Housing and rental prices are key issues for voters at the general election - and one that several have got in contact with us about.
He runs a small business, a record shop in Bristol selling successfully to music lovers. He can afford the rent on the shop, but not the rent on a flat as well. The housing crisis has become her number one issue in this election. Not for her generation, but her son’s. “At the last count, 80 people were counted on the street – and that’s the ones they could find,” he says.Mortgages are linked to interest rates and the economic markets.But, the 74-year-old recalls, the country has managed to build in tough times before.