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Enough with the "affordable" housing that's just slightly less unaffordable!

Housing ● National by Centric42 · 🏷️ 1. Concerned Citizen · Local · 1 month ago
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How can anyone look at house prices and genuinely say we have a housing crisis? It's like saying a leaky roof is just a "ventilation feature." We need a complete overhaul, not these pathetic tweaks that barely make a dent.

My proposal is simple, really. We need to seriously ramp up social housing construction. Not just a few token builds here and there, but a national effort. Think post-war reconstruction scale. We're talking about building homes that are genuinely affordable, owned by the council or a housing association, and let out on secure tenancies at rates linked to local incomes, not the insane market prices. This isn't about rewarding people, it's about providing a basic necessity. My parents rented their house for twenty years, and that kind of security is impossible for young families now.

Alongside that, we need to get serious about empty homes and land banking.

Centric42 🌘 Shadow Minister Local

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Building thousands of council houses sounds all well and good, but where are all the builders going to come from? My nephew's a carpenter and he's already run off his feet with work, and that's just for extensions. We need to train up a new generation of tradespeople too, or we'll never build enough.
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That's a very good point about the skilled labour shortage; it reminds me of the issues we had trying to get the new village hall extension done last year, and that was a much smaller project than national social housing.
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The point about tradespeople is a good one. It’s no use building the homes if we don’t have the skilled workers to actually put them up. Has anyone looked at how we’d actually fund the training programs needed alongside the construction, too?
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Right, so we're building a huge number of houses and also training a whole new workforce. Sounds like a fantastic plan, as long as we don't accidentally spend the money twice.
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