The new Talk London

Is it just me who can not even afford 'Help to buy'? It's insanity that some of us are so poor that we can not even afford 'help to buy'. A scheme that is meant to help those on low income... nobody wants the responsibility of paying rent, mortgage and service charge on a percentage of small poorly built new build with a rubbish leasehold! £700k does not seem reasonable on a 2 bed flat on the help to buy scheme does it? It's not affordable at all! What I am struggling to understand is that you can give those on a low income a mortgage on a new build worth £700k on the help to buy scheme BUT not give them a mortgage on 3 bed house for £300k that is not on the scheme? We're on low incomes, why is it in our benefit to have a higher debt... Yes, we know we can buy the remaining percentage on the property but the rent, service charge and mortgage is already EXPENSIVE! Plus, by the time you can buy more percentages, the value of the property has sky rocketed... will you ever fully own it? Seems unlikely when you're scraping by. This is why we need more social housing!!! Some of us simply can't afford private rent nor these schemes that set you up for failure... it's SHOCKING! For those that think I am moaning. I'm not. This is the sad reality for young people. Despite my efforts to educate myself by obtaining both a bachelors and masters degree in architecture... whilst working two jobs... I am in no position to move out of the room I share with my sister in my parents council flat. This is not ideal for someone whose in their late 20's.  

The housing crisis in the city is becoming unbearable and inhuman. As a residents of this London City we have right for a decent housing, as the current situation for young/old people (incl myself) are struggling to be in the council housing ladder also when trying to rent a flat from a private landlords as they refuse to rent out to people with low income and those who are applying for Universal Credit. 

London need to work on this basic human rights for all it residents who are also tax-payers to let them live in diginity in this great city.

Thanks for adding a mobile view, I think it's starting to get there. I would make the "add yours" and "have your say" links a little bit more obvious. In the current design they don't really stand out from the rest of the text. I imagine these links are your most important call to actions.

Also, would the link text tell you when a user responds to your comment? 

What happens to the text when you've already contributed to the discussion? While I agree with the rest of the people here that a "liking" system seems a bit odd for this type of forum, having a system that notifies you when someone responds to your ideas would still be helpful. I think there's a difference between fleshing out ideas as part of a discussion and upvoting / downvoting ideas. If you wanted to combine the two elements (without going into a world of likes) you could add a filter to the thread to show "most discussed" ideas. 

Finally, I would find it helpful to have an info section on the timeline (perhaps collapsed by default until you click on it) that gives more background information on each step. What's the objective for the survey? What inputs do you want us to consider? 

For example, even in this discussion you've shared multiple versions of the design on the same thread. How would you do this kind of feedback collection on the new timeline? Using this thread as an example, it's hard to tell which designs the older comments refer to, because they have changed. At the same time, it's nice to show the older comments here because they provide context to the discussion. I would be in favour of "versioning" the questions asked by your team (perhaps include a changelog - what you now write in the email - with each version), and also labelling forum responses based on those versions. Give people an option to toggle to older versions to see how your thinking evolved.

The design looks more friendlier, eye catching and easy to use.  As a user being able to navigate through the system helps me to engage and be part of the developing the ecosystem.

It would be interesting to know if you have incorporated AI & DL tools to analyse our behaviours and what you intend to do with the data.  Overall I like it.

Thanks