{"id":68178,"date":"2017-10-04T16:47:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T09:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-theresa-mays-pledges-wont-fix-the-uks-housing-disaster-matt-wilde\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T10:04:22","slug":"why-theresa-mays-pledges-wont-fix-the-uks-housing-disaster-matt-wilde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-theresa-mays-pledges-wont-fix-the-uks-housing-disaster-matt-wilde\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Theresa May\u2019s pledges won\u2019t fix the UK\u2019s housing disaster | Matt Wilde"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRent controls are drastically needed to stop people being priced out of homes. But the Tories are wedded to the free market and won\u2019t let down their landlord friendsIf you want to see cognitive dissonance in action, watch the Conservative party try to develop popular housing policies without contravening its loyalty to developers, landlords or free market fundamentalism. For years, experts from across the housing sector have called for investment in social housing and proper regulation of the private rented sector, so it was entirely predictable that Theresa May\u2019s flagship policy at this year\u2019s conference was a \u00a310bn boost for the housing bubble in the form of the Help to Buy scheme. There may now be some move towards investment in housebuilding \u2013 albeit in partnership with large corporations \u2013 but the problem remains that the Conservatives are unwilling to confront the origins of the UK\u2019s \u201cgreat housing disaster Related: Conservative conference 2017: Theresa May to announce council house building programme – Politics live Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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