House prices are way up high and there are many that need housing that is affordable.
Obviously the answer is to build new homes but how should it be done without detrimenting the environment and social fabric of the country?
- is the answer to build new towns?
- expand cities
- higher rise in city centres, after all london is very low density.
- or how about if they just built FIVE new homes in EVERY settlement in the Uk, would that solve the shortage.
2006-10-28 04:22:28 · 7 answers · asked by wave 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
In my area the housing shortage is not helped by houses being left unoccupied for months at a time. The situation is awful as I think people will always need houses , yet hundreds of homes are empty due to private letting agencies charging far too much. Most these private lets expect a months rent in advance, a bond of an extral months rent and then a fee as well.
Council and Housing Association homes are not let with all these extras expected but some homes still lie vacant due I suspect to red tape proceedures .New homes being built are far too expensive for first time buyers, who I think need more help in getting on the property ladder.
2006-10-28 04:40:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are a number of reasons for the housing shortage in some areas, the growing population and the growth in the number of single households as result of divorce or relationship breakdown. Tax relief to encourage home sharing might be useful.
Some areas of the country don't have a shortage at all but do have a shortage of employment which leads people to move away to more densely occupied areas. Regeneration of these areas is another solution.
2006-10-28 05:09:40 · answer #2 · answered by Rosie Ro 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of Brown-site areas that can be regenerated. But the big issue that is causing house shortages is mass immigration!!! Stop that and towns and cities will cope.
2006-10-28 04:38:29 · answer #3 · answered by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Start a moratorium on immigration. In twenty years or so your housing crunch should begin to ease. Western Europeans don't have enough babies to cover their losses in death. I believe it's 1.8 deaths per birth.
2006-10-28 04:35:57 · answer #4 · answered by drkstr1973 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best solution is to destroy the "buy to let" market, as these property investors are making it difficult for ordinary people to buy homes.
2006-10-28 09:15:19 · answer #5 · answered by nemesis 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
build wooden huts on the goodwin sands!
2006-10-28 04:41:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
live like nomads. let's make tents fashionable
2006-10-28 08:47:04 · answer #7 · answered by fair-and-squire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋