Focus On: Housing - Families in limbo as Britain loses its battle to build homes | ITV News

[@FerminTrujilloEspetero]

This country is in an absolute mess!!!

[@tvted6160]

Blame the politicians, you vote for them after all. Hold them to account. Decade after decade they get away with wars and wasting our money, but no one does a thing……sad, wake up people!

[@alexsteven.m6414]

Because so many people overpaid for homes even while loan rates were low, I believe there will be a housing catastrophe because these people are in debt. If housing costs continue to drop and, for whatever reason, they can no longer afford the property and it goes into foreclosure, they have no equity since, even if they try to sell, they will not make any money. I believe that many individuals will experience this, especially given the impending mass layoffs and rapidly rising living expenses.

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[@belobelonce35]

Soon, cheap homes won't be cheap anymore because prices today will look like dips tomorrow. I think inflation will cause panic until the Fed tightens its grip even more. You can't just pull the band-aid Off half way. Booms and busts are the ups and downs of the economy, and they will affect any investments. If you are at a crossroads or need honest advice on the best steps to take right now, it is best to get counsel from a financial expert.

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[@Motionbuck]

The party can build all the houses it likes, the trouble is it HAS to be affordable, not £400k, first time buyers simply cannot afford that. And its a rip off because it'll be a tiny rabbit hutch with 2 bedrooms that consist of an actual bedroom and a cupboard being classified as a bedroom.

[@lyndacrosfill6340]

That's what's been built everywhere as soon as a couple start a family it's back up for sale plus zero hour contracts are becoming the normality for employment how are those people supposed to buy what's happening where we are private land lords buying them up living in them for 6 months then renting so people are back to square one rents far too high and no affordable housing a one bedroom house starts at £200k that's not first time buyers price what's needed is social housing bungalows that would free up 2-3+ bedroom houses for family's.

[@Susan-kd3rv]

Also with incoming population it’s never going to be enough , they can build a billion still won’t be enough with immigration and certain birth rates .

[@waynenash6008]

It won't be possible to build affordable homes due to the governments housing stipulations, such as heat pumps instead of boilers etc

[@Mercury88-b7k]

It is disgusting that hard working families have to endure these obscenities. Just ridiculous

[@amrizzle]

Those NIMBYs denying they are NIMBYs was not fooling anyone 😂

[@martinebon4333]

Funny that he was not sure if he will allow council houses being built. A lot of individualistic mindsets preventing any progress in affordable housing.

[@SkintLivingUK]

Too many boomers moan about things but get in the way of change - they are NIMBY's despite their denials. I'm gen-x and I'm planning on downsizing next year to give my 2 grown up children a deposit for their own home from the equity - as the government is worse than useless. BUILD MORE SOCIAL HOUSING so people can afford to live!

[@MrSebastianBlake]

I know right.

[@trildi]

@@martinebon4333 Have you lived with council tennants around you? Get back to us when you do.

[@martinebon4333]

@@trildi yes, i know and have worked with people who live in council houses. They also work in the NHS like I do. I would have you know that they are decent hardworking individuals that unfortunately are being paid meager salaries hence they have no choice but live in council houses.

[@la-dechealexander9701]

What is affordable housing ? Does that statement make sense in 2024. Salaries are not increasing yet Inflation is so what’s affordable when salaries are not rising to accommodate cost of living? The problem is property builders are getting too greedy and government MPs are invested in it.

[@m0o0n0i0r]

homes prices at 3.5 times median salary I would think. I say this as mortgages were priced at that level and the economy was generally in a decent state where people could invest etc etc

[@marcus.H]

Salaries are increasing. They are outpacing inflation. Property builders stock prices have fallen.

[@glsmokerUSCOOLHIPHOPCHANNELGMG]

Affordable house should be something around 90k for a terraced house and 60k for a 2bed flat

[@m0o0n0i0r]

@@marcus.H You mean CPI right? CPI doesnt take in to account housing costs

[@la-dechealexander9701]

@@marcus.H you chatting nonsense mortgages rate from 2021 to now have increase 20% I am a home owner . Salaries have not increase 20% im a public servant. See the problem is ppl like you come out with statement and have cooked stats and lie to the ppl. Ask any home owner if the few percentage increase they have cover the increase on their mortgages? No !! So imagine got those ppl who trying to get on the property ladder. We have too much greedy property builders that’s the issue.why should it cost 100k to build but you add 250k for a profit isn’t that greed.

[@Riggsnic_co]

fear a housing crash due to people buying homes above asking prices with little equity. If prices drop, affordability and potential foreclosures may arise, worsened by future layoffs and rising living costs. I want to invest more than $300k, but I'm not sure on how to mitigate risk.

[@Jamessmith-12]

Consider reallocating from real estate to other reliable investments like stock, crypto or precious metals . Severe recessions offer market buying opportunities with caution, as volatility can yield short-term trading prospects. Not financial advice, but it may be wise to invest, as cash isn't ideal in this period.

[@kevinmarten]

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[@kevinmarten]

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[@JacquelinePerrira]

She appears to be well-educated and well-read. I ran an online search on her name and came across her website; thank you for sharing.

[@Kwippy]

Lost the battle to build homes. Lost the battle to warm up the corpse of the NHS. But won the battle for tax cuts. You get the government you deserve.

[@marcus.H]

NHS funding is at record highs and so are taxes

[@stumac869]

Taxes are also at record levels.

[@marcus.H]

@@stumac869 it appears many people on here are literally just making ideas up and others are giving these made up facts likes. It's weird

[@kanedNunable]

not with FPTP. most people despise the tories but they usually win

[@adam7802]

Won the battle for tax cuts? I wish. The working class are being taxed to death which is part of why nobody can afford things.

[@glassmuxxic]

Expecting the same NIMBYs, developers and politicians who happily oversaw the collapse of home ownership for the under-40s and watched their own house prices skyrocket to solve this problem is delusional.

[@mamaw4732]

Actual question here, why aren't there young people on these councils? Seems like the reason there are no voices for new home owners is because councils are filled with retirees?

[@glassmuxxic]

@@mamaw4732 Apathy, money and time. Many young people are already priced out of these places; and even if they’re not, cannot afford to take a formally unpaid position on top of their existing work. Councillors are paid expenses, but not a formal salary.

[@mamaw4732]

@glassmuxxic thank you for the answer. Seems the developers would be better off paying for a campaign to elect younger councillors than the expenses of appealing the rulings all the time

[@AlanM22]

Developers want to build more affordable homes but because residential land (because it is in short supply and bidded over) is super making the housing built on that land expensive also. Even a 2 bed flat in central London only costs £170k-£230k depending on spec to build it’s the land under it that makes it expensive.

[@beltingtokra]

The leaders went on about building more houses, but no mention of doctors, schools, dentists, hospitals. Putting pressure on already struggling areas for these. 😢

[@adam7802]

It's ok, labour is just going to make them all work overtime - not like they aren't doing it already!

[@adam7802]

​@educational1651 Your not wrong, but these people like doctors and nurses for example are not getting paid for their overtime I'm pretty sure 😂

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

Our leaders talk a lot build nothing and open borders to floods of migrants

[@Chewie260]

You know what, its because addressing these issues means addressing the root cause of them, but that would make you quilty of the primodial sin in this new modernist religion, racism, cuz you dare point out maybe the goverment cant handle a couple of million extra mouths to feed.

[@allykhan8594]

from £750,000,000,000 of taxes RAISED & borrowing £350,000,000,000 £180,000,000,000 goes to the NHS, £269,000,000,000 goes to welfare £80,000,000,000 goes to Tax Credits and other benefits £110,000,000,000 goes to Pensions to name the big ones. Taxes represents 38% of GDP so want you want to do raise more taxes? So some of us that work may choose to stop doing that harm.

[@louiseburke8012]

I bought at house in 2010 in the crash for £124.999, right under the stamp duty barrier. I was 28 and an NHS nurse and had saved for years. I am now 42 and my salary is £28k, my house is worth £260k. I still owe 30k. I am just grateful for the little I have, had I been born in 1993 rather than 83, my life would be very different and owning a home would be never never

[@davidowen2396]

"Affordable" means very expensive instead of very very expensive. It's a joke. We need to stop seeing housing as a cash-cow. Housing should ALWAYS be about providing secure, affordable homes for all. It's horrible when you hear people saying that they've bought a second, buy to let house "as my pension" . What about the lives of the occupants FFS....

[@ashotofmercury]

This!! 🙌🏻✊🏻

[@2525Hudson]

As a landlord myself, yes my properties are part of my pension, i only got them after Gordon Brown wrecked the private pension market. Its that simple, if we had a class leading state pension and private pensions were made easier and less taxed...... i would never have invested. If you want change, change the govts that have been in power since the war, or you will be getting more of the same with Sir Kneeler.

[@davidowen2396]

@@2525Hudson Two wrongs don't make a right eh?

[@2525Hudson]

@@davidowen2396 That kind of thinking will have you visiting food banks when you're older, its everyones right and in fact duty to look after themselves and their family......... that is exactly what i have done, if others wish to make decisions based on a moral highground point of view, then so be it...... but they will pay for it in the future.

[@davidowen2396]

@@2525Hudson You seem to assume that I'm young! Lol..There are plenty of ways of achieving solvency through hard work and behaving ethically (at least that's my experience). I look forward to the reform of housing law; swinging back in favour of tenants; providing security and permanence. Let's hope the bottom doesn't fall out of the housing market for you...otherwise you may end up at the local soup kitchen yourself!

[@Samuels691]

Take a look at the type of people opposing house building. These elderly people that are a bit removed from reality.

[@davidthomson692]

U mean ones who paid their mortgage off in their late 50s early 60s

[@LS-ot6vd]

They don't care about the future because they aren't going to be here. They just care about their own selfish little worlds and lives now, in the present.

[@WatchthisandChill]

on the one hand, the young need housing, yet old people who own houses don't want more houses built?

[@mister7302]

One of my old landlords had in excess of 60 residential properties. There should be a limit.

[@live_monkey2485]

That woman who was like, "I've lived here 40 years and I don't want to see..."... She's just purely selfish. People need homes. Why should her personal feelings prevent hundreds of people getting affordable homes?

[@mrslondy]

Because she is fascist. She doesn't like people in general. Very English though...

[@jhonnybravo2243]

Seriously. They have rights over the land that they own, but why should they have a say if there are homes built on land that they don't own? I know that obviously they are part of the community, and so their voices should be taken into consideration, but if their own desires prevent someone else from being able to have a home, then their opinions should be given less importance.

[@dcanes5720]

If they were honest, what they are really afraid of is BROWN people being put in these new homes!

[@endlessglizzys_.0233]

That's a funny attitude she has to have in a very overpopulated Country. We would all love to have loads of space but sadly every patch of green area will be built over if not today then tomorrow.

[@trildi]

Why destroy beautiful natural landscapes, when you have abandoned town centres, brown fields and car parks to build over?

[@FlamingDragon-fz1bp]

Thats what happens when you flood a tiny island with millions of foreign nationals. Higher prices. Supply and demand 101.

[@Aman1012]

its so obvious. Many still don't get it.

[@MB-sj2lx]

Same in Ireland, we could build 100k houses and 200k indian lads would move in

[@1987LOZ1987]

I find it strange most people don't get it. 1.2 million migrants last year, plus 50k or more illegal. Rents at record levels, Council House waiting list over 1.2 million, NHS waiting lists unbearable, hard to get GP or Dental appointments, mental health teams in crisis, school placement issues, water companies unable to cope, the ever rising energy costs and a multi billion black hole of debt. Yet we continue to send billions abroad, allow millions to come legally and don't stop the boats.

[@Saturday6547]

The reason the property prices are high, is solely due to the banks, they decide what the property value is, as they are the ones who provide the mortgages, to protect their investment, it is in their interest to keep house prices high.

[@sandrafinbar]

It's also about supply and demand. If there is a shortage of homes the prices goes up. Lots of vacate houses to rent the rental price goes down.

[@leo75757]

​@@sandrafinbarit's fake supply and demand. They just teach u that to make you think prices are high because of the market meanwhile they set the prices. It's all a game to make more money

[@leo75757]

​@@sandrafinbarit's fake supply and demand. They just teach u that to make you think prices are high because of the market meanwhile they set the prices. It's all a game to make more money

[@richardosbourne3346]

Come to the midlands and ask people here how difficult it is to privately rent. Our wages are among the lowest in the country. The rent is beyond ridiculous and unaffordable. My local council refuse to house someone like me who's a single male with 3 animals. I'm expected to give them up ! This country has gone to S**t

[@ThehulkGreen]

I worked in Cheltenham, I looked after an old man named Brian at the bottom of the hill, at the top of the hill I seen mansions on my walk up there, I was seen as a criminal, I was only walking.

[@allykhan8594]

Never give up the animals! Good luck!

if the rules are no animals then yes you have to give up. i would if it meant not being homeless..!

[@Christina-g4s]

I hate that they use "average" salary. Use the mode salary. Most in full time work earn under 25k Make that 20k after tax. It's about £1600 a month. That's pants

[@northwestcoast]

I like the median

[@fireat40]

nearer to 1800 actually after personal allowance but I get your point

[@Christina-g4s]

@@northwestcoast median is the middle number. Don't forget you have to include millionaires and billionaires. The median would be hundreds of thousands.

[@mrmeldrew693]

700,000+ net new arrivals in a year and a 'target' of 300,000 new houses. The crisis will ONLY get WORSE until demand is addressed by drastically reducing inward migration for a period and catching up. No mention of hospitals/schooling/all other servies either.

[@esparda07]

"I'm not a NIMBY" - NIMBY Literally blocking development on their backyards. Do these people not speak English or something? Nobody will remember these folks outside of this video...what a legacy.

[@Motionbuck]

That's probably her massive kitchen they are sitting in too.

[@patricequinn7733]

The main problem is the financialization of housing. Short term rentals,investor monopoly,speculators buying property and raising rents etc. Also it's often assumed that because someone can't afford rents they must be of the criminal element-so homeowners reject the idea of having such people living near them. The financialization of housing is VERY divisive as well as unfair,

[@laurentivoli1183]

Exactly, career developers and flippers have a huge responsibility for this inequality. Same as the Right to Buy crowd of the 80's, taking council houses out of stock.

[@allykhan8594]

You need communism, bu which style?

[@drhfuhruhurr4253]

We have a housing crisis partly because of the huge numbers of people flooding into our country in recent years, something ITV supports. It will bet worse under Labour.

[@kellymckeever.6]

Correction 😂....it's due to the Government not building enough affordable social housing....the buy to let greedy landlords and the bank of England....

[@Thatdontsurpriseme]

But 700,000 extra people every year isn't going to help that

[@strategystuff5080]

Understand that the Aristocrats have been lying to you, they want migration. hence why since Brexit it has gone up 500%. They don't want strong workers. they want cheap exploitable labour, that also acts as a scape goat. I assume Labour would do something about immigration. I don't know why you would assume otherwise, except for believing the lies you have been told. Its not like migrants can vote. high immigration doesn't do anything for labour.

[@lordprotector3367]

@@kellymckeever.6 Actually, it's a combination of both. It's impossible (and undesirable) to build half a million houses every year just to house the 750,000 net migrants every year, yet not much social housing is built. When it is, it is highly subsidised and unfair for everyone else.

[@thenanlife1141]

Just build more local authority houses . Plenty of sites available , disused military bases that are standing empty and overgrown !! A lot of people just can t afford private rentals, especially with a family .. This country needs to get its act together big time and make affordable housing main priority !

[@euannicol5316]

If we had only had secure borders, our population would be in decline and we’d all have affordable housing. This is the elephant in the room…

[@johnsmith-ht3sy]

True in the 1980s I lived in London and the population was declining, life was so much easier to buy a home and get work.

[@AbigailBrown-wk7xl]

Build more affordable council houses for families that eventually families can buy . 375,000 for a family is unaffordable. It is to little to late

[@seanrm]

100k for a 2-bed semi in Somerset? "Within 5 miles of Somerset" on Rightmove includes large parts of South Wales - lol

[@MrSebastianBlake]

I think that’s the slow realisation I’m noticing we’ve left it too late now that people will have to move into new areas that are cheaper.

[@zr9145]

Council flats are sold leashold. The whole things a scam..

[@flossydonnellon4893]

Thatcher and her crazy idea of being able to buy your council property was the start of this housing crisis, selling off housing stock created homelessness , if you can afford to buy a home move out of social housing and let someone less fortunate So No to selling Council Homes

[@hubbletelescope1721]

Council houses should never be for sale.

[@Wishing_you_peace]

UK is a landlords paradise. 275,000 Air B n Bs

[@stocko5448]

i wonder why?

[@tangerinebabe1]

Wrong, I would prefer tenants in my properties, but when things go bad I need the law on my side and it's not. So my properties will remain Airbnbs. Simple.

[@Jonnyicey]

Lots of them are stuggling

[@xx-wp3mq]

@@Jonnyicey "struggling" haha, stfu. Maybe they should SELL then to people who need it.

[@Jonnyicey]

@@xx-wp3mq I'm not defending them, just saying the market 4 years ago was good now it's saturated and many of them can't even get them occupied for the 105 days they need to get the tax benefits. So it's not a paradise for air bnbs.

[@Manoharan]

Solution: 1. Ban companies and high networth individuals investing in properties. 2. A person cannot hold more than 1 house in his name. 3. Landlords who already own more than 1 home should sell the rest. 4. In a household you can not own more than 2 homes. 5. You should be minimum 18 to register a house in your name. Time period : 2 years.

[@allykhan8594]

Nice, let's just leave the country with our money too. You keep the houses. i cannot understand how indigenous people still homeless even a generation was given council houese. Too much cod and fish i guess.

[@1987LOZ1987]

Fixed your terrible solution: 1. Stop allowing 1.2 million migrants to move to the UK every year. 2. Stop the 50k illegal migrants coming every year. 3. Increase house building gradually to accommodate the millions of migrants that arrived in the last few years. 4. Build more council houses. 5. Children already cannot own houses 🙄.

[@Drew-b9p]

People wouldn't mind a reasonable number of houses being added sympathetically if the architecture was excellent but when you have one of the few remaining delightful towns with a massive estate tacked on and all of the new houses being often shoddily built but also just a repeat bog standard design it is utterly dystopian...

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

Crisis you created with greed

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

And selfishness. Homeowners don’t want other people to own homes.

[@deusdex1186]

With mass migration.

[@allykhan8594]

Crisis creted having too many children born oustide marraige and single parents and too much welfare at £350,000,000,000 a year.

[@perolagrande]

House prices are high because of a lack of supply, simply not building enough homes to meet demand. Rents are high because house prices are high, the two go together. Government policy is making things worse by boosting demand even more, rather than encouraging supply. High net migration is boosting population growth at an unprecedented pace. Help to buy just boosts demand, supporting high prices. A radical change of policy is needed to reverse these trends.

[@ianc7866]

No, it's becasue of excessive demand you plank

[@adam7802]

@@andromeda_25 If immigration stopped tomorrow we STILL don't build enough housing to meet demand of the population.

[@adam7802]

@@ianc7866 You've literally just said the same thing with different words. More demand than supply = prices go up.

[@ianc7866]

@@adam7802 it's a demand issue, ot a supply issue. As had been observed for decades.

[@adam7802]

@@ianc7866 We don't build enough houses for the current population even if immigration stopped today, so you're just plain wrong.

[@BobBuilder-mq9wr]

Deport and build £50k pop up homes for a temporary messure till more real houses can be built . 200k houses a year when 1 million are coming in its beyond a scam

[@levantos]

You build more houses, they'll eventually all be bought by landlords in 30-40 years. New houses only solve the problem until those first people who bought it sell up, then what? You've potentially alleviated the rental market prices by a little bit long term. Also I'm not saying Landlords are the only the factor, there's a few other major ones as well (immigration, salary stagnation, stealth taxes, student loan debt, inflation etc).

[@andrewh2u]

We have lots and lots of brownfield land, now that we are a post-industrial nation, so why try and concrete over greenfield land or farmland which could be used for agriculture? The low rental cost 'council houses' which the government released under 'right to buy' legislation decades ago was supposed to have the money reinvested into further affordable rental housing stock - so where is all that new rental housing..... not built. The idea of stopping evictions and bringing in rent control is going to do *exactly* what it has done *everywhere* else that this has been done, which is to drive small private landlords - thats right the affordable ones - to pull out of the rental market and sell up to private ownership or large corporate........ and then you have less rental supply and higher demand and it doesnt take a genius to know what happens to prices under the law of low supply and high demand. However, our politicians are *not* genius but just vapid vote chasers who care no further than the next election cycle.... so watch this space as everything gets worse!

[@chrysalis4126]

It's more expensive to build on brownfield sites so developers make less profit hence the reluctance.

[@amandadavenport1994]

Councils were FORBIDDEN from spending sale proceeds on new build social housing 😡

[@derekmain9914]

Homes under the hammer is to blame ! The programme shows greedy buggers who buy and then rent out to buy another house to rent out and the story carries on people should be allowed to own one house any other gets hot by higher taxes and treble council tax

[@rgyhad484]

Haha don't be ridiculous

[@ZenKaizen7]

This is exactly what’s happening. Higher landlord expenses mean higher rents! Same with grocery bills

[@derekmain9914]

@@rgyhad484 why should people be allowed to own numerous houses when people can’t get houses even though the May have saved for a deposit but businesses and greedy landlords making excess amounts of money from high rents keep gazumping young couples

[@rgyhad484]

@@derekmain9914 if there were no private landlords the UK would be in a terrible place

[@ashotofmercury]

You're seriously blaming a TV show for this mess? OK! 🤔🤦🏻‍♀🤣

[@fionagordon6829]

Affordable normally means 30% less than market value … still unaffordable in real terms based on current wages

[@balance3201]

No point building new homes no one can afford. Capitalism.

[@marksavage1108]

We dont have capitalism anymore, we have had corporate globalism for 20 years,

[@allykhan8594]

Yeah! We need Cuban communism fast. maybe free cigars too.

[@balance3201]

@@allykhan8594 definitely the cigars 💥

[@DRventura333]

There are so many vacant buildings that can be repurposed for tenant occupancy. These can be used for the many single men and women who are living on the street as rent has skyrocketed and they are unable to pay with their meager salaries. Maybe incentives to those building owners could entice them to do this venture. Also, there so many vacant lands that can be used for affordable social homes for the families who are working.

[@WeBO557]

and how many of these houses are actually going to go to English people that deserve to have a home in there own country and not going to some migrant from the other side of the world who as no right being here?

[@Christina-g4s]

This is why I'm against the social housing proposals. They don't go to the working poor, it goes to those who don't work or just arrived. I'm stuck renting but how awful would it be to find the house and area you spent a lot of money on one day becoming a dumping ground for undesirables. Or becoming a place where you feel like a foreigner in your own country.

[@allykhan8594]

Check ONS it has the answer 95%

[@Oharadanny123abcdefg]

And yet people are not protesting in the streets, they're typing aggressive messages out on social media and moaning about it. Join a trade union, join a tenants' union, join any organised collective group and fight for the change you want and be prepared for the long haul with lots of losses. That's the reality.

[@mrslondy]

Politicians won't listen! They go with approved program from Washington and no. 1 agenda is Ukraine and her beggars.

[@allykhan8594]

Join house building union!!

[@RUSSELLCHADBOURN]

Plenty of housing for illegal immigrants

[@allykhan8594]

If you check the ONS almost 95% of council houses goes to British Citizens.

[@judebutler535]

Why 1700 homes!!!! I don’t live near, but i can imagine going from beautiful landscape to 1700 homes would be a huge shock. Builder is being too greedy, lets go for 500, that’s a huge uplift from the 37 currently being achieved. The drain and demand on the in place public services will be huge schools, DR etc….what have the builders planned for that, diddley squat that’s what.

[@DavidBennell]

Or an alternative view... 1700 is nowhere near enough for the demand, should be 5,000

[@tonggao08]

​@@DavidBennellwhere though? Where we grow food? Food resilience is an as important, if not more important issue. Perhaps we can slow the flow of people. Not only do we not have housing (apart from the 280,000 empty houses across the country), we don't have all the services either. How can a small rural area cope with a sudden influx when GP surgeries can barely see their own patients, for example?

[@allykhan8594]

let's go for 1 house and call it a done deal!

[@brc9064]

It’s never going to be affordable- it will be the same price and the developers are just messing with the area Why not fix the neighborhood that has abandoned homes and make those affordable I agree not in their backyard

[@Sarah-ft8jr]

We need social only homes and actual affordable homes under £300k only. With all of them available on a part buy part rent scheme.

[@coopsnz1]

a builder cant buid that cheap because the government greedy

[@ayshahawa8005]

Councils should renovate empty properties going into disrepair not take more countryside!

[@kirishima638]

Ban AirB&Bs. Introduce rent controls. Build more housing, including high density tower blocks. Overrule local NIMBY opposition from home owners who were happy to pull up the ladder behind them.

[@tangerinebabe1]

Ban Airbnbs? Like that's ever going to happen 😂

[@coderider3022]

Rent controls damaged market in my area, drove up prices. It sounds good but isn’t in reality. You need to tax landlords, regulate quality and discourage rentals instead

[@mrslondy]

First of all stop sending money to Ukraine and send them back where they belong to ! 😉

[@Michelle-go6cc]

Banning AirB&Bs would be a good start, something should also be done to tackle empty houses.

[@Jacqueline2279]

Just like here in Salem, Oregon. Rent is so incredibly high that there is no way to live alone unless you make $40 plus an hour working over 50 hours a week, or you come from a very well off family and they pay for everyrhing.

[@kirishima638]

The USA is vast. It’s not the same problem.

[@Jacqueline2279]

@@kirishima638 I'm not speaking of the USA as a whole. Watching their story is exactly what is happening in my hometown. Hence why I mentioned a specific city...

[@dianeculverhouse6979]

Thousands of houses built in my area on farming land.still continuing. All for more housing but need a cut off point. Also people need open spaces and houses that are adaptable.

[@stuartfitch7093]

Though I fully acknowledge that there is a nationwide housing shortage, I believe that regional inequality plays into this a lot and it's partly a consequence of not levelling up. Let me explain. In this country there are what I call property hotspots. These are areas close to, or in, or around our major cities where most of the professional, high paying jobs are located that people want to do and where there's affluent neighbourhoods where people desire to bring up a family. This attracts great numbers of people from the outside creating increases in local housing demand. As a consequence of this now you are getting places like Bristol where there's people in work, on good wages as a national average, living at the kerbside in caravans because they can't find anywhere that's affordable to live due to high local housing demand. It's a property hotspot. Now compare this to the northern town where I live. It is in the top third of most deprived towns in England and gets less government funding per capita than almost anywhere else in the country. As a consequence of this public transport is very poor. We've lost 23% of all bus services in recent years, there's no trams or underground, there's only one train station providing limited services to the next town some 25 miles down the track. So basically if you live here, you work here. The trouble with this is local unemployment is high and the jobs there is are minimum wage, manual jobs on production lines. There's no high paid, professional jobs. Because of this nobody from the outside sees my hometown as a good place to come to and make a life and raise a family therefore local property demand is far lower than in other parts of the country. You can easily buy a terraced house for £70k and a three bedroom semi detached house for £100k. The average rent per month across all property types in the town is £600 pcm. There's even houses boarded up that they cant sell or rent for any price! This low demand for property in my hometown because people don't want to move here is probably the reason why plans for a new 6000 new homes estate on farmland on the edge of town has been kicked into the long grass. What's the point in building more houses in a town where they can't sell or rent many of the houses that already exist! As a result of this regional inequality you get some bizarre situations. An example of a bizarre situation is that of my partner's son and his partner were offered better, higher paid jobs so moved away from the town to one of our cities further south. They have better wages now but have a RENT of £1300 pcm where I have a monthly MORTGAGE repayment of £250 and my monthly fixed bills only come to £933. Their whole cost of living is way higher from council tax to a loaf of bread. So I am financially better off and have more disposable income on a wage of £30k per year than two people, living in a city on a combined income of around £80k per year. My belief is that if true levelling up had been carried out as it was promised by government and the good, well paid jobs were spread out more evenly across the whole country, then the people would naturally spread out more instead of trying to all cram into just a few cities and those property hotspots could be relieved. My point is it's not just about building more houses, it's about using the housing we already have in a better way so we don't have cities where there is 30 people bidding for one flat at £2500 per month rent whilst in some towns there's two properties for every person and half of them are boarded up.

[@euannicol5316]

Ban Air BnBs for a start 👍

[@michi_enojon]

😢 I’m 30 and in a similar situation in the US

[@devilo7188]

Because people who invest in British properties own more than one property, as long as heavy taxes are imposed on such people, property sellers will sell properties and the market will increase supply.

[@tractordamage5272]

The nice private landlords are all selling up... Labour have the same 'Narcissist Envy' issues as you...and wish to bring down successful constructive people, to reward unconstructive people...whose characters haven't progressed beyond childish envy. Rent will now be in the hands of corporations...ie the people with zero Empathy for customers, who are already shafting renters. Enjoy the karma of the Hate...and bigoted generalisation of others.

[@tonggao08]

Hang on, why is food security not mentioned? It isn't like these fields are not being used. You could start by filling the hundreds of thousands of empty houses in the country too, and taxing property hoarders who inflate prices too.

[@tonggao08]

Sorry, make that a MILLION empty houses.

[@sinceresong9907]

Nobody want homes built in our countryside

[@andrewdonovan6387]

Just have a look how many homes have actually been built in the Uk in the last 15 years

[@katyakatenka1929]

With the UK housing issue one part of the problem that people still want to live and build houses rather than flats. In the land plot where only few families can live, you can allocate much more. Yes, people won’t have their individual gardens and lifestyle will be very different from the traditional one, but we live in a different world now

[@MrAronymous]

Neighbourhoods with mixed family homes and townhouse style apartment buildings seem to be rare. It's often either or..

[@allykhan8594]

I just don't like waking up to the smells of ganga!

[@mssdn8976]

I think affordable can mean 20% lower rent than private renting, or 20% cheaper to buy. So a 2 bed terraced here that rents for £1,000 a month would then be £800 a month, still very expensive for most people. Buying a £300,000 semi would be £240,000, if my maths hasn’t failed me, it often does 😂

[@coderider3022]

This is a very expensive part of the country - a couple paying higher income tax would struggle here. The woman with baby needs to move location as she is priced out. Labour and or new houses isn’t going to solve her income problem.

[@TheShortStory]

Just how do you imagine that would work? Every store in town would be unmanned because no one on such a salary can afford to live there? people need to be able to live where the work is, _obviously_

[@MrSebastianBlake]

That’s the truth and well said. I had to the same it wasn’t easy then and won’t be easy in the future. But if doesn’t move now then those cheap area will become expensive 😅

[@lyndacrosfill6340]

The houses that have been built in our area are not affordable there far too small for families most were bought by private landlords so again private rent to high for local families.

[@coolrunning387]

Problem is theres millions of people on the right side of the property market who will punish any poltician who solves this ridiculousness. The main parties say they want to do something. They will not say the actual reality, whether you build houses to build or council houses. That is prices need to come down. Because thats what would and should happen. And theres too many people who believe they deserve the profit theyve made from their property from doing absolutely nothing.

[@NotLarryyPlayzRblx]

Guys also apparently there has been a fire in the just built houses in Hounslow high street but there was no one living there and no injuries were caused (i think)

[@janejessy853]

What the f*** is an 'affordable' home in their terms anyway?!....

[@getshrekd_7825]

Just checked on Zoopla, you can get a decent 2 bed in Frome, Somerset for £850

[@hubbletelescope1721]

Did the agent say: no benefits, no kids, guarantor required, no pets?

[@Amieandco]

I live in ex MOD army family housing, we still rent off the MOD through a local estate agency. Many houses are empty, they haven’t put them back up to let. Word on the street is they are planning on housing migrants, lots of them have been filled with furniture, gardens done up, new appliances in the kitchen. These are affordable rentals for families, 3 bedroom and gardens. Children’s parks near by, churches, and bus access to local towns. The army sold the land off to development when the army left to build a new village on the empty land, all makes sense and then they do this… is a newly established village full of families renting and buying 😳

[@chrysalis4126]

Instead of going off rumours why don't you query it with your local council?

[@Amieandco]

Does the council have to give you that information?

[@NS-ms5eg]

I know this in the UK, but Australia is not too different. How did it get this bad?

[@daniel_913]

Too many people on the planet and greed.

[@tarlkoroban3733]

Blackrock is running things now. Shortage of houses means greater rental profit. Everything is going to plan.

[@A.j-q]

More people here than ever before, farm land being sold off and built on. So more people, less food. How's that sustainable??

[@jeremiahpoole6526]

In 2020, the UK imported 46% of the food it consumed. I guess we’ll have to import more, like we do with people.

[@adriandarke5393]

Those that leave, are unfortunately the young generation, they had enough and saw better living elsewhere. If I was young again, why would I stay?.taxes,housing, working to bearly make enough money?..and capitalist government most of the MPs have vested interests.

[@watermelon520b]

@@adriandarke5393i mean it is no better anywhere else really. just more or less of the same.

[@dquan731]

They should start smaller. 1700 units is huge. I’m sure that would scare any neighbors. Start out building 200 units, half of them affordable.

[@lisaf7909]

There should be a massive council house building programme. Not only would it create homes but jobs too. Rent caps need to be introduced as well.

[@bluegoose7832]

- Waiting list for social housing is YEARS. - Private housing takes up half of your wage on rent alone. - House prices are 9x the average salary. A mortgage repayment of 25 years is around £1000 per month for a 2 bed property. - Interest rates are 5%. Interest payments are easily another £700+ per month. We've been set up for failure.

[@davet11]

My search on Right Move shows £700 rent for a 2 bedroom within 5 miles of Somerset. £100k to buy a two bedroom semi detached home. A sales assistant in Waitrose in Somerset makes about £12/hr. £1920/mo. Plus £2160/mo for a labourer. Take home after taxes is about £3500/mo and all four are getting free healthcare. Within a year or two of living rent free they should have saved enough to buy and the mortgage would be about £500/mo. Either they don't know how to do arithmetic or there are too many vacations in Magaluf. Might I suggest the 5.6 weeks mandatory paid vacation could be part of the problem? And shouldn't they have figured out how to look after themselves before they bring two children into the world?

[@Matthew-nc9vm]

Finally some logic

[@Kyphra]

People won't accept it's their poor life choices that leads them to where they are now.

[@Matthew-nc9vm]

@@Kyphra Yep. Always got to be someone else's fault or a label to explain it. While the government has fucked this country, people are to blame for most situations

[@bvanderford]

Doesn’t excuse the place for not letting them build

[@Kyphra]

@@Matthew-nc9vm Oh yeah, I agree. The government has fucked up, things are more expensive however I live just fine because I decide to work FT and not have kids until I finally purchased this house.

[@M12345-i]

Building houses in a housing crisis? Shocking!!

[@2525Hudson]

Or we could simply stop putting petrol on the fire ? By limiting net migration ..... just and outlandish idea of course.

[@georginasawyer6524]

reduce immigration

[@sophie.sienna]

We didn't have a housing crisis before mass immigration.. VOTE REFORM

[@stuntmansynyster]

Reform getting it right yet again

[@pip1723]

Big on promises little on detail that's reform.

[@Phuc_Yhou]

Reform haven't got a clue about housing, they just use it as trigger for you to hate immigrants even more, the same National Front tactics NFarage has always aspired to.

[@starvingbymidnight]

Sad reality!

[@je9417]

The problem the NIMBYs have, at least the reasonable ones, is that developers build cheap, ugly communities lacking practicality and put foreseeable strain on existing infrastructure. Why is beautification so hard? Why is building supportive infrastructure for density impossible? People are rightfully worried that they will lose things about their communities that they cherish. We should be building positively and enhancing our communities, not building reactively and without care.

[@bvanderford]

Builders bring to the market what the consumers demand. Maybe people like it ugly 😅

[@je9417]

@@bvanderford But they don't... people are desperate for housing so the cheapest designs and layouts to mass-produce is what gets made, and the smaller they make them, the more money they can make

[@VoiceSriLanka]

They will never stop no fault evictions because they themselves are private landlords

[@violinstar5948]

Vote Reform 🇬🇧

[@Phuc_Yhou]

Why? There reject Tory w⚓s who don't have a clue about housing issue or anything except triggering your hate for their benefit.

[@StevenTaylorDrums]

Another video with poor/struggling couple who decide to have a baby still.

[@fireat40]

and blaming others for their bad decision

[@AmandaLewis-m9s]

2 babies, madness

[@ThePearlsofGray]

I think for some people they think having a baby is going to lead to other good things. Like a new beginning. Like when people have another baby to save a marriage. Completely irrational, but that's humans for you.

[@neilsmith154]

I am not a nimby. I just want no house building in my backyard. In Scotland they have no fault evictions and rent control and highest rent increases in UK.

[@redmuttly75]

its all very well building new council/social housing but they are not vetting the tenants,there are a lot of new social housing about a mile from where i live.been up a couple of years and you should see the state of them already.rubbish outside the doors and gardens like pig middens.some people dont deserve a home.

[@felicitybloomfield4620]

This problem is all over the world. There in nz also is super hard to own houses when you have an ordernary job. Renting house is so expensive ,weekly payments is high.

[@ox3965]

It will never be affordable homes, thats how the developers trick us. As your self how many houses and flats built in London by these developers are affordable. How much cash did the developers get.

[@carollayne87]

No more matchbox flats. Lets have a mix. If they build bungalows, it will free up some family housing. No more "three" bedroom houses where you cant swing a car in the third. Lets have some minimum building standards.

[@lindaWalters-n1i]

What I cannot stand is - WHY would you have 2 children before you have a place to live 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@splottcardiff3993]

Trouble is everyone has self interests in building or not building social developments. That old chap nearly crapped himself when asked would you prefer if they were all social housing 😂😂

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

Yep but just keep bring those people here. Get real Britain get real we are full up.

[@elizaann1888]

Define affordable and be honest about it.

[@galegrazutis964]

Great point!

[@mmarialexx]

Poor parents, have to put up with two adults who decided to bring children they can’t afford.

[@kyliepechler]

Those grandparents may have been like a lot of others that put non-stop pressure on their children to provide them with grandchildren.

[@debbiefurner1730]

Definitely NIMBYs alright for them in there BIG HOUSE

[@AB-qo2xq]

Maybe if new homes were half decent we’d be more accepting of them. Look at Poundbury, this should be the example not the exception.

[@jeffyou7594]

same thing in us

[@SantaBarbaraBiking]

That old man rejected his own idea

[@allykhan8594]

he's an old man after all!

[@11colobos]

Why do we need more homes built when the UK's had a sub-replacement birth rate since the 1970's?

[@user-gz6tx6yp3v]

This is all the government's fault. You taxed the landlords out of the market, now there is no supply, so the cost has gone up and to add insult to injury, you've raised interest rates 10 fold. The politics of envy and greed took over, and I always said that this will bite everyone in the backside.

[@HaloFlemz86]

I'm paying 1129 for 600sq feet in Canada. I don't even have a bedroom. A whole house for 1200. I'd jump for it.

[@coderider3022]

Uk hasn’t had wage growth so houses cost 3-12x salaries. Parents bought house 30yrs ago, it was 4x avg salary, now it’s 12x avg salary. Achieved a 4% compound growth.

[@jacquelinewilson2279]

Don't want people building on the fields adjacent to their homes - get a life. They're not YOUR fields.

[@seyley2901]

...£1200 to rent, £1300 to rent. So we decided to have a baby instead. Sorry, what am I missing here? I'm empathetic, but why does accountability stop on this sensitive issue?

[@frankdevine7199]

HI, ALL, (. JUST COME INTO THE UK IN A RUBBER BOAT, AND GO TO THE TOP OF THE HOUSING LIST ) REMEMBER THIS GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN IN FOR 14, YEAR'S, ???????????

[@tangaz5819]

And there it is, they have won at deflection your attention to a problem they have created and crafted to make worse because while you are moaning about the boats and hotels (that they are making a killing from with contracts), you have a scapegoat and they have no incentive to process claims because .....what else will they be able to point at? Then they promise to stop the boats, you despise the scapegoats more, they don't eliminate their cash cow and you get madder. Rinse and repeat.

[@elizapopperwell2578]

That opening clip was not a very good idea if one is trying to push building more houses. ie featuring a couple who have had a child and then a 2nd child prior to getting themselves sorted with a house. More to the point would have been a single person or couple without any children or other evidence of bad personal financial planning and saying what their situation is (ie people who help themselves by planning to the best of their ability). Though we also have more and more people piling into our overcrowded country and many of them are coming regardless of whether we want them or no (ie the illegal immigrants) and they then expect housing too.

[@chrysalis4126]

We need to stop rich investors hoovering up all the properties, especially foreign investors. Foreign ownership has increased by 180% over the last decade. Wealthy overseas investors see our housing as a haven for their investments.