This Matters: UK housing is broken, can anyone fix it? - BBC News

More houses are being built - well, that's what every party is saying to get your vote.
But how come there aren't enough? And will any of them fulfil that promise?
Come and find out whether this election could really get you a nice house.

[edmundblackadder]

I remember my grandad saying he bought his house for a few hundred pounds, just goes to show how far we've gone

[jagarem]

The reason there’s poor quality of flats isn’t because there’s a large group people renting private it’s due to the fact that the planning regulations were torn up.

[ABanRocks]

The fact is the people who own houses don't want lots of new house because it will reduce their house value. Huge percentage of people don't really want it sadly.

[sarahjane]

1 year later homes are 300, 000.

If the prices drop, incredibly rich people that can afford it will buy them up fast for above the asking price and rent them out . More people owning more than one home and more people not even being able to purchase a first. The gap will only get bigger

[gowjer]

Stop letting people into the country. Job done

[andymacrae]

The Immigration Invasion. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work that out.

[svhjfeSAadcjs]

Easy solution, tax second houses with 25% VAT and property tax of 10% per year, and third houses and above at 50% VAT and 20% per year. Watch the supply explode as speculators and investors dump houses and suddenly, the fact that there are more houses than people in the world will be reflected in markets.

[Nickle]

Migration is the problem. Where do they live?
Fix the root cause.

[havebadday]

Don’t forget the policies of the Bank of England has had a major role in this disaster

[sadhappy]

If 300, 000 come in one year.... What could the problem be?

[supernova]

Nothing about unrestrained immigration?? Wow.

[Rockmachine]

Not just the UK, but all over the world this is a problem. In the end you'll find that over population is the root of all the housing issues.

[BobBob-cnyy]

Privatise the BBC make them work for a living 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[macred]

Maybe we should have not let the Tories sell off the council housing stock in the 80's.

[blade]

I wonder if having 300, 000 net migrants a year with a much higher fertility rate than native Brits has anything to do with it ? 🤔🤔🤔

[jasondevon]

We let in MILLIONS of foreigners in a short period and that raised the price of housing. High demand combined with low supply makes high prices - simple economics. Our population raised by 5 million more than it should have done between 2005 and 2015. Get Brexit done and keep tight borders or it will become worse.

[suiloongyong]

Expensive in England ?

Hong Kong : Hold my Molotov Cocktail.

[etoprodlenka]

I think the problem is in lots of immigrants, not in new homes.

To be honest, I’m also an expat. My husband and I moved here as professionals.

Being Russians we had to obtain working Visas. We were waiting for visas for 3 months. We had to pass IELTS, proof qualification, make tuberculosis check. An employer spent thousands of pounds for our visas providing sponsorship. We can live in the UK only while we have a well paid job, an employer which provides sponsorship, in other case we have to leave.


On the other hand, I see immigrants who even don’t know English and they don’t need any sponsorship, work, visa to live here. Some of them even don’t want to work. Someone stole my wallet with BRP, driving license and money. Рoliсe can’t deal with all cases. We see increasing robberies, stabbing. I suppose these things have some connection to immigrants. I don’t want to blame anyone, but this is the reality.

And It’s not about Brexit. It’s about different attitude to different nations. Some people don’t have any limits to stay in the UK and they use their rights up 150%.

We live on island. The country literally has borders. It can’t provide homes and work for everyone in the world. Especially for people who can’t make positive impact.

I think, there should be strong rules for every nation without exception. Make the standarts for immigrants, for jobs for immigrants. Strict rules. All candidates have to show how they can be useful. If they pass all tests, they can live here, otherwise they have to train and work more and try again.

[TheMagicJIZZ]

Our population had increased by 5 Millon YOUNG people. Old people live longer. We have primary school overflowing with foreign children. Supply is a problem but we are forgetting our population is growing to 73 Millon by 2035

[alileevil]

Bring more ppl in. I'm sure it'll solve the problem.