How concerned are you about the housing market?

We speak to the people of Newport about whether they’re concerned with the state of the housing market.

Transcript

00:00But I can understand these youngsters. I really can. I mean, you know, rentals is going through

00:09the roof. You know, they're just, we'll do this, we'll do that. But, you know, if they

00:15can get building societies to say, well, we don't need a 20% deposit. Like, I know some

00:21are doing it for five, but it's only on where I'm living. Terraced houses are about £80,000

00:27a week. It's very difficult, you know, especially the younger generations that get on the housing

00:33market now. Probably be a good thing to help them out. There is a lot of people that don't

00:38have accommodation, lots of people struggling even to find rented accommodation. So, yeah,

00:43that might be a good thing for youngsters. But what about us old people? Well, I think

00:48it's for the younger generation now, you know. It's very hard now to get on the housing market

00:54now. And, of course, the employment's not like it was in my day, like when I was a lot

00:58younger, you know.