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Sharing the pain
Shared ownership is set to be another broken retaining wall in the housing crisis, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Lovelace House, a shared ownership housing scheme on Uxbridge Road in Ealing, London, 2008; Yvette Cooper
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
SHARED ownership was supposed to be an “imaginative” housing solution pushed both by New Labour and Cameron’s Conservatives, but a recent article in online magazine The Lead says the “situation is so desperate that the plight of shared owners may well be the next big housing debacle.”
Shared ownership is for people who want to buy a flat but can’t afford ever-rising property prices. So you try and “own,” say, 30 per cent of your flat, paying rent for the remaining 70 per cent.
It’s meant to be a bridge between renting and buying. Maybe over time you can buy bigger shares of your flat and slowly join the respectable property-owning classes.
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