{"id":40864,"date":"2017-11-16T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40864"},"modified":"2017-11-15T09:33:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:33:24","slug":"housing-woes-in-the-downtown-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/16\/housing-woes-in-the-downtown-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing woes in the downtown core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A timely and clearly heartfelt plea by <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/zim-tzus-latest-press-conference-as-interpreted-by-ted-glover\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eleanor Shaw<\/a> that only needs a brief preface from Colby Cosh:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some of you will read this without ever knowing it is satire, despite this helpful disclaimer <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPSqMrCrts\">https:\/\/t.co\/uPSqMrCrts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/status\/930790045149048832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>All I want are the same things my parents wanted \u2013 a good job, a loving partner and a two-bedroom live\/work space with balcony in a nice area of the world\u2019s third-richest city.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy for the Gen Xers and Baby Boomers. To them, with low property prices in areas considered \u2018undesirable\u2019 at the time and interest rates between five and 15 per cent, getting a mortgage was easy.<\/p>\n<p>But for us, those opportunities have gone. To live anywhere in London, even somewhere unsexy, is prohibitively expensive. All the nice houses are already owned by older people with better jobs, a situation surely unique in the history of the world.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just London. In all the other cool cities around the UK \u2013 Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester \u2013 stylish city-centre properties suitable for fashionable twentysomethings are priced far, far beyond our reach.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The government must act now to build affordable properties for millennials, and support us during our tough first decade in the capital as we work our way up in our careers until we have cleared our debts and are pulling in seven figures.<\/p>\n<p>Then, and only then, can we sell our London homes to developers and move to massive houses in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A timely and clearly heartfelt plea by Eleanor Shaw that only needs a brief preface from Colby Cosh: Some of you will read this without ever knowing it is satire, despite this helpful disclaimer https:\/\/t.co\/uPSqMrCrts &mdash; Colby Cosh (@colbycosh) November 15, 2017 All I want are the same things my parents wanted \u2013 a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57],"tags":[426,956,463],"class_list":["post-40864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","tag-housing","tag-millennials","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aD6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40865,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40864\/revisions\/40865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}