London councils face bankruptcy over £330m overspend on homelessness

by Lazergun_Nun

16 comments
  1. How about £330 mil on new homes 🤯 what a contrarian, rare idea 🤯.

    Maybe have at least 1 nationalised building company that provides jobs in a terrible job market, tackles the cost of living and housing crisis 🤯

    This shitty ass government, the shitty ass government before and the shitty ass Reform government in 2029 who will be the Tories on crack with even more profiteering

  2. Councils would be spending less money on homelessness if they stopped pandering to NIMBYs whose opposition to new housing makes it more expensive.

  3. If only councils had a large stock of houses that they owned. People facing homelessness could be housed in them instead of councils paying landlords ever increasing sums of money.

    They could even call them council houses.

  4. wait since trump did it are politicians just going to hold up placards like that now

  5. This country is run by moral posturing idiots rather than pragmatism

  6. “Oh no, who could have forseen that selling off council property and then renting it back from private landlords would have resulted in massive budget overspend”

    Fuck the tories, fuck thatcher

  7. End right to buy, allow councils to borrow for house building, restore the council funding the Tories pulled.

  8. The irony. Maybe spend less on bicycle lanes and other useless projects when you can’t cover the basic needs.

  9. You mean the thing the Mayor said he’d solve in the first term but decided to just not? Yeah, I don’t care about other things people hold against him but the complete and utter failure on homelessness I do.

  10. Can you guys just declare this country bankrupt and a failed state already 🥱

  11. Less than 50% of British in London so who’s homeless ?

  12. So does this mean they will increase council taxes again?

  13. And yet we have developments – even not very flashy ones – sold first overseas. We have landlords with dozens of homes in their portfolios. And we have lots of homes bought as “investments”.

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