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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I agree with pretty much everything you say except the immigration thing.

If you actually look at the statistics rather than listening to all the rhetoric you’ll realise that immigration into the UK really isn’t a problem. The main problem with the housing market isn’t immigrants who make up a tiny fraction of the people looking for a house, the main issue is that consecutive governments for years on end have not built enough houses.

The reason for this is actually pretty simple, it doesn’t cost much more money to build a house that will sell for a million pounds than a house that will sell for £100,000, so contractors build loads of expensive homes because it’s more profitable. What the government needs to do is force a minimum number of affordable houses to be built per year. Make it so they have to build affordable homes

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