The Oxfordshire Housing Crisis Documentary

[@mathieumaticien]

Dang I didn't know this was such a worldwide issue. I'm American and my parents do have a home (where I partly grew up), but it's only barely affordable for them so I'm iffy about ever taking on a mortgage. Seems like the world is reverting back to the old system of lords and ladies, yikes.

[@ishabrown]

They need to build more affordable housing for lower income people

[@jordangann7438]

Grebe close or Draymans walk Abingdon. Affordable housing there but that's because they're council.

[@irenestratton8326]

A conversation between the chap who thought that building should be inside the city on brownfield sites and Bob Price and the LEP guy would have been more interesting than the interviews. The LEP is a quango - heaven alone knows how they got so much power over all our futures.

[@hepburn118]

I was born and raised in Auckland New Zealand and I still have family there and I can confirm what was said, it's rediculous what has happened and the govermental controls are way to little and way too late. My wife and I are home owners in South Australia and we cant actually sell up and go home to Auckland to buy and live again even if we want to. You are going to cop this problem UK wide as it spreading Australia wide now, so it's become a world issue. One of the biggest problems is peoples pay not keeping up with inflation.

[@bluepeter3470]

Just simple go and live in the North. Nicer people as well.

[@mks8172]

Tributary cities are the best solution when geography and infrastructure are strained eg eastkilbride beside glasgow.

[@VirginiaCottrell]

Same problem in Australia, ridiculously high property prices, high rents. The government does nothing to help, just provides tax benefits for investment properties and limited policing on foreign investment

[@paulrichardson5337]

Government do nothing to help lol but it's the Government printing money that caused the bubbles.. So Government should help by more QE ????

[@donnablackman3954]

All the councils are doing is moving the problems on it doesnt address the issues ♥️

[@brd8764]

Enslow is a hamlet on the banks of both the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal in Bletchingdon civil parish, Oxfordshire. The medieval main road linking London with Chipping Norton and Worcester crosses the Cherwell at Enslow.

[@frakfeem]

Great video

[@robinscotcher]

Thanks! Great work on your music, love it :)

[@Michael-pf8we]

At least someone in your country cares. I don’t expect to own a house in my lifetime. The American Dream has long been dead.

[@BlanceDevereaux]

If you are not living in a major city, American homes are far more affordable than the UK.

[@fredgalaxy7632]

Depends on the state, LA, Cali, NY, New Jersey...... housing prices rocketing according to recent documentaries I've watched. Places like Birmingham, Bradford, Wales, East Sussex, Bristol have cheap rent costs. It's just not attractive, convenience, well-connected, limited and expensive public commuting options. Lack of career prospects and instability!

[@kurosua]

Charlie Fisher community housing lead is providing real solutions and ideas. Listen to that guy at @10:53

[@paulbroderick8438]

Perhaps 100% 'freehold' ought to be amended to that of leasing the land a house is built on to help matters. I wonder!

[@kristinesharp6286]

Home sharing is this USSR 3 families sharing a 2 bed flat?

[@kristinesharp6286]

The shared ownerships scheme have fees making it more costly than private rent.

[@AG86UK]

It's the product of one generation's greed: they sat back and made a fortune as the property values rose - knowing full well that they were pricing the next generation out of the market.

[@michaelplank8966]

They dont care about the youth they could have stoped the invations anytime but didn't as you see its all about money now your stuck with tomany poor people that cant find good paying jobs to get houses where are they going to live ask boris but you see boris is WHEATHY so it doesn't effect him all this is so simple so predictable i knew it was coming so did all of you now what

[@iandennis7836]

Yes...and no. When I bought, it was just prior to the collapse of the housing market in 1989. My colleagues and I (NHS) were scrabbling to find a place we could call home at a rate we could afford. In that sense, we WERE the next generation and it was a straightforward case of sacrifice EVERYTHING, and I mean everything. The closest I could get to the hospital I felt most able to work at was 4 miles as the crow flies, 3.1 miles by car.....or a 75 minute, 2 bus journey starting out at 6.30 am to be on duty at 8 am. Remember this is SW London where publi transport was supposedly plentiful and affordable....yeah right. So I had to have a car. So I bought an MoT failure for £100 and spent 20 hours and £200 to get it through an MoT, and yes, I am WELL aware that I was skilled enough to be able to do that. It lasted me 3 years before it literally fell apart going over a speed bump. The only thing we bought new was a bed and that was only 'cos my partner's parents bought us the mattress.....everything else was second ( or third or forth or fifth) hand. The mortgage at 12%...... well we went without a lot of stuff that today seems ABSOLUTELY essential. Coulda done with a mobile phone as I was on call more than not, tv and.....blah blah blah, you get the idea. Just to reiterate, we WERE the "next generation " and nobody, NOBODY made it easy for us. Don't call me a f**king 'boomer (age wise I am but that's ALL) and blame it on me, 'cos if you could be bothered to look up pay rates for an anaesthetic technician at that time you'ld shut up fast. Oh and don't mention the gold plated pension either 'cos I had to work for an agency to afford the mortgage, so no pension fund for ME until I had to take a staff job in 2003 with a 48% cut in take home pay. So you see, just screaming "rich boomer" to everyone who has a house just......well it just doesn't cut the mustard. The generation behind me did better.....well until they started remortgaging and equity release to buy new cars and expensive foreign holidays, they are now up 5h1t creek but their choice, we paid the bills and in case I hadn't mentioned it, went WITHOUT. Now we own our house and drive a 15 year old car and a 20 year old car as we STILL can't afford a new one......or for that matter, a 5 year old one either.....but we do own our home. So I'll drive an old banger, use a 6 year old phone and not go to the Maldives for a 10 day spring break, or a long weekend in Prague ( you get the idea now, yes?).

[@marilynalexander5446]

@@iandennis7836 well said, couldn't have put that any better

[@hepburn118]

@@iandennis7836 That's fine Dennis, you went without and did well, hat's off to your effort. The point is, even if millenials did all those things, they still dont have a prayer of scraping up a deposit on a London home, let alone pay the mortgage. My wife and I did the same things you did relatively recently to buy a home here in South Australia (at the same age funnily enough) and had to move states from Melbourne to buy a house remotely where we wanted to be in a city we liked. However, in just 5 years, I've watched my affordable suburb go from Affordable to just about impossible for young one to save for and buy. The point is, you could still buy, the generations coming up now don't have a chance unless they buy in the middle of nowhere. Even then I don't like a lot of the workforces chance unless they happen to make a fortune in a useless, but well paid, task like stockbroking. Even now, I'm watching the first home buyers being pushed further and further down the peninsula to afford a home, and further and further away from work locations. I'm guessing you and your partner worked to get your home (like I said, respect and my wife and I did the same) but in other locations (quite a few) around England, peopIe of your age could buy a home and raise a family on one wage. The generation before you certainly could, I realise a lot of less of you could do that than the generation before you, but a lot still could. Well, the kids coming up now are looking at that in the rear view mirror for sure. I understand that you dont like being called 'boomer' (you technically aren't a boomer, that was your parents) and getting sneered at by the youth of today for your privillage, even though you didn't really have privillage and just worked hard, but you must understand that compared to the young now, you did have a privillaged chance in housing, the young are basically sunk. Well, the not wealthy or highly skilled/ educated (and lets be real, not everyone can be one of that group) are anyway. The factory workers, who could buy house in bygone era's, can forget property ownership pretty much anywhere. I had to lay under a lot of trains (fixing them, not suicide) and my poor wife did a lot of designing to get our home, I fear the next generation wont even get a sniff of home ownership though, no matter how hard they try. Anyway, just felt the need to try and see things from another point of view than yours.

[@iandennis7836]

Shaun, I'm not arguing with your central tenent here, you're absolutely right. I am a boomer by the way, born in '59. What I was saying is just because I'm a boomer DOESN'T mean I had it easy.....I didn't and neither are the millennials. But when they tar us all with the same brush, "oh you had it easy, free uni (no), walk into well paid jobs (I did say I've worked in the nhs pretty much all my life), you got mortgages easy (really!?)" etc, I feel it's only fair to correct their misunderstanding and set them straight......believe me, I hate some of my peer group, a more selfish and entitled bunch of pricks I've yet to come across outside of the Cabinet.

[@patrickmorrison6253]

what i did is found where there are job and housing and it work with me back in 1983

[@DerekFolan]

I think we should rethink housing to raise wealth of society for improved quality of life. If house prices were lower or even made close to free is there a way to profit from this ? House property tax, house insurance, debt free society and economy, increased sales for shops due to increased money in economy for spending, heating, electricity, bins, water, House buyers/renters would have to buy or pay for building materials via smaller government loan and government pay for builders and land, maybe using more effecient building methods like larger 3d printed house parts and faster streamlined assembly process. Increased house prices for bigger houses would be linked to self designed houses via architects so private building trade still needed. If everyone could have a basic 3 bedroom starter house or flat at age 21 to return upon death or upon moving out to government if upgrading home to private property. Richer people should still have private housing assets, the main change is to look after people starting life to give people a better start, even if people want to move around they should have this base home provided by government at an affordable price. Rental homes should be a bit more expensive but also be luxury homes, places that people would want to pay more for like with good locations. These assets can be private assets that are rented as a side business.

[@tajmahal5572]

Don't like the wind dilute could have been used disappear

[@vyom.2787]

Yes, I have solution where I have designed a model which provides housing on true affordable price subject to if I get an opportunity to present the model. I am real estate professional from India and interested for such execution.

[@rafaelgonzalezrobles7380]

Indians have an interesting accent

[@rjmunro]

Present the model in a KZbin video. You can record it with a phone or a webcam. You don't need any more opportunity than that.

[@jacquelineithell307]

REALLY IT SHOULD BE GIVEN TITLE HOUSING CRISIS GREAT BRITAIN JACKIE

[@SP-lw7mr]

Who do you think gets the social housing once built? Build as many as you want, the benefits to Brit key workers would be minimal as the allocation would be pathetic. All those waiting in temporary accommodation (B&B’s and Hotels) with families would be prioritised. The naivety that a developer should bear the cost of social housing is a joke. Maybe the authorities should build their own properties rather than forcing developers to supply them for free.

[@kristinesharp6286]

30 year fixed interest rate.

[@kristinesharp6286]

The local area decides permits. You have permission to build 300 homes at 250,000. You can build 300 at 500,000. It’s easy.

[@horseo5111]

Oxfordshire is at capacity we can’t just keep developing land or we’ll have no farms left it may be inconvenient but that’s how it is

[@kristinesharp6286]

£385;000 for a 2 bed detached house in that fancy development for Oxford people.

[@stuartfitch7093]

Great idea...not. with having one mass mortgage between a group of you for a block of flats. What happens when one person defaults and you all either have to pay it for them or get a bad credit rating because of one idiot. None of these fancy ideas addresses the two main factors. Supply and demand. Land prices will always go up because as we use more land, there's less left over so the price rises. We live on a tiny island that's not getting any bigger but demand is growing because of an increasing population. You would think people could learn simple maths.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

SHAME ON LAND SHARKS

[@sallyclay1974]

In the global world , the housing crisis, is all over the universe. It's going to get worse, as technology replaces jobs.

[@BasedinReality1984]

Come on now.....If you're in the market for a home, its safe to assume you have a car; a 30 minute drive is nothing nowadays.

[@yannie0101]

WE CANNOT AFFORD HOMES 30 MINS AWAY EITHER!!!!!!

[@cashkitty3472]

Oxford is a nice place to live so either you get skills to get enough cash to live there or you move out to cheaper areas. That's how it is everywhere. Try living down south! With Remote working people will have better choices of where to work

[@tomhermens7698]

Cash kitty. That's not how it is. House prices are being driven up by bankers and the government. There is plenty of land available to build even though the colleges and church own most of it. Compulsory purchase by the government should free plenty of land. In Botley new houses were sold for 500 £ after the war. Now God knows.

[@joline2730]

Call me a prude but I turned off when they decided to interview a man standing next to a statue with goolies hanging . . . what was that about ?? Couldn't find anything else, like a teapot perhaps ‼️

[@noneone.............]

Be optimistic ! ^_^🇬🇧♥️

[@kurosua]

Paul Roberts CEO of Aspire is implying some strong xenophobia. If you want to limit foreign investment, that’s fine. But to use language like “who the city is for” is awful.

[@raoulmontefiore4803]

It's only investment in the sense of buying assets to accrue rent and relying on the ever increasing inflation of that asset which in turn is partly a consequence of lack of any intervention other than that which leverages more out of the pockets of local residents, whether renters or mortgage holders. It's not a constructive form of investment. We don't owe global capital a living.

[@iandennis7836]

Upvote Raoul Montefiore one million times.....nail on head buddy though you'll get castigated here for saying so by the w**e s**wf****s gathering around like an accreting supersaturated solution. We DON'T owe capitalism, domestic OR foreign one damn thing. As for luminous compadre, sorry but when you've got that level of a housing problem, "who is the city for" IS a legitimate question and the sooner you realise and accept that no, capitalism does NOT have a god given right to screw any and everyone simply to obtain an outrageous return for themselves and their buddies, the more likely it is that something will be done about it. They (capitalists) don't now and never have accepted that there is a minimum level of socially financial responsibility, in other words if you don't want to end up on the wrong end of a pitchfork when it goes pear shaped, you have to contribute to the welfare of all in society. It's a f**king basic insurance policy at its' simplest level, call it bread and circuses if you like. Feed and house the less fortunate than yourself (from your bloated tax evading fortune that you couldn't spend if you TRIED) and they probably won't turn up at your gated mansion with a can of petrol and a flaming torch. It's common sense. It's why Brexit happened, we simply couldn't allow the EU to make tax laws that would affect Reet Smug, John DImwwod, Ian Dunkedin-Shit et al. It simply couldn't be allowed to happen, old boy. As you were....

[@martharoberts5767]

No he is honest it should be British homes for British people end off

[@kristinesharp6286]

He simply wants the people who owns the homes to live in them.

[@enlargedtesticles]

Why do people have children when they clearly cannot afford to support them? Then, 20 years later, the parents complain that their children can't afford to buy a house.

[@frakfeem]

Yeah, because that's how it works.

[@fthunte1982]

You seem to forget even middle class parents are struggling to support their kids get on the housing ladder. And that generation we call the Baby Boomers did not expect that such changes would happen in future, as they took their wealth of opportunities for granted. And thanks to an unregulated financial and housing market, including Globalization, Overseas investors speculating on the UK market, add with UK property landlords, values are rocketing up out of control. Nothing to do with bring children into the world without financial stability.

[@GeraldRFord-ib3kz]

Meef Chaloin That’s exactly how it works. Don’t be a fool, cover your tool.

[@cashkitty3472]

Exactly

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

Singapore is a global trading hub despite having near total control over housing. So we can dispel the myth of stagnation and economic collapse. Why not the UK? Create 100% of homes needed based on population growth ( divided by 2 assuming families are optimal). Then charge no more than 30% of income for said house/condo. The property tax can be the incentive to work, but should be capped at £500 per year. This would be for 3 bed-2 bath homes/condos (flats that you buy outright). After 25 years, the home/condo is yours. There is an NHS - national health service, why isnt there an NHS - national housing service? Both are human rights. If people want more than 3 bed-2 bath, they can pay the additional costs (the govt housing agency and builder association would negotiate the average price of the 3 bed-2 bath). For example, the housing agency and the builder association agree on £100,000 being the average value of a 3 bed-2 bath home. Peter wants to buy a 6 bed-5 bath home. The total build price for that home is £789,000. Subtract the base cost of the standard 3 bed-2 bath of £100,000, and Peter would pay £689,000. Since he is getting above and beyond, his income does not factor in. Another example: James and his family make only £15,000. He decides to buy the single family detached home in the outskirts of town rather than the 6th-7th floor condo in downtown (both same costs). James pays £4,500 annually based on 30% of his income. After 25 years, the home will be his with no further payments. Any thoughts?

[@naieemrahim6257]

I don't know what you're smoking but this housing crisis is going to come crashing down like a house of cards. Maybe world economy and QE's have passed you by. When the Dollar goes bang, everything else in the world, especially UK and Europe will go with it.

[@michaelplank8966]

And he we go with normall population real english without these invations you would not be destroying the buetifull english country side there will never be enough houses and you all know it my question is why has this helped you how are your roads and hospitals going to work they wont your all sieze up no where to escape in the end

[@l27tester]

if you cant afford to live there, move elsewhere

[@user-fx8ye7nd7i]

Stop building on protected fields!!!

[@izdatsumcp]

What's the point of protecting them?

[@user-fx8ye7nd7i]

@@izdatsumcp Those fields have been perfectly preserved for us for the last few thousand years, we feel entitled to concrete over it without understanding that we fully have no right as the land doesn't belong to the community, as the land is protected and we have a whole north of the country with empty houses going for £1 each, we don't have a housing crisis we have fussy people that want to live in a very specific location but it's one of the only locations that we haven't already desecrated with tarmac

[@izdatsumcp]

@@user-fx8ye7nd7i It's not fussy to want to live in a specific location. People move where there is work and amenities. This is natural. They want the best life for themselves. You sound like a Soviet commissar that wants people where it looks nice to you and not where they themselves choose to be. The fields have been cultivated by us over thousands of years, it's not like they are in a pristine condition. Not mention, we cut down lots and lots of forestland for our benefit. As for the greenbelts being the only places we haven't desecrated with farmland, this is flat out wrong. Urban areas take up a small amount of area in the country. Building in e.g. London means houses built at a higher density, so less green land net will be destroyed. Not to mention that the greenbelts aren't about saving green land, they're an urban growth boundary.

[@user-fx8ye7nd7i]

@@izdatsumcp But it's not even like quality houses are being built on them to last more than 50 years, you want affordable housing but it doesn't come from newbuilds, instead of tarmacking over what we have maintained for thousands of years we should look to create new industrys and employment in the north of our country Instead of abandoning the north and flocking to the south like flys to shit, this is your inner city gen Zness showing, everybody wants a new build and conveniently forgets about the animals that roam these fields and the fact that it matters to much for you crony leftists to destroy, you won't stop the people from protecting their countryside, didn't you see it's all been put on hold, you can't stop the people from protecting their land and fields, fuck off to Germany they'll love your ideas

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

Should the fields be where homeless set up their tents to rise up against the govt and business then?