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use our grey power to force real affordable, safe houses to be built whoch won't kill our planet but actually save it!!

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peaches50 Fri 24-Nov-17 18:59:30

www.rtpi.org.uk/media/2262469/debate_30_mar_2017_janice_morphet_article.pdf

There's a quiet revolution going ahead with councils across the country quietly 'taking back control' from developers and finally using their powers to dictate house building in their areas, and who will get them. Instead of lining developers'shareholders' pockets, IF land owned by the church, the government, NHS, 'land bankers' etc is counted and made available, by coercion and COP if not willingly offered we could have a major revolution. Have a look at www.zedfactory.com/ who build green homes - no energy bills and enough energy to run an electric car! It's our children's and grandchildren's future and we are one world. So let's force change with petitions, scouting out abandoned homes and boarded up plots - and report them to our councils to do something about it. Who's with me? a petition?..... No one should be making a choice about 'eating or heating' it's criminal - and btw we'd need 11 nuclear power stations to provide the energy for the electric vehicles by 2040.. that's going to happen isnt it?!

durhamjen Tue 13-Feb-18 13:58:41

www.24housing.co.uk/news/welsh-government-plans-land-bank-tax/

Well done, Wales. The rest of the UK should follow to get more houses built.

durhamjen Thu 15-Feb-18 14:45:08

www.24housing.co.uk/news/one-in-seven-homeless-in-kensington-chelsea/

We need beneficial ownership to be declared, so we know who is keeping houses empty in Kensington and Chelsea.

Jalima1108 Thu 15-Feb-18 15:08:40

I haven't read the whole thread, so apologies if someone has already posted this:

There is a new town already in progress near Plymouth. sherford.org/pages/faqs/84

durhamjen Thu 15-Feb-18 15:13:04

Very useful for those who live and work in Kensington and Chelsea.

durhamjen Fri 16-Feb-18 16:20:04

www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/the-tory-housing-minister-was-in-a-private-facebook-group

that wants to sell off all council housing, and bring back workhouses for debtors.

durhamjen Fri 16-Feb-18 23:44:23

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/developers-real-estate-homes-planning-permission-unbuilt-social-housing-crisis-figures-a8212641.html

That would make a big dent in the number of houses available.
Get them built!

durhamjen Fri 23-Feb-18 21:42:56

www.24housing.co.uk/news/council-housed-young-homeless-family-in-dickensian-conditions/

This is what Haringey Council think of council tenants.

durhamjen Fri 23-Feb-18 21:44:51

www.24housing.co.uk/news/government-homeless-task-force-still-to-meet/

Do you think they will ever do anything before next winter?

Baggs Sat 24-Feb-18 06:30:30

Justin Welby has apparently weighed in on the snobbish nimbyism surrounding new housing plans and talks about making housing about places to live rather than simply as investments. Apparently he has been critical in a book he has coming out next month of people owning second and even third homes, not for living in but just for the 'investment'. As I understand it, he's saying we seem to have forgotten what houses are for: shelter, warmth, homes.

durhamjen Wed 28-Feb-18 23:50:52

www.lbc.co.uk/news/weather/police-kicked-homeless-woman-out-of-warm-corridor/

durhamjen Wed 28-Feb-18 23:51:32

Hope she's not found dead tomorrow.

durhamjen Thu 01-Mar-18 00:17:25

inews.co.uk/opinion/rough-sleeping-deadly-weather-bad/

durhamjen Fri 02-Mar-18 12:06:13

www.24housing.co.uk/news/huge-swell-of-support-for-homeless-charities-and-outreach-teams/

durhamjen Sun 04-Mar-18 11:40:31

www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/03/homeless-charities-slam-open-season-street-people-crisis

We really need to start building more homes and quickly, to get people into work and take the homeless off the streets.

durhamjen Sun 04-Mar-18 11:58:31

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/03/affordable-housing-rural-england-planning-laws-loophole-exploited-developers-report

durhamjen Mon 05-Mar-18 10:39:31

May speaking now about her housing vision. Young people angry about handing over more of their income to landlords who just see their homes as assets.
How many Tory MPs is she criticising there?

She sounds a real socialist today. When is she going to change parties?

labourlist.org/2018/03/the-crisis-on-our-doorstep-our-national-homelessness-shame/

durhamjen Mon 05-Mar-18 10:52:02

The MP chosen to discuss the speech on behalf of the government is Kevin Hollinrake, an estate agent and a landlord!

durhamjen Mon 05-Mar-18 13:24:41

www.24housing.co.uk/news/sanctuary-secures-200m-private-placement/

Why do American companies want to buy into UK rented housing groups?

durhamjen Wed 07-Mar-18 20:20:44

theconversation.com/housing-crisis-cant-be-solved-by-tinkering-with-planning-laws-build-more-social-housing-instead-92902

Deedaa Wed 07-Mar-18 21:37:21

DD and her husband are finally selling the one bedroom flat that four of them live in and buying a three bedroom house. They both have degrees and the sort of good jobs that are supposed to make a degree worth paying for. I realised today that it has taken them 21 years to be able to buy a house. When DH and I got married in 1970 it took us one year to save the deposit and buy a house. I was a draughtsman and he was a lorry driver - not a degree between us. The housing crisis will never be solved while prices are so unaffordable.

durhamjen Wed 07-Mar-18 21:41:00

I saw an interestng list a couple of days ago - but can't remember where - showing that many of those who have manual jobs now earn more than those with degrees.
I also read today that in Manchester not a single affordable home was built in the last two years.

Like you say, Deedaa, there's a mismatch somewhere.

gillybob Wed 07-Mar-18 22:42:15

And what made them so unaffordable ?

durhamjen Wed 07-Mar-18 22:52:28

Housebuilders putting up the prices.

durhamjen Wed 07-Mar-18 22:57:05

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/05/theresa-may-cake-housebuilding-planning-policy

gillybob Wed 07-Mar-18 23:06:13

Greed.