Housing Waiting Lists to top 2 million

adr0ck

Housing waiting lists in England will reach record levels by 2011, according to a body of housing associations.
An extra 200,000 families over the next two years will push the total to a new high of around two million, the National Housing Federation said.
"The housing crisis is now so great that, unless dramatic action is taken, it may take decades for the nation to recover... we simply have not produced the number of homes we so desperately need."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7951556.stm

bubblesmoney

adr0ck wrote: »

Housing waiting lists in England will reach record levels by 2011, according to a body of housing associations.
An extra 200,000 families over the next two years will push the total to a new high of around two million, the National Housing Federation said.
"The housing crisis is now so great that, unless dramatic action is taken, it may take decades for the nation to recover... we simply have not produced the number of homes we so desperately need."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7951556.stm

these housing associations can put their money where their mouth is and buy the unsold houses already on the market. on one hand we have a record decrease in transactions and vacant homes and these chaps are talking about a shortage. if they indeed had a shortage they should be buying the stock already on the market that are not getting sold and clear the inventory build up in the system.

ad9898_3

Not the old shortage issue again. I wonder when this lie will finally be put to rest.

adr0ck

ad9898 wrote: »

Not the old shortage issue again. I wonder when this lie will finally be put to rest.

ad your confusing two separate issues

i.e. social housing and private housing

please read posts before posting

or are you saying that house prices are are not expensive enough?

PasturesNew

There is only a shortage of affordable housing. Affordable housing means "about the same price as social housing".

People are on the list trying to get an affordable rent in a place they can stay in for years.

Pssst

There is no housing shortage in this country. It is a situation which is being artificially created by those with an interest so that they and their cronies can profit by it.

See here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dooper786/test/pf1.html

Labours criminal pathfinder scheme is causing the wanton destruction of thousands of perfectly serviceable homes and then land is being sold to private developers for profit and to satisfy Labours penchant for dangerous social engineering.

The houses pictured above are in an area where there are dozens and dozens of similar houses being torn down in an unholy alliance with Lovell the developers.

Do you see anything wrong with them? answer..no

Really2

OK not trying to cause an argument here but.

Bears on here say there is no housing shortage and population as nothing to do with HPI.

We then have 2 million on housing waiting lists, to me that means we have a housing shortage.

Surely all the housing crash as done is stoped people from buying (at yes a high price) and caused them to look at gettting alternative accomodation.

Really2

Pssst wrote: »

There is no housing shortage in this country. It is a situation which is being artificially created by those with an interest so that they and their cronies can profit by it.

See here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dooper786/test/pf1.html

Will that house 2 million? I dont know of any propertys that are empty but if their were 1 million empty houses that would make it 1 in 25

Do people really see 1 in 25 house free or are we including inhabital stone built houses etc that need to be demolished and rebuilt.

Also surely even if their is an excess of houses it does not mean they are in the area needed.

ninky_2

Really2 wrote: »

OK not trying to cause an argument here but.

Bears on here say there is no housing shortage and population as nothing to do with HPI.

We then have 2 million on housing waiting lists, to me that means we have a housing shortage.

Surely all the housing crash as done is stoped people from buying (at yes a high price) and caused them to look at gettting alternative accomodation.

there is no shortage of housing. the problem is with distribution. unfortunately i fear the population doesn't have an appetite for the redistribution measures required.

StevieJ

Many people are roughing it at the moment, (ok not living on the streets) living where they would prefer not to live e.g. singles still at home, newly marrieds living with the inlaws. The bears think this is the normal state of affairs

Really2

ninky wrote: »

there is no shortage of housing. the problem is with distribution. unfortunately i fear the population doesn't have an appetite for the redistribution measures required.

So 1 in 25 property's are empty.

Or is that figure including derelict housing?