58
Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’
(www.theguardian.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2025
58 points (100.0% liked)
UK Politics
4113 readers
133 users here now
General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I am constantly surprised the government simply doesn't start a construction company, compulsory purchase brown field land and just build fucking build.
Is this illegal or something? Is it those pesky Europeans stopping the government from doing this? Can't they simply say, "fuck your objections we're doing this".
The tories won't do this for idealogical reasons. Labour rarely have the political capital or will for anything like this at scale.
For ideological reasons sure Labour should welcome a government run public house building company. Nationalise It!. Same with Greens or this new Corbyn party. But you don't hear anything like this.
There must be something else going on.
For years, successive governments have been in thrall to the large housebuilders. These businesses are incredibly bad for our society, building soulless estates with no facilities and with car-dependency baked in, all the while keeping supply deliberately short to inflate prices. Yet government always thinks these guys are the future of house building for some reason
@mannycalavera @RubberDuck
Swindon Borough Council has a housing company, not sure if that is close to what you mean?
https://www.swindon.gov.uk/news/article/1217/five-year/_business/_plan/_to/_provide/_fresh/_impetus/_for/_councils/_housing/_company