Councils reverse course on agreed plans after targets diluted despite acute shortage of homes

  • TWeaKEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    There isn’t so much a shortage of homes as there is an over-abundance of landlords.

    • theinspectorst@kbin.socialOP
      4·
      3 months ago

      https://www.centreforcities.org/publication/the-housebuilding-crisis/

      Compared to the average European country, Britain today has a backlog of 4.3 million homes that are missing from the national housing market as they were never built.

      […]

      Housebuilding rates in England and Wales have dropped by more than a third after the introduction of the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, from 2 per cent growth per year between 1856 and 1939 to 1.2 per cent between 1947 and 2019.

      This has been a key factor behind the UK’s long-standing housing crisis, which has led to inflated property prices and soaring rents in recent decades.

      • TWeaKEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I don’t deny that there is a shortage, I just think that it’s the lesser (lessor?) problem.