{"id":126736,"date":"2022-05-17T23:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-britains-housing-market-is-crumbling-letters\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T00:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:08:28","slug":"why-britains-housing-market-is-crumbling-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-britains-housing-market-is-crumbling-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Britain\u2019s housing market is crumbling | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSteve Smart, Ken Baldry, Alan Gent and Margaret Dickinson respond to a piece by Simon Jenkins on the chronic shortage of homes and climbing pricesSimon Jenkins largely misses the point in analysing Britain\u2019s housing situation (Michael Gove is right about one thing: building more homes won\u2019t solve anything, 13 May). Yes, it is true that many owners are underoccupying their homes, but he devotes one cursory sentence to our desperately inadequate social housing provision, and none at all to the large and growing private rented sector. For 40-plus years, our governments have persisted in the absurd notion that the market, with a little help from housing associations, would supply our housing needs. The result is that there is a chronic shortage of affordable housing everywhere, particularly for rent. And the private rented sector in the UK, unlike elsewhere, suffers from tenant insecurity, unregulated rents and poor conditions \u2013 while receiving huge benefit subsidies that add nothing to physical provision. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Steve Smart, Ken Baldry, Alan Gent and Margaret Dickinson respond to a piece by Simon...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-wY8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4906,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/segro-tackles-london-housing-shortage-with-homes-cum-warehouses-approach\/","url_meta":{"origin":126736,"position":0},"title":"Segro tackles London housing shortage with homes-cum-warehouses approach","date":"February 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r At a disused coffee factory in west London, Britain\u2019s largest listed industrial property developer is embarking on what it hopes will become a new approach to easing the capital\u2019s housing shortage.\r \r Source : South China Morning Post\r Read more...Segro tackles London housing shortage with homes-cum-warehouses approach","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":73327,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-wants-to-build-650000-new-homes-by-2029-to-solve-citys-chronic-housing-shortage\/","url_meta":{"origin":126736,"position":1},"title":"London mayor Sadiq Khan wants to build 650,000 new homes by 2029 to solve city\u2019s chronic housing shortage","date":"November 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r London\u2019s mayor said that he would tackle a chronic housing shortage by allowing denser construction and developing small sites like gardens and shops, in a move criticised by one opponent as a \u201cgarden grab\u201d. 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