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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Some quite out of touch comments in here, I think. Saying "unlikely they would imitate the stylish apartment blocks that can be seen in the likes of Paris or Rome." when a large chunk of our population currently don't have a hope of ever owning a home is pretty elitist, in my view.

They also mention 50m2 as being considered the minimum for banks to lend to you, I live in a three bedroom house that's 100, a living space for one person can definitely be less than half that.

I really hope we can get more dwellings built that are affordable for a single person, that's something currently missing from our market, I feel.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Developers just keep churning out the same bland cookie cutter designs for the last twenty years so excuse me if I don't value their opinions

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And that's kinda what we need right now, just mass produced, low cost housing that people can actually afford.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Except it is neither low cost nor affordable.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Because I've been alive and a renter in the last twenty years?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And that means these hypothetical new builds will be unaffordable?

You're going to have to explain your reasoning here, we've had a shortage of housing for a very long time, how will ending that shortage not help?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Who's talking about new builds?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The news article you're commenting on?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Yet my comment wasn't. Clearly.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

You didn't read the article, did you?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Course I did. I also read the part about developers being against it. Which was the topic of my comment. Which you didn't read.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

So, you read the article, and proceeded to start an argument about an entirely different topic?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

No. That's exactly what you did here though.

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