Housing - the silent crisis?

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The shocking state of housing in this country for anyone who didn't get on the gravy train in earlier decades, that is.

The homelessness. The sheer costs of housing. The tiny rooms and tiny houses. Storage rooms converted to miniscule 'bedrooms'. The dirt and dilapidation of so many rentals. Increasingly greedy landlords and letting agents. A cool house-share like The Young Ones would never exist now. The gentle landlord I once had (a vicar's wife) and her relaxed tenants - is no more. Just the sheer lack of decent affordable housing for so many.

300,000 more people coming to UK every year as well, which makes bad matters even worse, if they could be worse that is.

Is any politician from any party ever going to do anything on this issue? All I ever heard is daft initiatives that are a drop in the ocean.

It's enough for me lurking. I'd rather have a smaller house and more green space. 3% sounds pretty high to me and is more than I'd have thought tbh.

I dont think the percentage matters as such. Its the density thats the issue. This causes environmental issues, flooding, problems with wildlife, and to us mental health issues. Not to mention community issues, like traffic, over subscribed schools and doctors.

Don't forget 1 in 3 mouthfuls of food come from bees, so if we wipe out the green space, we wipe out our food. It sounds crazy but we need to look after the worms and the bees, its what keeps us in food.
We have to build smart.
We need more homes, but not the massive new estates with tiny boxed in gardens. Planners go in on a field, apply for 500 homes knowing they won't get it, get planning for 300 and everyone feels like they've won.

Personally, I still think there's a massive problem with world overpopulation (not that that is a popular view).

However, if anyone disagrees with me, I'd be curious to know what number before infinite, is considered a sustainable population for planet earth ? And, more importantly, does mother nature agree ?

And when planning allow for 300 in reality the land can probably support less than half of that.

I'm someone who has built homes and completed extensive renovations of previously uninhabited homes. Often it would be cheaper to demolish and rebuild but rules don't allow it.

Another issue we have with housing are pubs holding on to public houses which are empty. No reason for these homes not being converted back into family homes. The issue is the pubs want stupid money for them unless they are in a very dilapidated state.

lurking your completely right, i feel like we are at a turning point with wildlife, just look at the decline in numbers. Its massive, we don't trump wildlife we need to coexist. We need land to be able to feed ourselves as well as house ourselves, we need to recognise we are part of the ecosystem not just see ourselves as "special" because we've climbed the evolution ladder, which is a ladder we draw our own steps on.

want2b your right theres an old pub near me its been derelict for at least 10 years, property near me hasn't just quadrupled its sky rocketed. Suddenly the boards for development have gone up. Its good that its being developed, but its taken 10 years of waiting to happen. Inevitably the 1 in 8 housing association rule will apply, so the council will have 2 of them and the rest will be £300,000 upwards.