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Labour’s plan to build lots more housing, especially social housing, set out in detail here. Pennycook also did a thread on BlueSky which provides a handy summary.

So, in summary (with links to relevant bits of the thread): £39bn for a 10-year plan, aiming for 300,000 homes of which 180,000 will be social housing. The £39bn includes skills training and low-interest loans for social housing providers.

They’re going to reform (not abolish, unfortunately) Right to Buy, so that homes are less discounted, tenants will have to wait longer before they can buy the homes, and those in new homes will have an even longer wait - 35 years before any of those 180,000 projected new homes can be bought under right to buy.

  • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    2 steps forward and 1 step back. I’ll take it at this point, even if it’s imperfect

    • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      Doesn’t go as far forward as I’d like, but I don’t see a backward step here. More homes is good, more money for more homes is good, social housing is the best kind of housing, and mitigating the worst of right to buy is still a forward move, even if it’s not a whole step forward. So I make that 3.5 steps forward, 0 steps back!

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        the downside I see is that after 35 years, the value of the area will go up incredibly (building stable communities has the tendency of raising property prices), and the actual tenants who want to buy the homes they’ve raised kids in will simply not be able to afford the homes. If the wait was maybe 15 years, then they might have a chance.

        At the same time I can understand that making the waiting time period short could be potentially gamed

        • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          the actual tenants who want to buy the homes they’ve raised kids in will simply not be able to afford the homes

          But only they will be eligible to buy them. So, either they get to buy them or they just get to stay. Win-win?

          • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            I genuinely hope that’s the case. I have some misgivings about another government coming in and stating otherwise, whilst giving some token concessions to the tenants who currently live there to clear out.

              • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                that’s reassuring, and I guess is more a reflection of my own lack of faith in current governments worldwide in general

                • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  Yes, it’s fair - and indeed, good and right - to be sceptical. But we have to temper the scepticism with realism, which is the tricky bit!