Yet they're happy to let the welfare bill balloon.
Our national security is being put at risk by a Labour Party which only seeks to retain power through buying votes. Working Brits footing the bill for all.
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@ReidChalker the overwhelming economic evidence shows us that building housing, including market rate housing, reduces rents---if you oppose building new housing you are hurting tenants. period. full stop.
arguing otherwise is the equivalent of climate denial at this point
Sarah: 'Blaming our housing crisis on immigration is absolutely wild to me.'
Robert: 'Do you not think an extra 10 million people coming into the UK is going to have an effect on housing?'
Sarah: [Confidence waning. Nervous scoff. Asks idiotic question.]
Robert: 'The more people you have in a country, the more houses you're going to need.'
Sarah:
We hear some real batshit crazy things from politicians these days, but congratulations Sarah Wakefield. This Green Party candidate claims on BBC Question Time that immigration plays no part on UK housing demand. FFS, are the Greens serious putting this one up for election???
Using the evidence from Auckland's upzoning, we infer that a 1% increase in housing stock reduces rents by 3.6%.
Rents fell by 21.6% and the housing stock increased by 6.9%, so the elasticity of rents to housing stock is ln(1-0.216)/ln(1+0.069) = -3.6.
Wandsworth Labour perfected the art of demanding towers to fund affordable housing - then refusing the towers required to pay for it.
https://t.co/pwIBw0f4xA
Wandsworth Labour perfected the art of demanding towers to fund affordable housing - then refusing the towers required to pay for it.
https://t.co/pwIBw0f4xA
“And who’s going to own them?”
Centre for Policy Studies’ @emmamrevell and political commentator @PowerSayeed debate whether live-out landlords should be banned to tackle economic inequality in the UK.
It was good to join the #politicslondon panel to discuss @SadiqKhan’s ten years as @MayorofLondon:
🏗️ Record numbers of affordable homes started across City Hall housing programmes, around 90,000 of which are complete.
🏡 Nearly 30,000 new council homes delivered or underway.