The end-game of this seems even more frightening than frustration in finding housing.
With ~40% of income going on housing, that’s less money to go into pensions (meaning being financially crippled at a time you’re unable to do a thing about it) and less money to go into starting a family (and there have been articles on that in the last two weeks on this sub).
…to say nothing of quality-of-life for those individuals, as it’ll eat heavily into any expensive recreational stuff like having a holiday, or a pricey hobby. The rest of the money will quickly be soaked up by anything from owning and running a car (essential for many thanks to lacklustre public transport and other methods being unsuitable) plus bills, food etc.
I’m skeptical that more housing will reduce the issue, as supply ain’t as important as cost. It might lower the bar slightly but the greedy will greed. It’s about expectation throughout the housing market, from landowners to developers and landlords of how much money they should earn, for what is, ostensibly, a public service, not a huge profit making business.
Small island, massive population increase. Who could have seen this coming
I guess Ireland and New Zealand aren’t developed now.
At least we’re better than France when it comes to quality of housing
You could have ended the sentence after “world” and it would still be correct
Well of course. Don’t you understand how increasing the supply of houses would effect house prices? /s
Still so many people think we must keep increasing the population “..or who will pay for our pensions?”
Resources are very finite – so numbers cannot keep growing. This conflct is at the root of all ecological and environmental problems which are all a million times more pressing than pension funds and an ageing workforce etc.
It’s a trade association representing home builders, trying to get the government to build more homes. Not some independent think tank. It’s a welcome proposal, but take assertions with grain of salt lol.
Land banking is the major problem. House builders are currently sat on around 1 million housing plots, most of which have planning permission. They do this to control supply and therefore make more profit on the houses they do build.
Local authorities who grant the planning permission for these sites should set a minimum time frame for building to start or permission be withdrawn and sites sold to someone else. The problem is these companies are all in it together, they are rigging their own market.
By the way, the building companies that are listed have paid more than 2 billion pounds in dividends last year.
Well, I’m not exactly surprised at this. England is a pretty dreadful place to live in in many ways. The whole country seems to be collapsing, no matter how many homes the Tories promise to build.
25 Nov 2022
Chris Bailey, national campaign manager for AEH, said: “After more than a decade of intense housing crisis it is shocking to see long-term empty homes in England rise to 257,331 – another 20,000 more wasted empties, while nearly 100,000 families are trapped in temporary accommodation, costing the nation over one and a half billion pounds a year.
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The end-game of this seems even more frightening than frustration in finding housing.
With ~40% of income going on housing, that’s less money to go into pensions (meaning being financially crippled at a time you’re unable to do a thing about it) and less money to go into starting a family (and there have been articles on that in the last two weeks on this sub).
…to say nothing of quality-of-life for those individuals, as it’ll eat heavily into any expensive recreational stuff like having a holiday, or a pricey hobby. The rest of the money will quickly be soaked up by anything from owning and running a car (essential for many thanks to lacklustre public transport and other methods being unsuitable) plus bills, food etc.
I’m skeptical that more housing will reduce the issue, as supply ain’t as important as cost. It might lower the bar slightly but the greedy will greed. It’s about expectation throughout the housing market, from landowners to developers and landlords of how much money they should earn, for what is, ostensibly, a public service, not a huge profit making business.
Small island, massive population increase. Who could have seen this coming
I guess Ireland and New Zealand aren’t developed now.
At least we’re better than France when it comes to quality of housing
You could have ended the sentence after “world” and it would still be correct
Well of course. Don’t you understand how increasing the supply of houses would effect house prices? /s
Still so many people think we must keep increasing the population “..or who will pay for our pensions?”
Resources are very finite – so numbers cannot keep growing. This conflct is at the root of all ecological and environmental problems which are all a million times more pressing than pension funds and an ageing workforce etc.
It’s a trade association representing home builders, trying to get the government to build more homes. Not some independent think tank. It’s a welcome proposal, but take assertions with grain of salt lol.
[Depression of 2026](https://www.progress.org/articles/the-depression-of-2026).
It is coming.
Land banking is the major problem. House builders are currently sat on around 1 million housing plots, most of which have planning permission. They do this to control supply and therefore make more profit on the houses they do build.
Local authorities who grant the planning permission for these sites should set a minimum time frame for building to start or permission be withdrawn and sites sold to someone else. The problem is these companies are all in it together, they are rigging their own market.
By the way, the building companies that are listed have paid more than 2 billion pounds in dividends last year.
Well, I’m not exactly surprised at this. England is a pretty dreadful place to live in in many ways. The whole country seems to be collapsing, no matter how many homes the Tories promise to build.
25 Nov 2022
Chris Bailey, national campaign manager for AEH, said: “After more than a decade of intense housing crisis it is shocking to see long-term empty homes in England rise to 257,331 – another 20,000 more wasted empties, while nearly 100,000 families are trapped in temporary accommodation, costing the nation over one and a half billion pounds a year.