“The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose. No other policy, achievable within a Parliament, would have greater social and economic benefits”
@andyburnham.bsky.social👏
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/27/nearly-two-thirds-of-working-private-renters-in-england-struggle-to-pay-rent
@andyburnham.bsky.social👏
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/27/nearly-two-thirds-of-working-private-renters-in-england-struggle-to-pay-rent
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What you state is true however where is the land to be found?
The overiding objective was achieved in that the Tory Mafia were removed.
The next stage of sorting out the utter mess they left will not be an overnight job.
It may well mean further Govt changes BUT Never Tory or Reform
Council houses controlled the rental market, keeping private rents down, and for ING landlords to maintain their properties.
Now, you get evicted for asking for repairs.
We need the weaponry just as much, including a nuclear capability (not necessarily trident).
Energy, water, transport, housing, health care could all fall under these categories.
Policing is an area where we have witnessed gross failure in oversight bodies.
That'll stop land banking which is a major problem holding back building.
Rents are high because of the excessive 40% taxes and stamp duty on landlords, so that could be given back to tenants as a rebate- vastly reducing their outgoings😍
https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/
a policy which could even pay for itself eventually
even people on benefits would need less if they were in social housing thus cutting the social security bill
Then there’s the question of adapting to quicker more eco building methods & labour training to achieve this.
Then there’s the availability of materials; a lot more red tape for for imported ones; higher demand results in higher material costs as they become scarce.
Hurdles
every new housing project of any size is evaluated for the services it needs and some have to include GP surgeries etc.
Pubs arent essential.
Most towns are just a collection of villages that somehow expanded to meet.
As to evaluation. Well their analysis is flawed cos we have no NHS dentists, the GP surgery is overwhelmed & more housing is coming.
No one has a dentist, it's a legacy of 14 yrs of failure, same with GPs, give the new govt time!
I think the world would be a better place with less alcohol in it
And, like virginity or popping a balloon, it is irreversible.
Do you think we would get the same deal we had before?
Try selling having the euro as our currency and see how people react
there would be nothing easy about joining Shengen, or the EEA, and you dont want a vote because you recognise you wouldnt win.
I was confused about your stance.
I am not sure that decimalisation was necessarily a good thing
a pound is only divisible by 2, 4, 5, and 10
an old pound was divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12
If you build new estates and there is no employment or infrastructure nearby then you will end up with ghost towns.
Surely knocking down all the poorly built and maintained buildings and creating energy efficient buildings in existing towns makes more sense.
There are not enough houses. The nuclear family is largely extinct now, we need more housing, and it needs to get better at pace.