'Full-time teachers - but we can't afford our own home'

The Cakaj family moved to Birmingham from London in the hope of being able to afford to buy a homeAfter moving from Kosovo in 1998 as war broke out, he said he had gone “from having dreams and expectations of having a place of my own to slowly realising that was never going to be possible".

“We’ve had to give up that dream as well because frankly, with deposits, whatever you can raise with the cost of living, that has been decimating any idea of savings. It’s never going to be enough,” Mr Cakaj said.He has called for a more balanced rental market in which housing costs less than 30% of a household’s monthly income which he says would allow renters to save up for a deposit.After more than two decades, Mr Cakaj feels ambivalent towards the UK.

The Labour party has promised to build 1.5 million new homes in England over the next five years. They say that stripping back planning rules will help facilitate this. They are also planning on reviving the Help to Buy scheme which would provide first-time buyers with an equity loan of up to 20% towards the cost of one of these new homes.

He has not been impressed by the education policies put forward by any party, and called Labour's plan to recruit 6,500 more teachers a “drop in the ocean”.

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