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Vic said:
I'm not sure people (other than Thatcherites) thought municipal housing was a bad idea. She even persuaded people that it was a good idea to sell them cheap to tenants to boost the "home-owning democracy", without realising that the people who bought them would go on to sell them to private landlords, who are now turning them into HMOs. It was essentially theft from the councils who'd built the houses (and thus from taxpayers).

That, and abolishing the rates, making millions for wealthy landowners, mean she's responsible for much of our current housing crisis. Plus killing off state-run training for the construction industry.
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It was the banning of councils from building replacement social housing that was the bad idea.


But as ever with Conservatives ..... its the cruelty that counts ... and throwing the less fortunate into the hands of unscrupulous landlords was definitely cruel.
 
hilts said:
To a certain degree i agree but if you turn a hamlet into village or a village into a town it may no longer be such a nice place. Im not sure the countries housing stock problem will be solved by property developers earning a wad from building on Wilmcote.

Anyhow less people less concrete more countryside.
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It’s symptomatic of the problem, though. Nobody wants the solution being addressed if it impacts on them.
 
Tories planning to revoke ILR now. Id love to know the legalities involved. But I suspect it's something they have no real intention to do. Just pandering to the gammons and pretending they're tough on immigration.
 
Ifwecouldjust....... said:
As of 2024, there are approximately 265,061 long-term empty homes in the UK. Additionally, there are over 998,000 empty homes in England alone, a figure that has been steadily rising over the last five years.

Empty Homes Data — Action on Empty Homes

www.actiononemptyhomes.org www.actiononemptyhomes.org

This does not take into account the number of empty commercial properties that could be converted.
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That would be a start. But as has been shown in a few programmes and news sections recently, some of the homes that are empty you wouldn’t house farm animals in never mind a family with young children. Some of the occupied housing is very poor n’all.

‘Poor housing conditions persist in the private rented sector. The most recent English Housing Survey data shows that 23% of private rented sector properties fail to meet the Decent Homes Standard and 13% have category 1 hazards. Poor conditions are reflected in the results of the Phase 1 survey. On average, local authorities reported that 17% of private rented properties in their area had category 1 hazards, with a significant minority (28%) reporting 20% or more properties with category 1 hazards’.

www.gov.uk

Local authority enforcement in the private rented sector: headline report

www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
(A few years old now but shows the scale of the problem)

And councils would rather private landlords bought and rented out homes (with expensive rents and poor living conditions) rather than the Councils buy them and get them into living standards for social housing use.
 
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Kemi took them to 2% in Caerphilly yesterday - as of next month she will have been in post for 1 year and under the Party constitution she can be challenged. I bet Jenrick is licking his lips today.
 
So - after going all in on China and blaming Starmer it seems the smoking gun actually has Sunak's prints on it - you'd have thought someone from her own side would have flagged this up to her to save her the time and the embarrassment

 
.db. said:
That would be a start. But as has been shown in a few programmes and news sections recently, some of the homes that are empty you wouldn’t house farm animals in never mind a family with young children. Some of the occupied housing is very poor n’all.

‘Poor housing conditions persist in the private rented sector. The most recent English Housing Survey data shows that 23% of private rented sector properties fail to meet the Decent Homes Standard and 13% have category 1 hazards. Poor conditions are reflected in the results of the Phase 1 survey. On average, local authorities reported that 17% of private rented properties in their area had category 1 hazards, with a significant minority (28%) reporting 20% or more properties with category 1 hazards’.

www.gov.uk

Local authority enforcement in the private rented sector: headline report

www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
(A few years old now but shows the scale of the problem)

And councils would rather private landlords bought and rented out homes (with expensive rents and poor living conditions) rather than the Councils buy them and get them into living standards for social housing use.
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No idea where that last sentence comes from. What interest would councils have in higher rents for residents, let alone poor living conditions?
 
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hampshireblue said:
He certainly did. It won't be long till he's defecated to the ReRacists.
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he needs to be quick - they only like sitting MP's in reality and with a majority of 13,300 down to 2,300 at the last GE he may not be eligible to make the move after the next one
 
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