Comments on: And now, some good news… http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Wed, 23 May 2012 18:55:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: liz macdonald http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-61888 liz macdonald Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:28:18 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/#comment-61888 Good for Isabel Waterhouse!!!I knew her mother and she would have so approved!My father lived in Salcombe and I lived there too for some years--it became a ghost town in the winter with all the absent holiday home owners.I see no conceivable reason for them having any say in the day to day life of East Portlemouth--how dare they!I hope that the social housing is approved-the village is saved--and WELL DONE Isabel!!! Good for Isabel Waterhouse!!!I knew her mother and she would have so approved!My father lived in Salcombe and I lived there too for some years–it became a ghost town in the winter with all the absent holiday home owners.I see no conceivable reason for them having any say in the day to day life of East Portlemouth–how dare they!I hope that the social housing is approved-the village is saved–and WELL DONE Isabel!!!

]]> By: Mandi http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-52802 Mandi Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:11:43 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/#comment-52802 <p>Here in West Wales house prices have soared as many retired people escape here from the rat-race of English urban living. there are few jobs and those with jobs no longer earn enough to get or sustain a mortgage. There isn't enough social housing and so inevitably the young leave. On a positive note: A friend just informed me of the existence of the Walter Segal Trust. This makes possible self-build social housing on a low impact, low cost basis. This is already supported by the Community Self Build Agency in south west England. This and the Lammas Ecovillage start making a solution here in West Wales seem possible.</p> Here in West Wales house prices have soared as many retired people escape here from the rat-race of English urban living. there are few jobs and those with jobs no longer earn enough to get or sustain a mortgage. There isn’t enough social housing and so inevitably the young leave.
On a positive note: A friend just informed me of the existence of the Walter Segal Trust. This makes possible self-build social housing on a low impact, low cost basis. This is already supported by the Community Self Build Agency in south west England. This and the Lammas Ecovillage start making a solution here in West Wales seem possible.

]]> By: James Samuel http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-52765 James Samuel Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:08:33 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/#comment-52765 <p>Wow! I used to live in Salcombe and take the ferry to Portlemouth regularly. My Grandfather, John Baylay, started the Island Cruising Club there. My uncle is still there. What a small world. Thanks for the inspiration.</p> Wow! I used to live in Salcombe and take the ferry to Portlemouth regularly. My Grandfather, John Baylay, started the Island Cruising Club there. My uncle is still there. What a small world. Thanks for the inspiration.

]]> By: Leanne Veitch http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-52704 Leanne Veitch Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:14:37 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/#comment-52704 <p>We have a similar problem here in Australia, where the 60+ generation are pricing out their childrens' generation by keeping hold of family homes, not moving on to smaller housing when their adult children move out, and investing for their retirement in the property market, thus raising property prices still further out of the reach of young couples.</p> <p>In Melbourne where I live, it is not uncommon to see very average bungalows in working class areas fetch well over half a million Aussie dollars (220,000+ pounds). Workers cottages closer to the city are fetching close to a million (440,000 pounds).</p> <p>More and more people in their twenties and thirties are simply having to face the reality that they will never be able to afford their own home, while their parents' generation commonly own one or two homes and investment properties.</p> <p>Of my friends (all of which are University educated and employed), only my husband and I and another couple have a mortgage, and none of us own our home outright. And in both these cases the homes we live in are very basic - well below the standard our own parents had as their first homes, yet it takes two incomes to make ends meet.</p> <p>Australia may have been labelled "The Lucky Country" once upon a time, but the label is empty now.</p> We have a similar problem here in Australia, where the 60+ generation are pricing out their childrens’ generation by keeping hold of family homes, not moving on to smaller housing when their adult children move out, and investing for their retirement in the property market, thus raising property prices still further out of the reach of young couples.

In Melbourne where I live, it is not uncommon to see very average bungalows in working class areas fetch well over half a million Aussie dollars (220,000+ pounds). Workers cottages closer to the city are fetching close to a million (440,000 pounds).

More and more people in their twenties and thirties are simply having to face the reality that they will never be able to afford their own home, while their parents’ generation commonly own one or two homes and investment properties.

Of my friends (all of which are University educated and employed), only my husband and I and another couple have a mortgage, and none of us own our home outright. And in both these cases the homes we live in are very basic – well below the standard our own parents had as their first homes, yet it takes two incomes to make ends meet.

Australia may have been labelled “The Lucky Country” once upon a time, but the label is empty now.

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]]> By: Caroline Walker http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-52671 Caroline Walker Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:16:47 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/10/22/and-now-some-good-news/#comment-52671 <p>Yes, this is indeed good news and I would like to flag up that in Hartland, North Devon we have a Town Trust which owns 7 properties in the village for rent to local people: they had 6 for a long time then an old lady in the village left them her cottage. The trust is run by a group of local volunteers who make sure that the tenants are local people in need. I think we need a movement like Vinoba Bhave's in India many years ago which encouraged landowners to gift land to the landless. Perhaps there are many older people without relatives to leave their houses to who would like to leave a legacy to a local property trust, if more existed?</p> Yes, this is indeed good news and I would like to flag up that in Hartland, North Devon we have a Town Trust which owns 7 properties in the village for rent to local people: they had 6 for a long time then an old lady in the village left them her cottage. The trust is run by a group of local volunteers who make sure that the tenants are local people in need. I think we need a movement like Vinoba Bhave’s in India many years ago which encouraged landowners to gift land to the landless. Perhaps there are many older people without relatives to leave their houses to who would like to leave a legacy to a local property trust, if more existed?

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