Good that Andy Burnham and others are talking about abolishing ‘right to buy’, the disastrous Thatcherite policy that continues to destroy so many lives.
Yet we need to go further and introduce ‘right to buy back.’ Any former council homes now being privately rented out should be buyable back by councils with the same percentage discount they were originally sold for.
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If you take the population and divide by the rate of housing starts per year, you get a quantity in dimensions of time and units of years. This quantity roughly speaking is related to the "longevity of a dwelling" you need to have in order for the housing per person that's available not to decline. So if real longevity of houses is more or less a constant, then when this graph is high housing availability is declining, and when it's low it's growing... There's a reason millennials feel cheated
Dagnab it, I am constantly wishing I had more text in my messages and forgetting to tag stuff in my first post. This message is just to tag @economics@a.gup.pe and some hash tags #economics#housing#data#statistics
This discussion is about housing longevity and the adequate production rate of housing starts to keep housing from becoming scarce. There's a graph in the first post that shows very interesting dynamics.
At least two short-term let operators charge nearly £150 per night on Airbnb for flats in the new-build Dargavel scheme, beside Bishopton, Renfrewshire – where plans for 93 new council houses were scrapped last year.
Imagine if Republicans actually got on board with this awesome idea instead of painting it as the destruction of America like they undoubtedly will. Conservatives have lost their way and their minds, truly. https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C607StBrwUy
Straight out of Midland, Michigan, USA--just when you think you've heard it all. In the news: "Woman found living inside a Michigan grocery store sign".
Quote from article: "A woman in Midland had a novel approach to living rent-free: post up in a sign above a grocery store and turn it into a makeshift apartment."
Wow. Is this late stage capitalism or what? Lower the damn rent!
“Michigan woman found living inside rooftop store sign with desk and coffee maker. The woman told police she had been living inside the grocery store sign for roughly a year, and had been able to get electricity”
The Good Law Project's legal campaign against Michael Gove’s new rules blocking energy-efficient homes will reach the High Court on 18 June.
Gove’s planning guidance undermines the power of local communities to build housing that tackles fuel poverty and the climate crisis.
Holly Pester's short novel The Lodgers (2024), is a timely mediation on the unanchoredness of the peripatetic life of the renter/lodger. At times elliptical, with two narratives whose relations remains unsettled, this is a book which offers a real feeling for a key element of modern life; moving from one lodging/rental to another. While at time wry, it remains elegiac in its approach to tenant's despair & longing.
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced that, as of October 2023, there were 9 million unoccupied homes throughout the country. There are a total of 65.2 million homes in Japan, which means that unoccupied houses represent 13.8% of total homes.
How To Start Strengthening Your Town With Incremental Development
Will Gardner May 6, 2024
"...And incremental doesn’t have to mean slow. Incremental growth is potentially the fastest way to grow housing stock, revitalize downtown areas and fill town coffers. Large greenfield projects, despite their promise of hundreds or thousands of housing units, take years of work to come to fruition — usually with large political fights along the way. These are large, often long-shot bets that may not come through... Conversely, small infill projects can be initiated in a matter of weeks and months. As these projects happen, they attract further attention and resources to the town and create momentum for growth..."
Small infill includes accessory dwelling units, too - so called "granny flats" and remodeled garages or outbuildings. These could easily create a lot of new affordable housing.
Andy Burnham (still Mayor of Manchester) on social housing:
'One of the main reasons why the country has not built enough social homes for decades is because of the right-to-buy policy. Councils do not have an incentive to fund the building of new homes if they can be sold off cheaply & quickly. In the face of a desperate housing crisis, the existence of right to buy means we are in effect trying to refill a bath without being allowed to put the plug back in'!