{"id":109567,"date":"2019-08-01T21:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/heres-how-britains-broken-housing-system-can-be-fixed-in-a-decade-joe-beswick\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:04:57","slug":"heres-how-britains-broken-housing-system-can-be-fixed-in-a-decade-joe-beswick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/heres-how-britains-broken-housing-system-can-be-fixed-in-a-decade-joe-beswick\/","title":{"rendered":"Here's how Britain's broken housing system can be fixed in a decade | Joe Beswick"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThere is no shortage of ideas on how to solve the housing crisis. All that is lacking is the political willNew figures released on Wednesday confirmed what we already knew: homeownership is becoming increasingly out of reach for young people. A survey by Santander found 70% of 18- to 34-year-olds now believe that homeownership is over for their generation. Our housing system has been allowed to degenerate to such an extent that secure and affordable housing is increasingly unavailable to working-class people, and in many places middle-class people too. But it\u2019s not for a lack of ideas that this has happened. What we are lacking is the political will.Fifty years ago the country had a fairly stable housing system. The need for secure, affordable housing of the middle class was largely met through homeownership, and that of the working class through widely available social housing. But a reliance on the private market to deliver homes since the 1980s, and the loss of millions of social homes over recent decades, has destroyed this system. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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There is no shortage of ideas on how to solve the housing crisis. 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