Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
NIMBYism is killing this country. We have the smallest available housing stock in Europe by some margin. Labour are right to be trying to make a dent in the issue.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
They could always start with this issue:
actiononemptyhomes.org/why-empty-homes-matter
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The effect of this would be extremely minimal. Almost all empty homes in the UK are homes that are temporarily empty pending sale or between renters. Having empty homes is actually extremely normal, you can’t really not have empty homes, as people are always moving.
The UK has far fewer empty empty homes than anywhere else in the developed world. Our housing stock isn’t enough.
There’s no other option but to build more. I hope Labour’s plans can help with that, but who knows. And it’d need to be sustained.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
I said it’s a start, not the answer to everything.
Also:
I’m not against building more homes. We need more council homes for sure. Housing should be seen as a human need, not a commodity to trade.
frazorth@feddit.uk 5 days ago
There are 28 million families in the UK. [1]
Your article implies there are 25 million houses and 1 million is empty. [2]
The empty houses in the photos are not suitable for living in and should be condemned if they haven’t already. Rebuilding a mid-terrace house is not simple and even after blow all of that we managed 1 million out of the 4 million required to at least have one home per family. That sounds like a terrible plan to work on the most expensive work and ultimately not make a dent in the issue.
[1] www.ons.gov.uk/…/2023#%3A~%3Atext=There+were+28.4….
[2] actiononemptyhomes.org/why-empty-homes-matter