We do not need to build any new homes. There, I’ve said it…
Ignoring second homes, 1 in 25 homes is unoccupied. Instead of building, create incentives to bring these back into some form of ownership; it would be a quicker fix and would enable the countryside to remain green.
However, by building you create work - and therefore tax income - for hundreds of industries; bricklayers, groundwork’s, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters etc. and hence Labour plan to build its way into a meaningful economy. Shame it involves destroying parts of the countryside to facilitate its aims when repurposing existing dwellings would be an easier option. Another example of common sense being relegated to accommodate an ideology…

hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

When you hear leftists talking, they don't want to acknowledge the absurdity of struggling with a housing shortage on one hand and then justifying mass immigration on the other.

What is the point of any policy for housing when the problem is being made unfixable.

It’s a similar cognitive dissonance to people who want to drastically reduce immigration with no mention of the enormous public sector job vacancies nor the ageing population and decline in birth rates, I guess.

Not to me.

I'm well aware that to change the neoliberal project Europe has engaged on will come with transitional pain. People chose centralism for the easy life, things have to be really bad before they ever turn to the left or right who will actually change things properly...it has to be really bad.

Regardless, to stay the centralist path means economic collapse anyway...personally I predict before the end of the decade. That collapse will make 2008 look like a picnic. Welfare and benefits will be like Greece. It's going to be wild and extremely painful.

In truth that's the real left and right's chance.

Until then whoever is in charge until then will be forced by the system to fall into line to a large extent....You have seen it with Meloni in Italy and Wilders in Denmark...Le Pen has compromised too.

Until the neoliberalism superstructure changes significantly nothing really changes.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Fair enough, but those are all fairly long term fixes and would not reduce our reliance on immigration for many years.

You will always have a chunk of the workforce doing nothing.

When you hear conspiracy theory proponents talking they don’t want to acknowledge the absurdity of struggling with a housing shortage by pretending that immigration is to blame.

Workers are needed or the economy fails. Whether those workers come from increased birth rates at home, or from abroad, they need housing.

What needs fixing is the number of us who could work, but choose not to. It wouldn’t solve the problem but it would help reduce the demand for overseas workers.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.