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Hippy’s one or two or five additional rental flats aren’t the issue.
I'm not so sure. I know a family who own 11 rental properties in London. Not once, at any time, has a single member of that family earned enough money to secure a mortgage to buy any individual one of those properties (barring the first one where they got help from a dying relative and self certed). I think a housing market where somebody can receive a cash windfall, buy a property and then buy 10 more without ever earning enough cash to buy the first one, is a system that is broken.
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The split between ‘middle’ and ‘working’ classes is a strange UK thing. Everyone in both groups is ‘working’ class; ‘middle’ class is just a forged identifier to break up class awareness.
Hippy’s one or two or five additional rental flats aren’t the issue. The problem is the framework that allows billionaires to accumulate and keep hundreds of billions of £ in a year while the people who created that wealth struggle to afford basic necessities, creating instability and heightening risk across the board (not to mention the immense amount of human suffering).