The existential dread of families having no security of tenure whilst children are in a good school surrounded by happy friends is just one aspect of the crisis that really boils my blood.
Massive house building - social and private - would also provide huge amounts of apprenticeships in skilled trades for young people coming up through society.
Much more useful than a university degree in a social 'science' !
Another great piece from Mr Embery. Immigration, family breakdowns and the banking system are subjects rarely discussed with common sense and with a what is best for the British people agenda. Finally the foundations of our countries increasingly poor mental health is also avoided within the walls of Westminster.
"How odd that in a society that places so much emphasis on the importance of mental health, almost to the point of obsession, and even to the degree that we try to protect people from hurty words and alternative opinions lest it cause them psychological distress, we pay virtually no attention to the real and lasting anxiety experienced by the millions who are victims of our crumbling housing market." Isn't this also the deeper meaning of politics? Focusing on questionably important matters to move away the attention from seriously important or urgent situations.
The way I see it, is that a housing crisis is not only affecting house prices and mental health of families, which are not able to reach stability with their lives, but it also negatively affects the job market. More houses and more people living in an area means more services needed. A proper chain effect to overall bust the economy.
Same thing is happening here in Canada and all over the West and for the same reasons Paul outlines here. The only conclusion you can come to at this point is that it's deliberate. A deliberate downsizing of material conditions for our countries. The PMC, the laptop class is in charge and these are their priorities. And there's no way to vote your way out of this mess anywhere.
More immigrants came to Britain in 2022 (745,000) than in the twenty years 1980-2000 (609,000). NO OTHER ISSUE MATTERS MORE TO BRITAIN'S FUTURE than stopping the deliberate, organised and evil 'Great Replacement' - it's not a conspiracy theory, it's a conspiracy fact, plain and simple.
I blame Margaret Thatcher and Right to Buy. I blame the loosening up of the mortgage market so that highly unsuitable people were being given mortgages by dubious brokers who then would sell the debt on to a third party. Very dodgy along with self-certification.
What Thatcher should have done was offer government run 100% mortgages to suitable council tenants to get them onto the private home ownership ladder. Suitable meaning those in long-term secure well-paid permanent employment.
A mortgage only lasts 20-30 years - rent never ends - you are paying it up to the day you die!
And you have nothing to show for it at the end.
I am sure if the government had made such mortgages available to suitable council tenants Thatcher would have had her new working class Tory voters without selling off any public housing stock which would have been freed up for people on the waiting list who could never pay a mortgage.
As it was the policy proved a social disaster - mass homelessness and destitution within a few years - I remember it well - the streets of London awash with homeless people - it was a disgrace and made me ashamed to be British. I had never seen anything like it.
Of course it turned out that the man who had sold Thatcher on the Right to Buy - primarily as a cost saving vote winner - was himself a major slum landlord!
I have just been reading in the Big Issue (the old Xmas edition) about the huge number of council flats which were sold on by original purchasers to unscrupulous landlords. They then house immigrants and others at the bottom of society in poor and unsanitary condition whilst getting loads from housing Benefit. This is another level of scandal.
Yes the insane amounts of public funds being siphoned into private bank accounts - many off shore and paying no taxes - via housing benefit is indeed scandalous!
Spot on assessment.
The existential dread of families having no security of tenure whilst children are in a good school surrounded by happy friends is just one aspect of the crisis that really boils my blood.
Massive house building - social and private - would also provide huge amounts of apprenticeships in skilled trades for young people coming up through society.
Much more useful than a university degree in a social 'science' !
Excellent point re apprenticeships.
Another great piece from Mr Embery. Immigration, family breakdowns and the banking system are subjects rarely discussed with common sense and with a what is best for the British people agenda. Finally the foundations of our countries increasingly poor mental health is also avoided within the walls of Westminster.
"How odd that in a society that places so much emphasis on the importance of mental health, almost to the point of obsession, and even to the degree that we try to protect people from hurty words and alternative opinions lest it cause them psychological distress, we pay virtually no attention to the real and lasting anxiety experienced by the millions who are victims of our crumbling housing market." Isn't this also the deeper meaning of politics? Focusing on questionably important matters to move away the attention from seriously important or urgent situations.
The way I see it, is that a housing crisis is not only affecting house prices and mental health of families, which are not able to reach stability with their lives, but it also negatively affects the job market. More houses and more people living in an area means more services needed. A proper chain effect to overall bust the economy.
Same thing is happening here in Canada and all over the West and for the same reasons Paul outlines here. The only conclusion you can come to at this point is that it's deliberate. A deliberate downsizing of material conditions for our countries. The PMC, the laptop class is in charge and these are their priorities. And there's no way to vote your way out of this mess anywhere.
More immigrants came to Britain in 2022 (745,000) than in the twenty years 1980-2000 (609,000). NO OTHER ISSUE MATTERS MORE TO BRITAIN'S FUTURE than stopping the deliberate, organised and evil 'Great Replacement' - it's not a conspiracy theory, it's a conspiracy fact, plain and simple.
I blame Margaret Thatcher and Right to Buy. I blame the loosening up of the mortgage market so that highly unsuitable people were being given mortgages by dubious brokers who then would sell the debt on to a third party. Very dodgy along with self-certification.
What Thatcher should have done was offer government run 100% mortgages to suitable council tenants to get them onto the private home ownership ladder. Suitable meaning those in long-term secure well-paid permanent employment.
A mortgage only lasts 20-30 years - rent never ends - you are paying it up to the day you die!
And you have nothing to show for it at the end.
I am sure if the government had made such mortgages available to suitable council tenants Thatcher would have had her new working class Tory voters without selling off any public housing stock which would have been freed up for people on the waiting list who could never pay a mortgage.
As it was the policy proved a social disaster - mass homelessness and destitution within a few years - I remember it well - the streets of London awash with homeless people - it was a disgrace and made me ashamed to be British. I had never seen anything like it.
Of course it turned out that the man who had sold Thatcher on the Right to Buy - primarily as a cost saving vote winner - was himself a major slum landlord!
I have just been reading in the Big Issue (the old Xmas edition) about the huge number of council flats which were sold on by original purchasers to unscrupulous landlords. They then house immigrants and others at the bottom of society in poor and unsanitary condition whilst getting loads from housing Benefit. This is another level of scandal.
Yes the insane amounts of public funds being siphoned into private bank accounts - many off shore and paying no taxes - via housing benefit is indeed scandalous!
Nothing to do with mass immigration then??
That, I feel, is the straw that will finally break the camel's back.
But is not the sole reason.