Lots more mouths to feed...and house....

JonnyBravo

treliac wrote: »

And with the quality of a lot of new builds, would you want one anyway?

Absolutely not. Nothing worse. I hate (most) new builds with the kind of fervour that degenerate reserves for McKinsey it would seem.

markharding557

As with everything our government will not deal with this problem until it becomes so acute that they cannot politically ignore it any more.
I think this is some way off yet but it will come if population continues to rise

dopester

chucky wrote: »

if there isn't enough jobs - there will be higher levels of emigration.

i'm not talking exclusively emigration across borders but across regions in the UK. certain regions will have a higher demand for people to live in than others - for example the south-east currently.

emigration to other countries would also probably happen on a larger scale.

What do you make of this Chucky? (I don't disagree with you btw, especially the South-East, and it ties in with this which I've focused on for a long time.)

Coalition to tell unemployed to 'get on your bike'
Radical plans to relocate the long term unemployed to areas where there are jobs are being drawn up by the Coalition.
By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 9:00PM BST 26 Jun 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/7856349/Coalition-to-tell-unemployed-to-get-on-your-bike.html

One of their proposed solutions - letting the people who do move go to top of the housing list - is a complete joke. Those areas of improved opportunity and higher wealth already have high demand.

The solutions should be left to the private sector, which in itself will bring about ways of generating employment and growth, with only wider strategic overview left to Government.

I do know this much.... there are powerful forces in play which are very challenging to any Government. They've reached the limit on how much financial support they can continue to channel to many declining areas, in terms of benefits, public sector employment, and the costs of maintaining infrastructure (what for, when those areas aren't paying their way, but are a major drag?).

And many businesses, which were ticking over in many of these areas with unsustainable boom money now failing - tax take falling - bringing the squeeze of maintaining the public sector in its current costly form - vortex.

chucky

dopester wrote: »

What do you make of this Chucky? (I don't disagree with you btw, especially the South-East, and it ties in with this which I've focused on for a long time.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/7856349/Coalition-to-tell-unemployed-to-get-on-your-bike.html

One of their proposed solutions - letting the people who do move go to top of the housing list - is a complete joke. Those areas of improved opportunity and higher wealth already have high demand.

The solutions should be left to the private sector, which in itself will bring about ways of generating employment and growth, with only wider strategic overview left to Government.

I do know this much.... there are powerful forces in play which are very challenging to any Government. They've reached the limit on how much financial support they can continue to channel to many declining areas, in terms of benefits, public sector employment, and the costs of maintaining infrastructure (what for, when those areas aren't paying their way, but are a major drag?).

And many businesses, which were ticking over in many of these areas with unsustainable boom money now failing - tax take falling - bringing the squeeze of maintaining the public sector in its current costly form - vortex.

the concept is a good idea but in practice it's political soundbites i feel.

what they're saying is they'd like to make the areas with high levels of unemployment less populated and migrate them to areas with better prospects. this is the opposite of what Labour did where they 'created' jobs in many of these types of areas.

you're in danger of creating ghost towns if we go down this route IMO. also as you mention those people that have been moved are favourably treated with council housing. not a good move in my opinion and politically motivated rather than anything else.

treliac

What would happen if someone goes, to get into a nicer part of the country, moves into their new home and then decides they 'don't like the job' - I wonder!