‘It’s impossible to buy in London’: Should more be done to help first-time-buyers?

We asked Londoners if more should be done to help people buy properties in London. Here is what they had to say.

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00:00 It's impossible to buy in London. My girlfriend and I would love to move in together, but it's not possible.

00:09 I'm a creative, I need to be in town a lot, I teach a lot in town, which means I need to be living in the closer zones,

00:16 because if I'm only on one tube line, then I'm stuffed if the train lines are down.

00:23 So I need to be living really central, but then you're looking at houses which cost like half a million, a million.

00:32 I don't know, because of the rhetoric around how difficult it is for first-time buyers, I'm not thinking about buying a home for ages.

00:37 I'll probably be renting for many years.

00:40 Well, I think we need more properties. I think we have to fundamentally reform the way we go about planning.

00:47 I do understand the importance of devolving power to local communities, but I think in the national interest,

00:55 we do have to build higher density housing in urban areas.