Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Lord Waheed Alli, Charlie Parsons, & Bob Geldof 'STOLE' my Intellectual ...

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  1. https://www.justjared.com/2024/10/16/liam-payne-one-direction-member-solo-star-dies-at-31/

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  2. DIY, gardening, house design, cooking, baking, talent shows, and gameshows. When these concepts phase in and achieve ratings, they're copied by the other networks and then tweaked repeatedly until the idea is flogged to death. They're not creative people at all.

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  3. Millions of empty homes

    There is a housing crisis and a housing affordability crisis ... yet huge numbers of dwellings are vacant

    There are multiple empty homes, for every single homeless person in most Western countries

    Government statistics:

    'Of the 2.72 million dwellings in Scotland in 2023, 92,500 (3%) were vacant'
    https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files/statistics/household-estimates/2023/house-est-23-report.pdf

    'On Census Day, 21 March 2021, there were 1.5 million unoccupied dwellings in England and 120,450 in Wales. This is 6.1% of all dwellings in England and 8.2% in Wales.'
    https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/numberofvacantandsecondhomesenglandandwales/census2021

    'Canada Percentage of unoccupied dwellings, 2021 - 7.5%, 1.3 million'
    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000101

    USA - 'There is an average of 27.4 empty homes in the U.S. for each person experiencing homelessness.
    In 2021, there were over 15.6 million empty homes in the U.S. leaving, on average, 2.36% of all housing units per state in the U.S. vacant.'
    https://www.self.inc/info/empty-homes/

    It is similar across the EU, where some countries are starting to impose a 'vacancy tax' to encourage owners to either lease to tenants, or sell the home to someone who will either live in it or rent it out

    Apparently, tho, in many cases the rich landlords have tax benefits from NOT renting, and merely holding the property for eventual re-sale or re-development ... the tax laws being written for the benefit of toffs

    In other cases the problem is government regulation ... so many changes need to be made to bring a property up to current 'standards' (energy use, climate change etc) before it can be let, that the owners are too cash-poor to risk the investment

    It's a kind of societal madness ... people desperately needing affordable housing ... yet homes by the millions are empty

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