首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Rising Prices Cause House "Apartheid" 涨价导致房屋的“种族隔离” The Government has admitted that soaring house
Rising Prices Cause House "Apartheid" 涨价导致房屋的“种族隔离” The Government has admitted that soaring house
admin
2011-02-14
24
问题
Rising Prices Cause House "Apartheid"
涨价导致房屋的“种族隔离”
The Government has admitted that soaring house prices have left people on average incomes, such as teachers and nurses, locked out of buying their first homes across large parts of southern England, including London and most of the South East.
A spokeswoman for the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, admitted last night that there was now an effective "housing apartheid", with people in their own homes pulling further and further away from those yet to get on the property ladder.
With house prices rising at between 15 and 20 percent a year, incomes, which are rising at between 5 and 10 percent a year, cannot keep up.
"Increasing housing supply is a national priority. In large areas of the wider South East, house purchase remains out of reach for families with average household incomes," the official said.
A new report out tomorrow will reveal the full scale of the housing crisis. The study by Cambridge University for the housing charity Shelter reveals that the Government will need to spend £3.5 billion a year to solve the housing problem.
More than 50,000 new homes are needed every year to help people on lower incomes to have their own homes. By 2014 a city the size of Leeds will need to be built.
Critics point out that, without the money, millions of people employed in the public sector will be unable to move to the South East to fill vacancies.
Without a new influx of staff, many hospitals and schools say that they will struggle to maintain standards. The Government is now expected to announce a package of measures in the Budget to try to help first-time buyers. The Treasury is considering raising the point at which people have to pay stamp duty, a tax paid on every house purchase.
The present threshold of £60,000 has remained unchanged since 1993, despite house prices increasing by 160 percent in that time.
Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, faces being accused of maintaining the threshold as a way of raising more tax because as house prices rise more and more people are dragged into paying the surcharge. More than 75 percent of all first-time buyers now pay the tax.
"The Government has to act," said Adam Sampson , the director of Shelter. The lack of affordable housing has a destabilising effect on the economy and its cost in human terms is massive.
"Successive governments have spoken about the growing housing crisis. It has now got to the point where it cannot be ignored any longer. Housing should be given the same priority as the other key areas of public life, health and education. "
The report says that more than three-quarters of all new homes are needed in the South of England, with about 20 percent in the North and the Midlands.
Shelter’s figures on housing demand will form the basis of a Treasury review of housing to be published at the time of the Budget next week. The review, by Kate Barker, is likely to say that tens of thousands of new houses are needed and that planning restrictions should be relaxed so that housing developments can be built more easily.
She will also criticise a culture of nimbyism which has crept into many, particularly rural, towns. Many local communities block new housing even though it is desperately needed.
A study released this weekend by the Halifax revealed that first-time buyers cannot get on to the property ladder in 80 percent of towns and cities across the country. The bank said that areas were classed as "unaffordable" if first-time buyers needed to borrow more than 4.27 times the local average salary to buy a home.
By that calculation, 100 percent of towns and cities in East Anglia were out of reach of first- time buyers, while 98 percent of towns and cities in the South West were unaffordable.
The Government is set to announce large amounts of extra funding for house building in the Budget. By 2006 the amount spent will have increased by £900 million, or 25 percent.
There will also be a £5 billion pot of money provided for affordable housing by 2006.
What might NOT be the reason for the phenomenon that people on average incomes are unable to buy the houses?
选项
A、They have to pay high price stamp duty.
B、Their incomes rise too slowly.
C、House supply is decreasing.
D、House prices are rising.
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ZS5O777K
本试题收录于:
CATTI三级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI三级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
OrganicArchitectureOneofthemoststrikingpersonalitiesinthedevelopmentofearly-twentiethcenturyarchitecturewasF
OrganicArchitectureOneofthemoststrikingpersonalitiesinthedevelopmentofearly-twentiethcenturyarchitecturewasF
NarratorListentoalecturetalkaboutbassinbusinessclass.whichofthefollowingstatementsdoestheprofessorsuppo
PatentsandInventionsWhenaninventionismade,theinventorhasthreepossiblecoursesofactionopentohim:first,hec
ChangeintheCafeteria’sBreakfastMenuInanefforttoreducecostsforstudentsinlightofthenewbudgetrevisions,the
Thestudentsdiscusstwopossiblesolutionstothewoman’sproblem.Describetheproblem.Thenstatewhichofthetwosolutionsyo
CivilizationBeforeabout3500BC,therewerecultures,butnotcivilizations.Prehistoricmenandwomencreatedsocieties,
A、Sheneedstoimproveherstudyskills.B、She’llfeelbetterifshegetsomerest.C、Sheshouldmakeadoctor’sappointment.D、
Iknewnothingofthemotivesbehindhisrecentmove,andIdon’tknoweitherthepersontoputhimuptotheaction.
IntheUnitedStates,thefirstdaynurserywasopenedin1854.Nurserieswereestablishedinvariousareasduringthe【C1】______
随机试题
我刚刚埋下头,又听见小鸟的叫声。我再看,桂树枝上立着一只青灰色的白头小鸟,昂起头得意地歌唱。屋顶的电灯线上,还有一对麻雀在吱吱喳喳地讲话。我不了解这样的语言,但是我在鸟声里听出了一种安闲的快乐。它们要告诉我的一定是它们的喜悦的感情,可惜我不能回答它们。我把
IfIhadremembered______thewindows,thethiefwouldnothavegotin.
慢性支气管炎、肺气肿患者,血气分析结果为:pH7.38,PaCO281mmHg,给予吸氧后,PaO2维持多少较为合适?
下列呼吸音以外的附加音均只见于病理情况,除了
具有紫脲酸铵反应为平滑肌兴奋药
A.刺激性干咳B.长期晨间咳嗽C.带喉音的咳嗽D.带金属音咳嗽E.变换体位时的咳嗽肺脓肿常出现
背景资料某工程三侧紧邻该市主要大街,另外一侧为市区内待建用地,采用公开招标的方式选择施工单位,由某中央直属企业中标承建。由于本工程地理位置的特殊性,现场安全、文明施工直接关系到公司的形象。施工现场设置了专职的保洁员,负责现场日常的清扫和保洁工作。由于担心
下列关于中央银行货币政策效应的描述中,正确的有()。Ⅰ.当中央银行采取紧的货币政策时,股价一般将下跌Ⅱ.中央银行提高法定存款准备金率,货币供应量减少Ⅲ.中央银行提高再贴现率,货币供应量增加Ⅳ.中央银行执行松的货币政策通常使证券市
What’sthewomangoingtodo?
【B1】【B12】
最新回复
(
0
)