Compulsory sale of property is routinely practised in the UK and is the means of choice for seizing property for any government project. The government can compel you to sell your land at its behest at any time under the premise of it being for the public benefit.
Because there is always a reliable margin in using property as an investment. You can charge rent to tenants whilst the value of your property increases so your basically more than doubling your money.
It is accurate, it doesn't need to be infrastructure.
Why? Property is highly valuable, specifically because of its usefulness; if it wasn't useful, it wouldn't have that value.
Yeah. Its a cunts game.
The public benefit is already very broadly interpreted. It is a pretty controversial topic mind.
You see where the problem here lies then in that the land is useful but is not being used because commodities don't need to useful to be valuable. Take gold reserves for example. That gold isn't being used but is useful because of its scarcity and traditional use as currency that carries to this day because the market deems it so. Only that as you have stated land is actually useful, and so should not be used as gold.
The potential for use makes it inherently valuable. I'm not sure how you imagine those things could logically be decoupled.
They can if it is for the public benefit and that part of the legislation is intentionally broad to allow government the flexibility to do as it pleases. In most cases the argument is that HM Government acts in the public benefit by virtue of being HM government.
Again, how exactly do you think that can be decoupled?
Put empty property on a punishing taxation scheme and see how quickly it becomes available for rental.
We need those 3D printed houses for super low income individuals because they're fuckkng great designs
Very simply, with punitive taxes on second homes/properties.
Houses are cheap. Land is expensive. That is especially true in London.
The Daily Mail is banned here.
And actually another thing we realised decades ago was the housebuilding was a great way to stimulate the economy. It creates a ton of jobs in all kinds of industries and was used to kickstart the post-war economy.
Problem is those most historically likely to vote are those landlords. The young need to keep turning out to turn the tables around on everything. Older folk have had free reign to do whatever the fuck they want in a lot of areas thanks to the young not turning up.
Everyone is still scared of Murdoch.
