didnt you listen to the stats? A shortfall of 4mill homes. You get rid of landlords (small ones) you have less places to rent...House prices wont come down alot as many USA companies are waiting for the drop to buy homes in the 1000s and then jack up the rates. They did this in the USA and planning to do it in the UK.

@@farazvfx these are not landlords for family or single person homes. They are properties that could be repurposed at the stroke of a pen

Us small landlords would likely all start selling up. We’re taxed enough as it is!!! Ours is to give us a pension we rent at no profit! We’ve made a lot of sacrifices to invest for family and our future don’t tar everyone with the same brush!!

@@sarahwhiting325 that's OK, as long as dwellings are used as family homes it will ease the housing shortage

​@@farazvfxyou're either a landlord yourself or suffering from Stockholm syndrome

Very true & this feeds into one aspect of housing I’ve noticed over many years (there are many) is why there is such an obsession about home ownership in this country, compared to Europe & other places? Of course, we’re back to the Tories/Right wing governments again, who love to keep the “plebs” down😢 In the 1990’s I visited a few places in Europe through a Women’s International Friendship organisation. You would connect (by postal letters!) & maybe phone in a particular place, with someone you’d have something in common with. There were various women, many professionals like teachers etc., and renting was often a choice. It didn’t have anything like the bad attitude you find here, the places were good quality, & with long leases. One couple,(both teachers) no children in Antwerp, Belgium had a lovely 3 bedroom, ground floor apartment. That’s one of many examples I found.😮

Would genuinely enjoy this

who are mainly NIMBY's

You should be a guest here.

no wonder all our towns look sh*t... Worst planning in the world...

​@@clivesmith9377I second this, on the condition that he is introduced by his username...

But presumably not for housing though because Blair seemed to build less houses than the Tories

Tower blocks are a no go because of cladding issues. As such they become prohibitively expensive after 5 storeys so can only be marketed to the higher end buyer

@robe1811 1) I said it doesn't have to be high rises 2) the cladding looks expensive at the moment because tower blocks are replacing it rather than installing it, which costs more 3) gentle density is the aim (3-7 stories) which are common in other European countries who are obviously not struggling. 4) We need to build some kind of housing, my point was that there aren't just two options.

@@grapetoad6595 ah I read it as you were promoting tower blocks. I agree that it works in Europe but the issue with the U.K. is that with our notoriously poor building standards flats can end up providing a poor quality of life due to lack of adequate sound proofing. I know from bitter experience on that score so whilst I like the idea of flat life in principle it makes me loath to support it as an answer to the current crisis.

Interesting!

they were rich from all the slavery and industry - which is now in China... We are not a global power anymore and given our small population never will...

new council houses will be given to asylum seekers etc. it wont actually help working families at all

This issue could also be credibly linked to a lack of productive investments in the country. Since the introduction of neoliberalism in the 1980’s, governments have been cutting spending and trying to “balance the budget”. This means that they have been pulling money out of the economy… money that would have been spent in the economy, generating economic velocity and growth. Instead, the lack of investment has meant a lack of innovation and development, which means your industries are less profitable. What remains profitable though is housing, because people need somewhere to live. People can choose not to buy a new pair of shoes or a new phone. Most people don’t choose to live on the streets, they are forced to. Add to that the low interest loans available to these firms, which makes real estate even more profitable. Therefore, when the return on investment in the rental market is higher than the returns on industry, these big profit seeking firms will shift into real estate. It just makes financial sense to do so.

Not really, relatively minor low impact in the UK. Big in American but not here. Petty bourgeois buy to let landlords are the scourge of the private rental market in the UK.

As with so many things, public transport should be a public service, not a private profit opportunity. It's insane how we keep getting sold the idea that getting a private company to run things, whilst creaming off a profit, will be cheaper than just paying for it thru taxation, and prioritising the quality and affordability for the people is a silly idea.

Hang on, but you need to buy a car, tax/insure it, pay for fuel and park it. Did you factor these considerations in?

Ultravox.

Done the same to us . Life changing. Passed by Secretary of State after appeal. Ruining some peoples lives for the benefit of others.

I do agree generally, even though I found Tokyo really cheap. I think the difference was I lived in a sharehouse 1hr away from Shinjuku. I could've paid double what I was paying if I wanted to be closer, but it wasn't where my job was. If you don't mind living in the centre its cheap, but thats true anywhere, difference is Tokyo's suburbs are massive

@@CustardCream515 oh we were in Chiba and accommodation was cheap there for sure and so was the train into Tokyo, £136 for the month to commute in 45mins! I think the UK is nearly £500!

@@andy_ppp I lived in Akishima near Yokota airbase and worked at an eikaiwa in Hachioji, so my commute was from one suburb to another :') I'd meet friends in tokyo proper and they've have no idea where I lived

didnt you watch the video and listen to the stats? A shortfall of 4million. Are you saying we have enough houses???

Don't all councils have online planning portals where you can search by address/planning number?

@@JAYG6390 yes, true but who regularly searches their neighbourhood just incase. I guess local residents should get a letter and be invited to a meeting but these can be hard to attend for busy people or those with mobility/transport issues. The online portals do have documents but no 3D models / videos / renders and it can be hard for lay people to appreciate a development from just a few technical documents and plans. The online planning portals are a good start but I think the developers should have to provide links to renders / models of the proposed developments and councils should provide zoom access to meetings. My elderly parents recently successfully objected to a local development's use of materials but we're only able to do so because their son in law was an architect and was able to understand the technical documents. Most people wouldn't really know what was being built until after it had gone up. Some elderly people like them would also struggle to attend meetings. I think better engagement might encourage developers to be more considerate and locals to be more accepting. At the moment the planning process seems like just a hurdle to be overcome rather than a proper consultation process. Better consultation might quell nimby fears. People fear what they don't understand and reflexively object to it. My parents objection wasn't to the development, just to the materials that they felt was not in keeping with the neighbourhood. I think local residents could be turned from suspicious opposition to support if included more, and technology can help.

Was your house built pre-1066? Didn't think so.

it takes you a whole week to get to work and back?

@@EggBastion I walk 3 miles there, and 3 miles back. Rain wind or shine.

Not in a pretty area, I'll bet.

​@@phil2544....its a beautiful house for a first time buyer. There within lies the problem, it takes time and sacrifice to earn something beautiful and you guys are to lazy to take the first steps in that direction.

Is this a joke?

2023: The average price for a property in Cornwall is £352,595. Where are you finding yours ?

but if they din't mumble or mutter the punchlines inaudibly to each other then the whole jig would be up wouldn't it

God you’re miserable 😖

Only 1.1% of England is domestic housing and iirc only 3-4% of the country is built on. The U.K. is soon going to have a top heavy demographic of geriatrics and will need all the help it can get to pay the heavy costs that will be associated with that and the least the country can offer in return for the people who will be footing the bill is secure snd accessible housing

@@robe1811 IN THE LAST CENTURY POPULATION QARDRIPELT !! IT´S NOT JUST THE SPACE ; MORE HOUSES NEED MORE STREETS ; MORE TRAFFIC; MORE EMISSION; ALL THE PROBLEMS MANKIND IS FACING NOW : CLIMATE CRISIS; EM;- IMMIGRATION; NOT ENOUGH ENERGIE ; LABOUR etc, etc ... IS DUE TO THIS ONE PROBLEM : OVERPOPULATION !!

@@mountbatten2222 And how have you contributed to the problem? How many kids have you got? How many grand kids, etc? If you want depopulation then you should lead by example and start in your own home….

@@robe1811 THAT´S EXACTLY WHAT WE DID ! SO FAR WE HAVE NO KID; MABY WE WILL HAVE ONE . WITH ONLY ONE KID PER COUPLE POPULATION WILL DECLINE 50% WITHIN ONE GENERATION. SOCIETY HAS TO START CONSIDERING OUR SITUATION . THE FACTS ARE KNOWN FOR DECADES AND VERY WELL PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC FOR EXAMPLE BY SIR DAVID ATHENB. THEY JUST DON´T WANT TO HEAR IT . CHINA WOULD HAVE ABOUT 400 MIL. PEOPLE MORE WITHOUT THEIR ONE-CHILD POLICY ; WHAT WOULD BE A BIG PROBLEM FOR THEM NOW...

You're reporting yourself a bit here mate

@@RedSntDK Typical response. You're reporting yourself too, ironically.

@@RedSntDK no valid ideas but the ones we prescribe you'll go far in Kier's Britian

@@DavidSmith-oy4of - I don't know mate. Maybe Monkey Dust and Brass Eye are still a bit of a 'big deal' for these little un's. Maybe everything's a bit more Nathan Barley now than I'd care to accept.

Immigration is alot higher in other countries that don't have this problem so your argument doesn't really add up.

An excuse. We asked for immigrants to come and work yet failed (and now fail abysmally) to provide the infrastructure.

@@davidmcculloch8490 It's not an excuse, it's the reality. A problem of our own making.

​@@KillaKermitMy argument adds up just fine. Those countries built houses for their immigration populations. We didn't for 20 years. Therefore the problem here is so great we now cannot physically keep up with incoming demand plus the extra required to deal with the problem we've created for ourselves in a timely manner.

Ah yes, the typical 'there's a problem in the UK so lets blame the immigrants' argument. There are schemes like buy to let which encourages wealthy people to stockpile housing and rent it to those who need them, imagine if there was a one house per family limit, or a scheme where all housing is social and can only be bought back by the state? Imagine if boomers didn't have their wealth only tied to their houses, thus being a deluded NIMBY and ruining the housing market for young people. There are plenty of ways to fix housing, blaming it on immigration is cheap and naive.

The chap that services my car has my built a car or run a production plant…should I not listen to him when giving advice on how the car can be improved?