THE QUESTION
Why can working people no longer afford a home here?
Group cards you judge alike. Groups organise reading; they decide nothing.
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Clusters form from similarity, names come last
Canonical order: link pairs of ideas you judge similar — links are symmetric (A~B is B~A; direction never matters) and a tie holds once 2 members make it.
why
Links are symmetric — A~B is B~A. Clusters are the groups that emerge from held ties, and only a formed cluster can be named, by a person. Your own links carry a ✕ to withdraw; you cannot remove someone else's. Clusters organise the wall and never gate the vote — two cards making the same CLAIM are a merge back in Clarify.
Links and names are made while Cluster is live; the steward’s ← reopens it.
Rents are set by what the last desperate person agreed to
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
Nothing said yet.
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Complaining about damp gets you a section notice
~ The only leverage a t…The only leverage a tenant has is leaving (18)
The only leverage a tenant has is leaving
~ Complaining about dam…Complaining about damp gets you a section notice (18)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
The people who decide have never been served a notice
~ The word 'housing cri…The word 'housing crisis' is used by people who own two (15)
The word 'housing crisis' is used by people who own two
~ The people who decide…The people who decide have never been served a notice (15)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
Nobody will rent to you without three months up front
~ You cannot register w…You cannot register with a doctor without an address (11)
You cannot register with a doctor without an address
~ Nobody will rent to y…Nobody will rent to you without three months up front (11)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
There is no register of who owns what
~ You are asked for a g…You are asked for a guarantor who owns property (19)
You are asked for a guarantor who owns property
~ There is no register …There is no register of who owns what (19)
unnamed cluster — name it if the group has a common thread, or leave it unnamed (2)
One late payment ends a tenancy and starts a record
~ Children change schoo…Children change school every time the tenancy ends (16)
Children change school every time the tenancy ends
~ One late payment ends…One late payment ends a tenancy and starts a record (16)
· not yet clustered (26)
A viewing is forty people in a corridor
Nobody enforces the standards that already exist
Being evicted once makes the next tenancy harder to get
A tenants' association is treated as a nuisance
The agent charges both sides and represents neither
Benefit is paid a month late and arrears are grounds for eviction
The owner is a company in another country
People stay in a bad flat because moving is worse
~ The flat is cold beca…The flat is cold because the landlord pays no heating bill (20)
Building anything takes years of permissions
Rents are set by what the last desperate person agreed to
Migrants are asked for documents the law does not require
Reporting a landlord takes a year and you have moved by then
The flat is cold because the landlord pays no heating bill
~ People stay in a bad …People stay in a bad flat because moving is worse (20)
~ My rent pays someone …My rent pays someone else's mortgage on the flat I live in (18)
~ Nobody knows what the…Nobody knows what the flat next door pays (14)
We are the majority here and have no seat anywhere
A guarantee requirement excludes anyone whose parents rent
Nobody has ever asked us what would fix it
~ Nobody knows what the…Nobody knows what the flat next door pays (10)
Every move costs a month's rent in fees and vans
Rents rise faster than wages every year
Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners
Nobody knows what the flat next door pays
~ My rent pays someone …My rent pays someone else's mortgage on the flat I live in (16)
~ Nobody in my building…Nobody in my building knows their neighbours (16)
~ The flat is cold beca…The flat is cold because the landlord pays no heating bill (14)
~ Nobody has ever asked…Nobody has ever asked us what would fix it (10)
Half my street is students and the other half is short lets
Nobody can afford to live where the work is
My rent pays someone else's mortgage on the flat I live in
~ Nobody knows what the…Nobody knows what the flat next door pays (16)
~ The flat is cold beca…The flat is cold because the landlord pays no heating bill (18)
Nobody in my building knows their neighbours
~ Nobody knows what the…Nobody knows what the flat next door pays (16)
The council has four inspectors for forty thousand homes
The cheapest flats have the highest bills