Second Home owning – answers
Second Home owning – answers to the exercise
Summary of exercise – order of statements:
16 20 11 19 14 13 4 17 5 2 6 1 12
16 People who own second homes are criticised a lot at the moment.
20 I am a second-home owner.
11 A number of people have abandoned farming life.
19 Outbuildings often fall into disuse in such circumstances.
14 House-buyers have spent money on doing up non-residential buildings.
13 Buying properties to let to tourists creates jobs for local people.
4 Consequently, people who might otherwise have moved away from the area have stayed there.
17 If we make people pay taxes on their holiday homes here, people will just go and buy properties abroad.
5 Holiday homes attract other industries around them, and this again creates more jobs.
2 If we remove the financial incentive for second-home buyers this will create unemployment.
6 People are often priced out of the housing market in Great Britain.
1 House-prices are also often high in places where people do not holiday.
12 It is foolish to imply that solving the housing availability problem is obvious and straightforward.
These statements are NOT in the letter!!
3, 10, 15, 18 and 8 are implied, but not stated outright.
3 People like Georges Monbiot are just envious of people like me.
10 House conversions are essential to support local building-firms in the local economy.
15 I would rather put my money into the domestic property-market than invest abroad.
18 I am certain that purchasing a second home has actually been a positive rather than a negative contribution to the local economy.
8 Second-home owners are being scapegoated for a problem they have not created.