What do you see as affordable? I see affordable at less than £400 a month, if they are semi's that are £120,000+ then thats not affordable or indeed viable for young people in Feath on minimum wages of £5.80 an hour. These people earn £200 a week less tax which leaves them about £150 a week. If they have to pay £400 a month to live in a council house and they can't really afford that then how the hell can they afford £600 a month for a 120 grand semi?
Some young people will never ever be able to leave home in the forseeable future and never have an opportunity to own their home or even rent one for that matter. Its not just the cost of housing its the fact that some daft bastard introduced a minimum wage thinking it would stop young people being taken advantage of, instead it had the effect of every employer in the Country thinking 'I'm gonna pay ALL my staff the minimum wage, what a good idea'.
Now we've got 40-50 year olds on £5.80 an hour when previously they were on 8 and 9 quid an hour. It kind of set the president of how people would be paid in the future and if we won't work for that money there's plenty of Polish folk that will.
That minimum wage decision thrust this Country back into poverty almost over night and until someone raises it to 8 quid an hour we are going to have more and more poverty.
We are back in the 1930's and heading for Victorian britain with its slave labour.