Total and utter bollocks. The developer community work to the ‘absorption rate’. If you can’t sell it at a 17% profit you don’t build it. There are 1.4m houses unbuilt with planning permission sittin… (View Post)

That’s what I’m getting at with my complaint about inequality up thread. If your only asset is unaffordable and you will never catch up if you risk it and lose, you ain’t gonna throw it away on an un… (View Post)

Unsustainable advances, mainly. Fossil fuels were not a bad thing to prime the civilisational pump but they are gonna fuck us all up soon enough. Anxiety about the future is a big thing undermining a… (View Post)

Things have felt constrained since 2004ish to me. There was confidence, investment, and possibility before 2003 but somehow that changed. The housing market maybe? Totally unhelpful post unless we ca… (View Post)

Sometimes I like your posts but I’m afraid it’s because they are so ludicrous they cheer me up. ( Redwood is totally bonkers. ) (View Post)