22:22 +0000 https://www.housecritic.co.uk/?p=58 Continue reading →]]> Nothing personal about this particular venture but the phrase “affordable housing” gets my goat!
Plan revived for 269 new homes on edge of Sherborne.
There’s a line in the article that I felt was worth showing you.


Some of the housing will be affordable. This does put the spin on it that, indeed some will be affordable and some will be unaffordable!
Would you like to buy an unaffordable house?
Whilst talk of huge financial turmoil still over inflated debts caused by house price inflation and insane lending, it does strike me as particular silly that this one phrase is still used.
All housing needs to be affordable to the masses! Council waiting lists are packed with people desperate for somewhere to live, yet still developers will be allowed to build unaffordable housing.

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