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The housing crisis will not be solved with platitudes or blaming others.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/15/theresa-may-conservatives-broken-housing-market-housebuilding-budget

Theresa May vows to personally take charge of the UK’s housing crisis


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Theresa May vows to personally solve the housing crisis in the United Kingdom. One of the first measures she announces is to remove housing association debt from the government's balance sheet, meaning it will no longer qualify as public borrowing and effectively remove Social Housing from the public sector and hand it to the private sector as a "give away" which, she tells us will " free up associations to build more homes". Complete nonsense. The reality is that it makes "the governments books look better" and gives the private sector another avenue of opportunity in their quest to make even more profits from the housing crisis and its victims.This is against a background of the fact that the number of council homes in Britain has fallen to a new record low, with fewer properties to rent from local authorities than at any point in almost 50 years.

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Sajid Javid, the communities secretary, wades in with his contribution calling on older people to stop blocking badly needed new developments and lambasting baby boomers who believe young people could afford a home if they cut back on nights out and avocados. The arrogance of Javid with his ignorant comments, matched by a Prime Minister with her condescending remarks, demonstrate the continuing tactics of a bankrupt government who offer nothing but platitudes and a not very well hidden objective of a divide and control policy, pitting young against the "baby boomers" in a feeble attempt to divert attention away from the real problem.
Shifting housing association debt from one account to another and blaming one generation, creating a scapegoat for the failure of housing policy, is not the answer. As someone recently said, “We know what you are doing, and you will not succeed,”

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The solution to the housing crisis, which has been neglected by successive governments for decades, requires the building of homes on a scale not seen since the end of the war. Building a minimum of 1 million homes over the course of a Parliament, 80% of which must be home specifically for rent, will go some way to relieving the acute problems faced by thousands of families in today's Britain.The people of this country have a right to decent living accommodation at affordable cost and can no longer tolerate a government offering nothing but platitudes and division.




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