Brighton Yimby

Do you love Brighton but hate the housing crisis?. Do you want to help make our city affordable again?.

We also occasionally write housing articles.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

Two highly important points that are always missed in housing discourse:

1. Interest rates and credit supply have no long-run demand-side effect on rents.
2. Rental value for a given property is the yardstick for affordability, not average house prices.

[YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance]

An astonishing new report on how to build more walkable, climate friendly, well-designed homes led by local communities—from @createstreets by @scp_hughes and @bswud—comes with broader support than we have ever seen before. Huge thanks to all who made it possible! #Supurbia 1/

[Jim Gleeson @geographyjim]

Interesting on embodied carbon in new buildings: "If we recycle steel elements within a building and replace it with a new timber frame building, we could potentially sequester enough carbon from the atmosphere to start creating an embodied carbon deficit" https://t.co/bvB5anmXjo

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

"Well well isn't it the consequences of my own actions"

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

I would personally just not write the obvious bait article.

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

Everyone knows that journalists often twist the truth beyond recognition. We knew this before Leveson, and we certainly knew it afterwards. Yet if a news story plays into our own prejudices we take it as gospel. When attacked by the press it is tempting to hit back.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

@The_Hoost @createstreets I dont see how fighting affordable housing without an alternative does anything but increase property values.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

I personally would not take any opinions on housing affordability from someone who publicly and angrily opposed 1500 affordable homes developed by his local council.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The major component of the cost of living crisis is, as it has been for years, the cost of accommodation. The outrageous price of housing is caused by
a. the sale of council houses
b. failure to build new *social* housing
c. the deregulation of rent
d. second homes ...
Thread/

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

@The_Hoost @createstreets He did not mention any brownfield site. He just wanted the houses vetoed.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

https://t.co/I70j7D6IUr Source.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

Not using it for solar or biofuels doesn't make any sense. Both are needed for environmental reasons. Likewise neither of them permanently damage the agricultural quality of the land and our ability to return it to food growing potential if necessary.

[Urban Designer 🍃🏳️‍🌈🍃 @Urban__Designer]

They can even set up groups to facilitate other privileged people to moan. We have CPRE and a new poundland version now the "Community Planning Alliance".

They are shouty, ill informed & unable to make pragmatic rationales which is great for them as they have no accountability.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

"It's funny because I have seen literally no evidence of him publicly supporting affordable housing developments in his constituency whether high or low density"

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

Didn't know @lloyd_rm had a new sign.

[NIMBY Patrol @NimbyPatrol]

Ahhh yes, the mythical low density affordable housing. Also known as single family homes you bought in 1991.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

This is of course completely incompatable with the brownfield first approach CPRE demand that would see these sites concreted over or at best made inaccessible.

[Ros Coward 🍃💚🍃 @RosCoward]

Being valued by local people is strong enough reason to protect small patches of green space says @CPRE & the government should introduce "compulsory standards for access to nature into planning law." @michaelgove @CommunityPlann1 @CPRELondon
https://t.co/ymE4GYJ6Bo

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

You cannot humanely* push costs down for a given property except by increasing supply.

*(Reducing wages and/or the population don't count)

[RTÉ Prime Time @RTE_PrimeTime]

Does your home need to come down in value so others can buy theirs?

In addition to increasing supply, some experts think the Government should actively try to push property values down, explains @LouiseByrneNews #rtept https://t.co/9u0oCI0qFh

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

They'll supply as long as they make a profit. Literally no one reduces supply to zero in response to a reduction in the rate of increase in prices.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

@freddie_poser I think getting rid of foxes would probably be more likely to convince the community to the support the development than anything else.

[Ronan Lyons @ronanlyons]

How on earth did we end up in a situation where the Dublin editor of Ireland's 'newspaper of record' refers to new rental housing as 'the indestructible cockroach' of Ireland's housing sector with its 'spores' spreading into the suburbs? Shocking tone.
https://t.co/DEJTdnpX1A

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

"Levelling up"

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

@lloyd_rm @thatinterlace How do you infer that from the tweet? Wait so you think greenfield sites lower prices but brownfield sites dont? what, how, why?

Also if you actually thought moe social housing needed to be built youd support social housing developments in your local area, which you dont.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

@lloyd_rm @thatinterlace And somehow this mechanism somehow magicaly applies in Brighton while not existing in Surrey.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

@kevinf567 @lloyd_rm In a way, I wish luck to both sides.

[Brighton Yimby @BrightonYimby]

If you seriously believed that then why did you sign a motion demanding the deregulation of planning restrictions around London in 2017?

[Lloyd Russell-Moyle 🏳️‍🌈🏕️ @lloyd_rm]

@thatinterlace That’s not true I can show you many developments where it’s been got right with local intervention. What you want it to price yourself out of housing or rent forever with your “build anything” approach - that’s what we have done letting the market decide for too long.