Maybe if councils, community groups and statutory consultees didn’t drag out the planning process and require an ever-increasing amount of levies and agreements that crush viability, we’d actually get more housing built.
Realistically, nothing is going to change while the Labour party has so many wealthy donors who are exploiting the war on affordable housing.
Starmer needs voters and donors/support from media oligarchs and they want opposite things, but ultimately one of those two groups is easier to fool.
Speaking from painful experience, developing in London is not viable at the moment. A grown up conversation is needed about how to pay for Affordable Housing.
“Affordable homes” is a bullshit term. Either you mean taxpayer subsidised or you’re telling housebuilders to sell at a loss since land costs make up the majority of house prices. Either we build houses for the market that can afford them at a volume that saturates the market (which should free up cheaper housing down the ladder) or we need to tackle the real issue and force landowners to sell well below market rate.
We have a Labour government and a Labour Mayor. No more excuses. Before it was ‘the Tories aren’t fixing this’. Well, now Labour can prove they can improve things – otherwise they’re no better than the Tories.
Just 👏 build 👏 more 👏 houses
Council homes or GTFO. I’m sick of the affordable homes bollocks. Not affordable and dibs always go to those with the capital to buy-to-let. This is an unmitigated crisis that needs urgent attention.
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Maybe if councils, community groups and statutory consultees didn’t drag out the planning process and require an ever-increasing amount of levies and agreements that crush viability, we’d actually get more housing built.
Realistically, nothing is going to change while the Labour party has so many wealthy donors who are exploiting the war on affordable housing.
Starmer needs voters and donors/support from media oligarchs and they want opposite things, but ultimately one of those two groups is easier to fool.
Speaking from painful experience, developing in London is not viable at the moment. A grown up conversation is needed about how to pay for Affordable Housing.
“Affordable homes” is a bullshit term. Either you mean taxpayer subsidised or you’re telling housebuilders to sell at a loss since land costs make up the majority of house prices. Either we build houses for the market that can afford them at a volume that saturates the market (which should free up cheaper housing down the ladder) or we need to tackle the real issue and force landowners to sell well below market rate.
We have a Labour government and a Labour Mayor. No more excuses. Before it was ‘the Tories aren’t fixing this’. Well, now Labour can prove they can improve things – otherwise they’re no better than the Tories.
Just 👏 build 👏 more 👏 houses
Council homes or GTFO. I’m sick of the affordable homes bollocks. Not affordable and dibs always go to those with the capital to buy-to-let. This is an unmitigated crisis that needs urgent attention.