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... government will keep doing PR announcements of '£X billion for social housing', 'Y million new homes in England in 5 years' or 'biggest council house building programme since the war' & yet in reality house building will continue to fall. (22/end)
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... boost house building & buy government some time & credibility (& ensure the skills & capacity are there) for its long-term policies of easing planning, 'New Towns' & the SAHP to have a significant effect (if they ever do). Otherwise,... (21/n)
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Overall, this is probably very long & dull (I'm not suited to Twitter at all) but if government wants more homes it will have to address both the affordability & site viability constraints where it can have an effect in the short-term, to... (20/n)
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Government needs to stop making the problem worse & adding more & more costs to house building in the next 6 months before it addresses all the costs it has already added, prioritise its objectives & make trade-offs to get more homes. (19/n)
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My point isn't about getting rid of any or all these policies, but if government wants more homes, it needs to understand knock-on impacts, priorities & trade-offs. It cannot keep adding more & more costs onto house building & expect more homes. (18/n)
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The HBF reported in May that the cost of building a low-rise house has risen £76,000 in the last 5 years & £98,000 for in a high-rise development (the extra being due to the government's 2nd staircase requirement). (17/n)
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... government’s extra costs on house buildingare only going to increase further over the next 6 months. The Building Safety Levy starts on 1 October & the Future Homes & Buildings Standards start next March, adding more costs to house building. (16/n)
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However, the majority of the costs rises in house building that have increasingly make sites unviable comes from the long list of government's extra costs on house building &, furthermore,... (15/n)
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... construction products prices (on average) in July 2026 were 50% higher than in January 2020 & we are only starting to see the Middle East conflict impacts now, never mind September's oil & energy price rises. (14/n)
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Site viability is increasingly a problem, partly due to construction products cost risesfrom supply chain problems in 2021, oil, energy & commodity price spikes in 2022 & more recently the Middle East conflict. These mean that... (13/n)
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Neither of these policies would cost government or the taxpayer. But, government would still need to address the site viability problems to get more homes. Site viability is a far bigger than affordability in lower priced areas. (12/n)
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... you could have a Funding for Lending Scheme, as happened in 2012, whereby the Treasury could allow the Bank of England to lend to at a lower than the current Bank Rate for 2 years, only for mortgages for first-time buyers of new build. (11/n)
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... you would still need a policy to enable demand that addresses the affordability issue of mortgage rates/payments. So, again, for a 2-year period, just to enable housing demand until long-term government policies have an impact,... (10/n)
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... short-term (say 2-years) & then taper away after that to avoid cliff-edges in policy. A 2-year Help to Buy policy aimed at first-time buyers of new build may help on the deposit side, especially in more expensive parts of the country, but... (9/n)
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If you want to do government stimulus to enable housing & house building demand but are concerned spending taxpayer money, house price inflation effects &/or house builder profits etc. 5-10 years down the line then the stimulus needs to be... (8/n)
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Both need to be dealt with for house building to start to recover (or at least not fall further, with more skills & capacity lost), before government's long-term solutions (easing planning, 'New Towns' & the SAHP) have any significant effect. (7/n)
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The big house building problems are both on the demand & supply side. Affordability (both deposits & mortgage rates/payments) is the main issue in expensive areas whilst site viability is the key problem in more affordable areas. (6/n)
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