From PA Media:
Former prime minister Theresa May has warned that the housing system is “broken” and “letting down” the next generation.
The backbench Tory MP said the problem can be traced back to a lack of action from “governments of all colours”, with the crisis beginning “not because of a blip lasting a year or a parliament, but because not enough homes were built over many decades”.
Speaking at a conference on social housing hosted by the charity Shelter, Ms May said for “too long” the Tories have been seen by many as “the party only of home ownership... Indeed, dare I say it, our policies have too often made it seem that way,” she said. But she argued the Conservatives are in fact “the party of decent homes for all”...[That's obviously a lie but neither were Labour when it power, so gloss over it]
Ms May called for processes to be put in place “support the building of more social housing... We know our housing system is broken, but the housing crisis in this country began not because of a blip lasting a year or a parliament, but because not enough homes were built over many decades. Under governments of all colours we simply haven’t given enough attention to social and affordable housing. It is undeniable that the housing system is letting down the next generation. Fixing the housing crisis will let so many more people get on in life.”
"In line with our commitment to deliver 300,000 homes per year by the mid-2020s, we need to put in place processes to support the building of more social housing... It’s still too hard to build social homes and too easy to be an irresponsible landlord. We need to harness the momentum that I think we now have and use the levelling up agenda as an opportunity to spur further change.
“I think, and I say to the Government, next month’s Queen’s Speech does give an opportunity to bring forward the measures that require primary legislation, including those reforming regulation for private rental and social tenants, that will tip the scales in favour of fairness.”
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12 comments:
Miss,miss, miss.
Yes Georgd. What is it?
Please miss, what is a social tenant, miss?
Just a punt for the housebuilders. There is no housing shortage. There is an infinite demand for space that no finite amount of housebuilding can ever satisfy.
Thre is a shortage of affordable housing, not helped by the way the term 'affordable' is defined in relation to local income levels. Houses are overpriced because of (a) credit and (b) massive income/wealth inequality.
Perhaps stop importing thousands of people that need housing...?
"There is no housing shortage. There is an infinite demand for space that no finite amount of housebuilding can ever satisfy."
Not at all, there is no housing shortage full stop. The only shortage is of cheap houses in expensive places. There isn't even a shortage of affordable houses. "Affordable" is another of those words that doesn't actually mean much. If a house is occupied, it is affordable, in that someone can afford to live there. It's only unaffordable when it's empty. Nor is there an "infinite demand for space", it's just that everyone wants to be in the bubble that is land ownership.
"Perhaps stop importing thousands of people that need housing...?"
Who's going to be paying taxes to pay your pensions, then?
No mention of the real villains of the piece then (and her mates) the broken system of banking money and credit?
P, There is no getting round the fact that the native British weren't having enough babies 18 years ago, so the choice is either a labour shortage and a reduced tax take plus everything costing more, or importing our labour via immigration.To answer your question, statistics show that immigrants are less likely to be unemployed than the native British.
D, well, a long time ago...
S, yes.
Barman and PS, please stop dissing immigrants. My mum was an immigrant, my wife is an immigrant, I was an immigrant when I lived abroad. All law abiding decent people. The NHS and UK farming relies (or relied) on them. Our dying garment industry relied on them post WW2. A large number of people BUILDING the homes are immigrants, and more homes were built over the last twenty years than all new immigrants could possibly occupy.
(The Islamist-rapist-sponging-terrorists are a small minority, and sure, we should never have let them in, but they are a special case. Don't tar them all with the same brush, if you're still allowed to say that, snigger.)
B, agreed, both comments.
L, no, she is not that bright or radical. But she's vaguely heading in the right direction.
MW,
I have no problem with immigrants per se, only those who are parasites and bring nothing with them.
My grandfather was an immigrant. He came to this country, lawfully, with nothing, and worked his socks off, sometimes taking on 3 jobs at a time. He gave my father, my brother, and me that work ethic which we followed throughout our working lives. My criticism was about the young males arriving in this country, unlawfully, and with the implied assistance of various sections of the government, and then receiving perks which my grandfather would never have imagined in his wildest dreams. I would like to see some statistics of the percentage of these arrivals taking up meaningful employment within a reasonable period of time, compared with those numbers still in receipt of benefits. Meanwhile, these invaders seem to be quite happy escaping from their sharia shitholes, while leaving their wives and families behind. I stand by my comments.
My Grandfather was also an immigrant.
But times have changed.
Anybody that believes the recent wave of mass immigration to the UK is of people that will financially contribute to the economy or pay for my pension are seriously deluded.
"Who's going to be paying taxes to pay your pensions, then?"
And who will be paying theirs? And their healthcare, education, etc.?
More immigrants? You've defined a Ponzi Scheme that would eventually make the country unrecognisable.
"Anybody that believes the recent wave of mass immigration to the UK is of people that will financially contribute to the economy or pay for my pension are seriously deluded."
And why shouldn't they contribute? Thanks to Brexit, Britain has a labour shortage in just those low-paid jobs traaditionally done by immigrants. Possibly not in Dailymailworld, but anyone who believes anything written about immigrants in the Daily Mailexpressgraph is seriously deluded. Newspapers have no incentive to tell the truth, their incentive is to print what people want to read. Their business model is based on that and printing what they are paid to print.
Nowhere does actually spreading information come into it.
Also, the fact that restricting immigration through leaving the EU has, mirabile dictu, resulted in labour shortages in those jobs done by immigrants, and those jobs are not now being done by the hitherto unemployed native British, shows that it's the native British who are the lazy dole bludgers, not the immigrants.
Or perhaps the mass importation of unskilled labour supresses wages and kills innovation...?
"More immigrants? You've defined a Ponzi Scheme that would eventually make the country unrecognisable."
Well yes, that's what happens if the natives decline to breed. Given that the time to do something about the British not having enough children was eighteen years ago, what would your solution be to the labour shortage we see today and the ageing population profile?
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