Comments on: Visitors, owners, occupiers http://yorkstories.co.uk/visitors-owners-occupiers/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Sean http://yorkstories.co.uk/visitors-owners-occupiers/#comment-697005 Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:09:38 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=16411#comment-697005 Thank you, Lisa, for your thoughtful thought-provoking blogpost. (I liked the way you used your photos, too).

Nowt much I disagree with. I’m fortunate enough to be a CYC council tenant, in a fairly roomy secure-tenancy single-person flat. Way out west, here in Acomb.

I’m usually more concerned about non-human species. About the loss of biodiversity – or summat. But we live or die together, humans and others – don’t we?

For a town like York… Gentrification and studentification of the “housing-stock” almost appear “natural”?

Please keep banging on about the homes people live in, Lisa. (By choice – or not. In York – or otherwhere). No easy answers, obviously.

Regards
Sean

]]> By: Elizabeth Hardcastle http://yorkstories.co.uk/visitors-owners-occupiers/#comment-696903 Sun, 26 Sep 2021 18:17:45 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=16411#comment-696903 I agree with what you have written. We live close to York University. So many houses round us are HMOs (Houses of Multiple Occupancy). Semis built for families have been enlarged and converted into HMOs, front gardens lost to car parking. Small terrace houses (Wellington Street and the three streets that connect it with Heslington Road for example)would be perfect starter homes but are largely HMOs. As are many ex-council houses. Do we need so many apartments – how many will be lived in or be merely investment properties or airbnbs? (A number of cities are taking action to restrict the growth of airbnbs). Property articles in national newspapers name York as a good place in which to invest, the easy commute to London is flagged up. Local people are priced out. Aren’t houses supposed to be homes? With a sense of community? Until about 20 years ago many of my neighbours had lived around here since the houses were built (1938-1950s approx). Gradually people moved to non-student areas and now we owner occupiers are outnumbered by a transient population of students.
How times change.

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