Angela Rayner and building more houses.

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I believe she's going to make a statement today or soon, about plans for house-building.

What would you like her to take into consideration as she makes these plans and implements them?

Would you send her an e-mail to say what you think about it all?

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Only if those flats have private balconies or terraces. Why should my access to the outdoors be restricted just because I'm old? The heck am I going to go up and down stairs/lift just to sit outside when I can just step out of my back door. Or should being sat outside with a coffee or glass of something only be the preserve of the young/home owners?

No i didnt THIS is what i said

And FFS Build homes for the climate we have now not the climate we had in 1965 I live in a Sanctuary sweat box one bedroom flat. I cant unload the washing machine without sweating my guts out. If animals were transported in the temperatures flats get up to there would be prosecutions. We need cooler homes.

And adjust housing policy Why should the childless/child free be expected to live like this and be treated like battery hens just because we havent reproduced.

Where did i say families shouldnt be in family homes I said people should not have to live in tiny sweatboxes just because they dont have living proof they have had sex without contraception I didnt say families shouldnt have family homes I said the child free should have something better than tiny sweat box flats So dont gaslight

Don’t email Angela or Keir unless they’re actually your MP.

Its better if you find your own MP and write to them with whatever you want to tell Angela or Keir.

Wanting a garden and more than 1 bedroom does not mean someone hates children and families.

Have you seen the thread about prisoners. They are better thought of on here than social housing tenants or older people

Or childfree people.

Oh give over. Why is wanting a family home to go to a family a bad thing? Your posts just reek of entitlement.

Yep

Agree with this as currently living in an area with massive new housing sites with very little extra infrastructure.

The nearest one to my village, on an old airfield, was around 950 new houses, mainly 4/5 bed detached as far as I can see. There is a new pub and a very over subscribed primary school but I don’t think there are shops, doctors or community rooms etc. Now there are plans to start phase 2 with another 400 odd houses but no mention of additional infrastructure.

As a result, local doctors are over stretched and local primary schools have temporary buildings to accommodate those who do not get in the new school. The social life in our village is affected as most of the community rooms ( church halls, sports clubs, British Legion, Working men’s Club, village hall etc) are fully booked for groups day and night.

The current news is that the nearest hospital, currently in poor over crowded accommodation, is likely to not get the promised finance for a rebuild that had been planned for many years and was included in the last government bill.

And once more with feeling @Santagotrippedoffbyareindeer

Only if those flats have private balconies or terraces. Why should my access to the outdoors be restricted just because I'm old? The heck am I going to go up and down stairs/lift just to sit outside when I can just step out of my back door. Or should being sat outside with a coffee or glass of something only be the preserve of the young/home owners?

Do you remember the neo-workhouse thing that was proposed a few years ago? That's what the right wing want. It would be the next step once security of tenure was gone.

I was saying on another thread earlier how endebted we all are to the low paid, who do essential jobs for insufficient pay, and keep the country running. The least we can give them is a home for life. If there's a shortage of homes, build more.

I agree with all of this. Regarding the immigrant situation - I live in a council flat on a large council estate. There have always been immigrant families on our estate (which is fine and we've had a good community vibe) but over the last 5 years there has been a seriously huge increase which I believe is a cause for concern regarding housing shortages. I live in a culdesac of around 20 house style flats, 15 of which have now been allocated to immigrants. If you don't live in council housing or a "deprived" area you really don't realise the impact this is having.

Mix smaller bungalow type homes in with the 2-3 beds. Lots of older people want to downsize but can't find the right properties.

That one bedroom flat you're in, you do realise there are families crammed into them too don't you? Families who have a higher need than you do to be in a multi-bedroomed property with outside space. You have a home that meets your needs, it's a roof with a room to call your own.

I'd happily go and live somewhere I wasn't constantly threatened by cars. Other countries have car-free neighbourhoods, why can't we?

I have emailed to suggest solar panels and ground source heat pumps to be a requirement on all new homes.

@Okayornot It’s killing rural communities. Young people can’t afford to stay because nowhere round here pays enough for them to afford to either rent or buy and a lot of the social
housing was brought under right to buy. We have a huge amount of housing stock laying empty because it’s been bought as investments/ lets.

I think it should be heavily taxed/ banned.

The problem is that building lots of houses isn't bringing down house prices. In the SE our small town has grown by 5,000 new homes in the last year and new build still go for £100k more than older homes, plus they are all 4-5 beds which first time buyers can't afford. So landlords buy them and let them at. £2000 a month.

The developers keep putting prices up (they know help to buy gives first time buyers up to 25% extra so they add that to the asking Price. Buy to let mortgages allow bigger loads so when they dont sell, landlords scoop in.

Result is higher rental prices keeping sale prices high and people priced out of buying by high rest. And so it goes on.

Oh give over. Why is wanting a family home to go to a family a bad thing? Your posts just reek of entitlement.

They have been tenanted by families. It's not up to you to decide they should be booted out when their family reaches a certain stage.

Tenants have boomerang adult children, same as we all do. Council tenants are unlikely to be handing out house Deianira to their young adult DC, so flying the best for somewhere secure is even harder. They might need a home office (WFH is great for keeping mothers and disabled people in work), so what's the problem with a spare room?

Weirdly, tenants who swap tenancies are often allowed a spare room from the start, but the second a child moves out and leaves a spare room behind that might be very useful to the people who have cared for the home for twenty years, the mob are baying for eviction. It's not the basis on which social housing has ever been run.

Why are you turning on tenants? Why not just advocate for a huge expansion in new council house construction?

I live with my 74 year old DH who has COPD ischemic heart disease and arthritis And because he has spasms and kicks me in the back we have to sleep seperately so he is in the living room. He uses a mobility scooter because he can only walk a few steps Having children is a choice Disability isnt

A room to call my own? Hah Thats not what you were saying about tenants earlier

That one bedroom flat you're in, you do realise there are families crammed into them too don't you? Families who have a higher need than you do to be in a multi-bedroomed property with outside space. You have a home that meets your needs, it's a roof with a room to call your own.

That's all the more reason to build better quality housing and more if it, isn't it?

Why this race to the bottom?

Is it just social housing you're bothered about or do you want anyone with more bedrooms than they need (in your opinion) to downsize?

I think family homes should be for families

But they’re going to “smash the gangs” and “process” all applicants super-fast. So all’s good. 👍