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Edrith's avatar

Great piece!

I think the only area I disagree slightly is on social housing - where the exorbitant funds we're currently paying on housing benefit could make this a better investment than it might otherwise appear. Though I'd prefer a greater focus on councils directly building new social housing, rather than (as I suspect will happen) most of the funds just being used to buy up vacant properties.

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Prashanth Kuchibhotla's avatar

Social housing isn’t the answer. We are not a totalitarian country like Singapore which can railroad the nation into 75% social housing.

I do not trust councils to build the right types of houses or estimate demand properly, or build them at low cost in a timely manner.

And who’s to say the NIMBYs objections won’t be there for these houses? I can see “will attract the wrong kind of people” arguments from a mile.

Loosen supply side regulations and the market will sort itself out.

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