Hi John,

Over 200 people have already signed up for this Thursday’s event: Banking on Property. Labour MP Tulip Siddiq and Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake are going to answer questions alongside the authors of Positive Money’s new report. It’s all about what’s driving the housing affordability crisis and how we can solve it.

People up and down the country are genuinely concerned about rising living costs. So we’re coming together on Zoom to talk about how our broken system is driving up rents and making it impossible for a growing number of people to own their own home.

John, if you can join us on Thursday, please register for free now. It will only take 2 minutes.

Banking on Property report launch webinar

Thursday 31st March, 10.30am - 12pm

Thanks for all you do,

Nicole, Rachel and the rest of the Positive Money team

Here’s the email we sent you last week with more background about the event:

Hi John,

Next week, we’re launching a new report that we’re really excited about. It’s called Banking on Property: what’s driving the affordability crisis and how to solve it.

We all know our economic model is broken - and it’s driving genuinely affordable homes out of reach for a growing majority of people. It’s a major part of the cost of living scandal. In 2022, this is totally unacceptable. Now we finally have a report which joins the dots on how we’ve got into this mess, and, crucially, how we get out of it.

Please will you join us at the launch webinar next Thursday morning? The authors, Laurie Macfarlane and Positive Money’s senior economist Danisha Kazi, will speak alongside, Tulip Siddiq, Labour's Shadow City Minister and Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake, who is the Chair of the APPG on Fair Business Banking. Then there’ll be time for questions.

So John, please will you submit your question and RSVP in 1 minute now?

Banking on Property report launch webinar

Thursday 31st March, 10.30am - 12pm

Did you know that UK house prices have gone up by an eye-watering 200% since 1980? [1] That’s how broken our economy is, and the only people who like it this way are the greedy landlords and bankers that profit from it. It’s getting harder and harder for young people to get on the housing ladder. And with social housing so few and far between, many people are stuck in the private rental sector, with high rents and poor living conditions - we talk about all this in the report.

We believe that housing should be genuinely affordable for everyone, not a financial asset for a few wealthy people. And more and more people are realising that our economic system needs to change this. So on Thursday, we’re going to come together and discuss how best to create a housing system that works for everyone.

John, please will you join us at the report launch to find out how we can come together to tackle the housing affordability crisis? Please RSVP below to submit any questions you have to the panel and to receive the Zoom link.

We hope to see you on Thursday,

Nicole, Rachel, Simon and the rest of the Positive Money team

PS: If you can’t join Thursday’s event, the recording of the event will be available on our website, YouTube and Facebook pages a few days afterwards.

Notes:

[1] Office of National Statistics Dataset: House Price Index: annual tables 20 to 39

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