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  • @kevinlim3327
    @kevinlim3327 5 місяців тому +34

    You hear the Tories go on about making UK a Singapore-on-Thames. I’m from Singapore. Do you know what we have? Massive social housing projects, built to own but heavily subsidised, all good quality. Funny how they like to emulate the bits they like (low taxes, deregulation) but develop selective deafness with the bits that don’t seem very conservative

    • @Croz89
      @Croz89 5 місяців тому +1

      The problem is London is full of old protected buildings, some only a couple of storeys stall. If London wants to be like Singapore in terms of housing, it will have to throw out the listed building regulations and everything else and get the wrecking ball out. You can't be a forest of skyscrapers and apartment blocks and keep *all* your historic buildings. It's just not possible. Plus the sightline rules will have to be completely thrown out.

    • @m0o0n0i0r
      @m0o0n0i0r 5 місяців тому

      the want to make london the sign Singapore-on-Thames, and to hell with the rest of the UK

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 5 місяців тому +3

      There really aren't that many listed buildings...

    • @Croz89
      @Croz89 5 місяців тому +1

      @@dallysinghson5569 There are quite a lot in London though.

    • @Croz89
      @Croz89 5 місяців тому

      @@Tool683 Not in central London! You want to build skyscrapers in the suburbs and leave the city centre alone?

  • @barrylionel
    @barrylionel 5 місяців тому +7

    This man has a complete grasp of the problem and should be listened to. I would add that there will always be a section of the population who can’t or don’t want to buy their own house. Before Thatchers “right to buy”, if you were a low wage earner, a carer, cleaner, street sweeper or similar then there was an understanding that you could apply for, and eventually get, a council house - a decent place to live.
    That social contract has been broken and you can work hard on minimum wage and still face poor housing and associated deprivation. From this stems much of the societal problems that we are trying to solve in tandem, things like poor health, absenteeism from school, drug and alcohol use, criminality, the list goes on.

  • @grpgoulder7197
    @grpgoulder7197 5 місяців тому +12

    If the tenant receives housing benefit,then the council should inspect the dwelling be for funds are issued.this must help things

    • @TW-dj5zq
      @TW-dj5zq 5 місяців тому +2

      Thing is, they haven't been building any social housing themselves and so they are turning a blind eye as there isn't the supply. Millions more homes need to be built and restored.

    • @keithheaven7764
      @keithheaven7764 5 місяців тому +1

      The question is whether Local Authorities will ever have enough officers to make those inspections. Furthermore, the threat of (discounted?) compulsory purchase might be necessary to force recalcitrant landlords to make the dwellings habitable.

    • @m0o0n0i0r
      @m0o0n0i0r 5 місяців тому +1

      right, and what will the council do if the accomodation is ot up to scratch? they dont have enough housing stock to rehouse the tenant, so they will make the tenant homeless

    • @grpgoulder7197
      @grpgoulder7197 5 місяців тому

      @@m0o0n0i0r no the tenant will not be made homeless ,if it is a family they will be put in temporary accommodation

    • @m0o0n0i0r
      @m0o0n0i0r 5 місяців тому +1

      @@grpgoulder7197 oh right, thats turned out well. the video talks about kids having to move and their schooling is badly affected right at the begining...this would just exacerbate it. temporary accommodation can be a room in a hotel with a fixed booing limit which is happeneing already all over the country. here is a solution, the councils get forced to build council housing that cannot be sold on under right to buy. This would save the local authority a big housing benefits bill that only goes to hotels and private slum landlords.

  • @DeannaAllison
    @DeannaAllison 5 місяців тому +4

    Wow, Kwajo Tweneboa is so passionate and a great speaker. Kwajo, maybe you should consider going into Westminster politics at some point, as was mentioned towards the end of this video. You really know how to get your points across. I think you could make a great impact as an MP. I'm very glad that I saw this video.

  • @MrSebastianBlake
    @MrSebastianBlake 5 місяців тому +2

    Unfortunately the government has left this too late and 30yrs has proved they won’t do anything about it. The fact that they want to build social homes but don’t want to fund it directly and have private developers is a complete paradox so unfortunately the problem will still persist. (They’ll build it but it’s likely that they’ll be unaffordable to the many and could end up with first time buyer with cash) The reality is trying to build a social homes in the most expensive land in the world.(London) is not viable. ( I think they know this hence why they use immigrants as scapegoat for the problem) we need a law to prohibit council homes to be sold

  • @apemoon1731
    @apemoon1731 5 місяців тому +4

    We can't build houses quickly enough to even match nett migration, let alone catch up with the backlog.
    There have been tens of thousands of houses and flats built in and around my town in the last 15 years.
    Right now there are two huge housing estates and numerous apartment blocks being built.
    Its a case of supply and demand. No amount of mental gymnastics will change that.
    Then theres the issue of infrastructure..........

    • @robertbannocks6750
      @robertbannocks6750 4 місяці тому

      Therefore stop and re-migrate to the point we can house our people first.

  • @rsalt6015
    @rsalt6015 5 місяців тому +12

    The Tories forced local authorities to flog off council housing under the 'Right to buy' scheme (as did the Blair government who added housing designed for disabled residents).

    • @RichardEnglander
      @RichardEnglander 5 місяців тому

      Then Blair Brown government built fewer social houses in their entire government than Thatcher did in one year

    • @RichardEnglander
      @RichardEnglander 5 місяців тому

      Then the Tories and Labour put foreigners into our Social housing, almost half in London is inhabited by people who were born abroad.
      We have been sold-out

    • @m0o0n0i0r
      @m0o0n0i0r 5 місяців тому +2

      makes yuo wonder what would have happened if the banks were not bailed out in 2008, and they didnt do ZIRP and QE, perhaps prices would have come down and so people would have bought

    • @anthonybrown4874
      @anthonybrown4874 5 місяців тому +3

      Even if councils had been allowed and or encouraged to use council house sales receipts to invest in new housing g stock perhaps it would not be too bad.

  • @michaelfunnylaugher
    @michaelfunnylaugher 5 місяців тому +9

    Very important and informative !! 🙏🏽

  • @MaximilienRobespierre1
    @MaximilienRobespierre1 5 місяців тому +8

    Great interview 👍

  • @annaclarke7643
    @annaclarke7643 5 місяців тому +2

    It would be a lot cheaper to employ an army of INDEPENDENT building inspectors, to check the quality of the work and the authority to get it fixed. Without this happening we will just see more of the same rubbish being built.

  • @gosskamperis2016
    @gosskamperis2016 5 місяців тому +3

    As a tax payer, I'm ANGRY
    WHAT are they doing with my tax-money?

    • @kevinlim3327
      @kevinlim3327 5 місяців тому +3

      Mostly more pensioners. Pensioners cost the NHS 10x what a young working person costs. As the proportion of pensioners as a part of the population grows, more of the budget gets shunted to the NHS to provide worse results because even the increased funding cannot keep up with the ballooning costs. In the meantime we beggar Peter (social housing) to pay Paul (NHS)

  • @catherinemira75
    @catherinemira75 3 місяці тому

    The government isn't even mentioning capping rents.

  • @arthur1670
    @arthur1670 5 місяців тому +1

    15.6 billion spent on housing last year is a joke and waste of money….. how much would it actually cost if we owned it
    No landlords having to pay mortgage cost ect

  • @VolKNo0
    @VolKNo0 5 місяців тому +1

    A2 dominion is the worst offender, the worst landlord. I know many people that live in sub standard housing because of them ignoring the needs of tenants. They are criminals.

  • @crow22zero
    @crow22zero 5 місяців тому +2

    What a great intelligent and insightful conversation thank you guys!

  • @RichardEnglander
    @RichardEnglander 5 місяців тому +6

    Unbelievable, this ENTIRE CONVERSATION and not a single mention of unnatural population growth, 89a% of our population growth is due to immigration.
    We have a housing EMERGENCY. This issue can't be resolved by only focusing on supply. Over the last 25 years, we have seen more immigration than in the previous two thousand years, with around 8 million people coming to this island while the native birth rate remains below replacement levels. Without immigration, we would be facing empty houses.
    Thatcher sold social housing, but the Blair/Brown government built fewer social houses during their entire tenure than Thatcher built in a single year. This means we've been failed for 30 years due to insufficient house building and the influx of mass immigration. Additionally, our domestic housing market has been opened to international corporations, foreign investors, and individuals.
    According to the ONS, we have over one million illegal immigrants not on the books, likely many more. Massive overcrowding, hot-bedding, and beds in sheds are prevalent because people need somewhere to go, and we haven't built enough houses. This is one of the great hidden secrets of the housing EMERGENCY; it's much worse than people imagine.
    It's almost impossible for British people to find social housing. In London, where I lived for a decade, about 48% of social housing is inhabited by people born abroad. None of this is sustainable socially, culturally, economically, or environmentally. Simply building more houses won't solve the issue. To cope with the immigration from the last three years alone, we would need to build a new Birmingham, complete with sewage systems, electricity generation, fresh water, doctors, dentists, schools, and meaningful work.
    The problem is so large that most people aren't willing to face reality, and cognitive dissonance prevents them from acknowledging it. I hope you now understand why we have a housing EMERGENCY and how it is both a supply and demand problem that needs to be addressed.
    It's time to overcome cognitive dissonance, have a serious discussion, and deal with the harsh reality. We must stop unnatural population growth, deport illegals and visa overstayers, prioritize British people for social housing, and tell environmentalists to identify areas they are willing to develop into new towns and cities. They may not like it, but they too support mass immigration and refuse to address its impacts or assess its sustainability.
    Are you ready to have a mature and objective conversation, or will you delete my comments again and perpetuate the problem?

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 5 місяців тому

      Ahh yes blame the boat people then run scared with some conspiracy that your comment will be deleted-- a concern THAT people from ALL side of the spectrum complain about.
      Population is rising all over the place, immigration is also a Natural thang.
      The, you also have jobs concentrated in the south, London and wonder why housing is so expensive there while dirt cheap up north.
      Just keep blaming the boat folk.

  • @qenimeri2
    @qenimeri2 4 місяці тому

    Thank you so much for this information.

  • @fintamaria2429
    @fintamaria2429 5 місяців тому +4

    When Humans will Build Houses, as a human necessity. Not for Profits.Billions in Profits.. Poverty will be completely eradicated, a Couple will no longer work only for the profits of Organized Cartels on the backs of the Workers. These Landlord’s,who make their living from the suffering of the workers!!

  • @3d1e00
    @3d1e00 5 місяців тому +3

    Council housing will help, but at its core the problem isn't housing. Unfortunately the problem is the people. A lot of parents shouldn't be parents. As reeves is saying, if we cannot afford it we cannot do it. If you want a child you need to think about this.

    • @beanboiisback
      @beanboiisback 5 місяців тому +1

      What about once they’re born? Why should the child be punished because their parents can’t afford housing?

    • @3d1e00
      @3d1e00 5 місяців тому

      @@beanboiisback I agree, but what choices do we have? The cap will go and we will just see an ever increasing number of people relying on welfare. These people should not be doing that, how we resolve it is one of the biggest questions of our time. We are in serious financial peril, either working class get this or they are going to be really shocked when the middle classes stop paying.

    • @fabiennemitchell2371
      @fabiennemitchell2371 4 місяці тому

      Should only the rich have children?

  • @Scitch-et4vk
    @Scitch-et4vk 5 місяців тому +3

    Work for what you want !

  • @RobinDS-m1g
    @RobinDS-m1g 5 місяців тому +1

    where do you get your numbers from? there will be many more in the shadows not being counted.

  • @keithheaven7764
    @keithheaven7764 5 місяців тому +4

    No more Help to Buy nonsense, which reportedly inflated the prices of poorly built new housing and added to the risk of negative equity. The market has proven it is incapable of supplying adequate housing.
    Social housing should be built using modern architectural innovation which improves resilience to weather conditions.
    Planners should allow far greater freedom in how people create their own homes. If you own a plot of land, you should have the right to live even in a caravan or whatever.
    Of course, this would ultimately reduce some of the pressure on housing and therefore affect the profit element, which is driven by scarcity and exclusivity.

    • @hobbabobba7912
      @hobbabobba7912 5 місяців тому

      I see your point, but this situation was caused by the state, not the market. It is the state that restricts house building through the planning. It is central government that prevents local councils from building social housing.

  • @BorgTinderne
    @BorgTinderne 5 місяців тому +1

    Rayner has made her commitment to build a lot of social housing very clear. She has the brief to make it happen. I have not seen any mention of where the associated capital is meant to come from, I can only assume that this will become clear as details of this years Kings speech unfold.

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 5 місяців тому +7

    Id put a massive tax on anyone with more than one home.

    • @keithheaven7764
      @keithheaven7764 5 місяців тому

      Unless they are providing acceptable full time accommodation at a price the tenants are willing and freely able to afford. In time,
      I suggest housing as investment will become less of a thing. Especially when the pressure of demand eases through freeing up both cash and planning laws to allow social housing to grow.

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 5 місяців тому

      Why will it be less of a thing? It will only be this way with massive increase in house numbers

  • @anthonybrown4874
    @anthonybrown4874 5 місяців тому +1

    What did happen to receipts from council house sales?

    • @justanotherchannel4271
      @justanotherchannel4271 4 місяці тому

      Diverted to fund current spending so they didn’t need to raise council tax or other taxes.

  • @mikecohen2400
    @mikecohen2400 5 місяців тому

    Social housing is not the answer to the UK’s housing problem, home ownership is. But to have home ownership the UK must fix the broken home purchase financing problem, and the land use problem.
    Land use there is no shortage of land to build homes on in the UK, it is just off limits due to government policy, the new Labour government could open land up for home ownership.
    Home financing is the second key to ownership, the UK system has a high buy in to obtain a mortgage, and there interest rates are not stable, both of these are fixable with government backed 30 year fixed rate mortgages look at the U.S. model where government insured mortgages are extremely stable, that stability means a stable housing market.
    With land to build on, and stable low entry home mortgages, the market will take care of itself, the reason the UK system is in the bad shape it is in, is because of the lack of new built homes, and waiting for a social house is like putting a bandaid on a cancer, it will not work.
    No talk about housing can go forward without massive planning reform, first step is build by right, there is just too much government bureaucracy, and interference in the building process, out side of health, and safety.

    • @WanderingWarg
      @WanderingWarg 5 місяців тому +3

      Home ownership, in the form of right to buy and buy to let, is one of the main causes of the issues we have now.
      With inflated house prices, not everyone can afford to buy a house. Social housing is key.

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 5 місяців тому

      You're going to need social housing as your country has become so poor.

  • @Birko64
    @Birko64 5 місяців тому +1

    You can't reverse decades of under investment overnight. The gov or social housing groups should be allowed to borrow much more for public housing. Relying on the private sector alone will not fix things. Borrowing to build houses is non-inflationary and an investment in the future. The past policies of throwing vast amounts of gov money into first time buying schemes just fuelled demand and increased prices, whilst benefiting very few. Nobody gets criticised for taking out a mortgage to buy a house. Nobody would wait to save their whole life up to buy a house for cash so the idea that we can't afford to borrow to build public housing is not well founded. Build build build. The UK did this after 1945 when the country was destitute so can't see what the problem is now.

  • @isabelvellauni9443
    @isabelvellauni9443 5 місяців тому

    Excellent to hear this from Kwajo. Absolute trailblazer. Really hope we see change.

  • @123sumom
    @123sumom 5 місяців тому

    Amazing

  • @donaldauguston9740
    @donaldauguston9740 5 місяців тому

    This was wonderful. He was a very well spoken and honest presence. I really hope the Labor Party steps-up and Mr. Starmer can help resolve many of the "foundational" issues this young man spoke about. DA

  • @scottbaker2451
    @scottbaker2451 5 місяців тому

    Good to see the Labour Government taking some concrete steps to address the housing crisis (and crisis is the word) in the UK. Call me naive, however, but isn't who builds these properties, who owns them and what rents they are allowed to charge more important than supply and demand? What's to prevent 500k new homes simply being hoovered up by private landlords. thereby simply magnifying the structural problem that exists? How many of the 411 Labour MPs currently own properties that they let? I think people are asking the wrong questions about housing.

  • @RichardEnglander
    @RichardEnglander 5 місяців тому +1

    14:20 "Beverage Report" 😂 a beverage is a drink, I think you boys mean 'Nye Bevan', nobody with sound command of the English language would mess that up. How did this presenter get their job? DEI hire for sure.

  • @neil5184
    @neil5184 5 місяців тому +1

    my house had mould, I cleaned it...

    • @fabiennemitchell2371
      @fabiennemitchell2371 4 місяці тому

      Your mould was obviously observed at an early stage, the source identified and reachable. Ask builders about damp in the brickwork and its roots, for instance.

    • @nameundefinedname5307
      @nameundefinedname5307 4 місяці тому

      cool story bro.

  • @RichardEnglander
    @RichardEnglander 5 місяців тому

    14:20 dresses as he wants in Westminster because he has contempt for our institutions and culture. He should dress properly and show cultural respect, as we should when we go to other countries where they have their clothing norms.

  • @Lifewithoutmusicisamistake
    @Lifewithoutmusicisamistake 5 місяців тому

    There will always be a housing crisis, until you stop the 'Right to buy'.

  • @julieclonan2427
    @julieclonan2427 5 місяців тому +5

    Do you think Endless Immigration is helping?

    • @tropicaltrev1617
      @tropicaltrev1617 5 місяців тому +6

      Do you think your racism is helping?😊

    • @Lawrence4000-s3k
      @Lawrence4000-s3k 5 місяців тому +7

      @@tropicaltrev1617 Why is it racism when housing demand is clearly an issue as much as supply? I think in London quite a lot of new social housing tenancies are let to a person born overseas (in some boroughs it's very high). It's a legitimate question and simply calling someone racist for raising it hardly helps.

    • @Bookworm214-y3d
      @Bookworm214-y3d 5 місяців тому +2

      @@tropicaltrev1617 what is wrong with stating a fact>

    • @lighting7508
      @lighting7508 5 місяців тому

      @@Lawrence4000-s3k That's my first worry too! I have no doubt labour will build more houses, but will UK citizens get to live in them?

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 5 місяців тому

      Didn't you guys quit the EU because of immigration?
      Or was that just another excuse???

  • @Antonia-t3p
    @Antonia-t3p 5 місяців тому

    We have an immigration crisis , the shortage of good housing is simply one symptom of that

    • @kevinlim3327
      @kevinlim3327 5 місяців тому +3

      No it’s a symptom of not enough houses. Housing stock keeps falling because the NIMBYs get in the way of all construction. Google cost of building railways in France vs UK to get a sense of the sheer absurdity

    • @Antonia-t3p
      @Antonia-t3p 5 місяців тому

      @@kevinlim3327 the housing stock is not falling - we are not demolishing houses every year . We are every year adding to the houseing stock but not fast enough to keep up with mass immigration . Without those millions there would be no housing crisis

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 5 місяців тому

      You Brexited because of the immigration, blaming the EU.
      The you left and you still blame others XD

    • @Antonia-t3p
      @Antonia-t3p 5 місяців тому

      @@dallysinghson5569 we Brexited to take back control . The fact is that open border conservatives wanted cheap labour and high rents . While the Labour party are just incapable of discussing immigration and are trying to solve a syptom with out dealing with the cause

    • @MrSebastianBlake
      @MrSebastianBlake 5 місяців тому

      Even if all the immigrants left we would be in a housing crisis still.

  • @BRODI-vt5hy
    @BRODI-vt5hy 5 місяців тому +3

    We’re do immigrants crowd, cities were do the refugee welcomers complain about housing, cities. Theres plenty of housing in the country side lads and at 0% growth and 100% debt to gdp you can watch from a distance as uk turbo declines