Margaret Thatcher: Thirty years on

[Crazed Rabbit]

Private landlords make huge profits while rents are high and tenants have barely any rights. There is a massive homelessness problem and working class people can't afford to buy.

If they are making huge profits, then new landlords would move into the marketplace and try to get some of that by providing more houses to rent. Unless, of course, regulations and other restrictions imposed by the government impede or prohibit the efficient building of new homes and apartments.

It's shameful when we are such a rich country that people still sleep in the subway.A national disgrace

There's always going to be a few people who aren't going to live in traditional homes. In the Seattle homeless population, there's some people who actually have homes, or relatives where they could stay, but they choose to live on the streets. Of course, that's not all of the homeless. But homelessness will never be fully done away with.

CR