{"id":136471,"date":"2023-05-02T21:29:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sunak-and-starmer-are-obsessed-with-home-ownership-neither-seems-to-want-to-fix-the-housing-crisis-kieran-yates\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T14:44:45","slug":"sunak-and-starmer-are-obsessed-with-home-ownership-neither-seems-to-want-to-fix-the-housing-crisis-kieran-yates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sunak-and-starmer-are-obsessed-with-home-ownership-neither-seems-to-want-to-fix-the-housing-crisis-kieran-yates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunak and Starmer are obsessed with home ownership. Neither seems to want to fix the housing crisis | Kieran Yates"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBoth parties emphasise \u2018getting on the ladder\u2019 to win middle-class votes, ignoring the vast majority of people affected by this emergencyBritain is obsessed with home ownership. This might date back to our history of land ownership, class and colonial exploit but the fixation lives on, thanks in no small part to Thatcher\u2019s introduction of the right to buy in 1980.This weekend, both parties made their bids to reckon with the housing crisis, and both leaders, predictably, zeroed in on ownership. The Tories have for years declared they would transform \u201cgeneration rent\u201d into \u201cgeneration buy\u201d and Rishi Sunak is now considering bringing back help to buy \u2013 a 2013 Tory policy that ended last year \u2013 to win votes at the next election. He also recently announced he would scrap the house-building target of 300,000 every year in England, displaying a wilful ignorance of what is actually needed to plug the housing deficit. House-building alone won\u2019t solve the crisis, but it will hugely contribute to some of the most urgent needs in this country \u2013 namely the 1.3 million people on English council house waiting lists in need of social rented homes, many of whom are privately renting and sliding into poverty. (Meanwhile, the homes available to rent in the UK fell by a third over the past 18 months.)Kieran Yates is the author of All the Houses I\u2019ve Ever Lived In Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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