Respect to the elder gentlemen with the big house. He's worked hard, raised his family and now he just wants to enjoy his home. He's living the dream and he in no way should feel guilty for that.
Agreed... and lets be honest, selling his house is not going to do anything. People facing housing shortages will never be able to afford that house anyway. Will probably go to a foreign investor who won't even live in it. At least this way, its lived in and being maintained.
What a load of misdirection, there are so many homes in london empty, but owned by people living in other countries, there is no housing crisis, theres just greed.
Orion S Fury same thing here in New York, Chinese and Arab billionaires buying up properties just to hide/launder money. Most of them never set foot in the properties. Meanwhile their driving the housing market unaffordable for the locals who lived their their whole lives.
@@SoulCaliburDeathCrie If people are starving then it's not a utopia. Whilst I don't advocate for any ism I definitely think socialism in the form of having safety nets and free basic needs met as standard should be encouraged. Capitalism is destroying the planet and the societal health and well being of many countries. It perpetuates inequality and a system that allows for a few to live in luxury while many more times the amount suffer needlessly.
Where I live on a council estate they nicked half the houses down to build new affordable housing, but instead of that they knocked the houses down and built detached luxury homes, that none of the locals can afford
0Apes0 because regardless of 'how hard he's worked' the fact is, him and his wife no longer need the space they have, whrereas two other families could do with it. It comes away from individual levels of 'deserving' and ownership, and having a fair more equal society.
and in which society is it fair to take someone's house if he has worked his whole life for it? Maybe he wants to give it to his sons or gandsons. The two families probably can get a bigger income and afford a better house than one single old man if they try.
I don’t really comment, however this really annoyed me. I live in London where the council have sold the majority of land to international property developers. They build big apartment complexes and sell/rent them at prices, working class people cannot afford. For example, a 1 bedroom apartment for £300,000. People can not afford these places and they cannot afford to move, and they rather be cramped in houses. If the council were more considerate of the people who live in London, issues like this wouldn’t happen. Oh and btw, these property developers are complaining these apartments they have built are empty but they refuse to decrease the price. So, it’s not like there aren’t places in London - it’s that people cannot afford them!
It's called......greed & bad management on behalf of the UK government.....they have NOT got the UK voters & tax PAYERS best interests at heart.......JUST THEIR OWN GREEDY FINGERS POCKETS & BANK ACCOUNTS INTERESTS AT HEART.........THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE
300k, where? I wish I find a ok house on that price. I am trying to buy a house here and can't find anything freehold below 500k. Its really sad to the point I am thinking about living London and UK.
How many sublets in Grefnal tragwdy but grefnall exposed illegals and fake immigrants living in council houses illegal sub lets fake documents grefnal was a disgrace . Media wnt publish the grefnal facts we cant identify the vicitns as some never exusted legalky
The problem is the government's London focused economy. Bring employment opportunities out of london and I'm sure the family of 4 paying £600 a month for one room would happily move to a three bed house if the jobs were available.
I almost broke my TV when that utterly ridiculous question was posed. Does the Queen of England feel guilty for all the underused homes she owns? The reporter should have been politely slapped for uttering such a socialistic piece of rubbish.
@@savannahrosedigitalillustr1946 Exactly. He paid for the house by working hard. People these days want OTHERS to work hard so they can take it all off them.
One of the richest country in the world and this government cant work with local councils across the UK to resolve this issue. shameless, sickening . The tale of two cities smart developments and decay housing not just in Liverpool but across most populate towns and cities across this land. Why interview people interview local councils and government ask them what they are going to do to resolve this issue. We all work hard and all desire to live comfortable.
That older fellow worked hard, and paid for every square inch of that lovely house, via the toiling of his own brow. Why in the hell should he feel guilty for now having more bedrooms and space that an outside critique might suggest he does not need. And who determines if he 'needs' it or not? The gall of some people amazes me! Kick the asses on every one that owns a car with four seats and four doors if they dont have a family of four! Is that gonna be next??
Exactly. A house takes about 2500 skilled man hours to make. If someone stacks shelves full time for a living them can buy a house easily then someone, somewhere is being taken advantage of.
The matieral point is that the next generation may work just as hard as him and never get that same opportunity, the ladder has been pulled up. A person might work hard all their life and use their money to buy and collect houses too which they don't need.
@@lw3646 The issue is that our generation seems inept. We have abandon the construction and blue collar works needed for building hoses in droves and moved over to a very heavy service sector mentality. Is it any wonder that the young can;t buy homes when they groom dogs, cut hair and shuffle paper for a living? How on earth can Beauty therapist ever pay a builder pre tax £14 an hour? Houses cost about £1000 per square meter to build and nothing can really change that.
@@mrdojob We can’t build the homes because the Government refuses to build social housing and developers cant build enough due to planning restrictions.
I own a home at 20 in the uk. But it's on wheels as it's the only thing I can afford by myself working a full time job. I could rent but I'll never be able to afford to buy somewhere. So I live in my van and saving for a nice plot of land.
This is unf ckingbelievable. Why would a house owner have to feel guilty for having a bigger home? Get that diabolical queen out of Buckingham Palace and give the Palace to the British people. Make it a beautiful housing complex.
I live in social housing. They don't come with flooring, some are do-upers. But it is do able. Some of these people expect there arses to wiped. Decoated and new flooring the houses can look really nice. Facebook, gumtree, chairty shops, upcycle. Pintrest is a wealth of ideas. Even youtube for DIY help. She could get some overalls some gloves on get the neighbours to clear up the the mess. Even the councils will come and collect things!
I mean really it doesnt take a genius to figure out that we need more AFFORDABLE housing thats the problem obviousLy in places where its needed NOT LIKE THAT PLACE IN SCOTLAND. no jobs there obviously no need for houses so thats not a crisis. Problem is in london they have these new builts way more expensive then other homes so whats the point. Also limiting foreign buyers would help but the govt don't want that do they.
The foreign buyers bring is a lot of money for the government also why would companies build affordable houses when the profit margins are low especially as the land is so expensive.
Flies are attracted by food, they lay their eggs on it, clean your flippin house, i have black mold in my bathroom and my bedroom, i clean the walls and i dont have flies apart from a few in summer which everyone has
Boc Four Jay Also no mention of all the morons who buy new iPhones, tattoos and designer shoes instead of paying their rent, and then end up homeless and a burden on the council.
I mean it seems like a perfect solution. as someone from the us. Those houses don't have to be demolished and people can have a dry and warm place to live.
My heart goes out to the older gentlemen who's the only one left on the block, he's been there in 27 years. What I don't understand is those who are currently struggling and continue to have more babies and expect Council housing to provide more room for them and they're expanded family.
Part of the problem is the UK planning system. It's a pain in the arse for developers to actually build houses as it can take them years to get permission for schemes. It has to be relaxed. Additionally, if the government reduced corporation and income tax for areas outside London, such as Cardiff, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow etc, then firms would move offices further north to take advantage of the tax incentives, taking people and jobs with them which will reduce the house prices down south
What about companies land-banking. Round here the gain planning permission, lay the foundations to lock in the planning and building regs and then sit on them for years?
its better that government gives building approval after lot of scrutiny. here in india corrupt departments give approval to rich builders under the table money and then builders not only do the messy planning for long term but they build poor quality houses because for these corporate houses profit margin is the inly thing matters. world has not changed with human civilizations growth. earlier kings used physical force to force common people to live as they dictated . and now corporates are forcing common people to live
This isn't the fault of the guy in the big house so he shouldn't feel guilty for taking up space. Although the line "Iv'e worked hard to get this" irritates me a little... isn't the teacher/nurse/police officer working hard too? We just have an unfair system that doesn't distribute wealth throughout the UK.
Building more houses will not solve the housing crisis. The "affordable homes" that have been built are for those who can afford to buy a house, and they are most certainly in the minority. Many of these new builds are bought to let, with some individuals owning several houses in the same new developement. Greed, greed, and more greed. People renting the new builds are paying more per month in rent than they would have to pay for a mortgage on the same house, which contributes to keeping homeownership just out of their grasp. The Tory government are doing their best to return Britain to the days of slum housing and no NHS, and completely trash the wonderful things that Labour did for the people of this country.
I have been on the waiting list for a house since 2015 im homeless and sofa surfing yet people who have been on the housing list a lot shorter than I have have been housed
The woman moaning about the rubbish i would have rung the council and got it shifted people expect others to do everything lost the ability to act on problems themselves as we live in a nanny state if somthing is dirty clean it
No Such thing as a housing shortage. Just too many people, Largest co producer cement. Also increased pollution of all types. Sewage production, traffic, water shortage, Hospitals, Doctors... Infastructure. France around same population and 5 times the land mass. 300k net immigration plus per year. About time we woke up and smell the coffee.
Answer: land value tax! Smaller homes would pay more than bigger(couze less people on land than in tall building) that would lead to building taller buildings with more apartmants
"Why would I feel guilty for working hard" - Most working class people work hard all their lives and remain stuck in small houses. This old fella's not richer because he worked harder, it's cause he's exploited the working class - those who do work hard.
That Scottish man who lives in the last terrace house made me want to give him a hug, he must be so lonely. The man with a big house shouldn’t feel anything, the area he’s in doesn’t have enough demand so the issue isn’t in his area but in Liverpool and London. The densely populated areas need to build up. We don’t have to spread out.
Perhaps the sky news reporter can give he’s house up then I’m sure he’s on a fat salary since he’s so eager to imply that he should give up he’s house. 🏡
The title is misleading. In other countries people already knew that there are shrinking regions, where infrastructure is getting too expensive too keep and housing is more than enough. That doesn't change the fact that building a lot more homes in and around London would help to improve the situation there. Trying to make other regions more attractive for businesses can help in the long run, but is very hard to achieve, because attractive cities keep getting more and more of the economic pie.
A lot of what people are saying here in the comments might be true, but nobody mentions the fact that globalization is also a big factor in this crisis. Many people are moving to the big cities, leaving their hometown behind - this creates a demand for housing in big cities and leave homes empty in the country side. It's not a UK problem, it's a global problem - the question is, should big cities grow rapidly or should we try to stop globalization?
The country will be a concrete jungle in the next 20years. There will be no green belt left because people want to own a home, sad world we live in when we take beautiful countryside and green belt away for profit
I don’t think the older man should feel guilty about anything. He worked for his money and now he’s enjoying it. No shame in that. AND his taxes pay for social services so he really has no reason to feel guilty. Plenty of room for his grandkids to sleepover 🤷🏽♀️
Why are all these immigrants coming to the UK to live in these tiny crowded rooms rather than live in their own country. How bad was it for them to think living in one room with a family is better than where they were before. Theres alot to this story that will take too long to report here. Not entirely sure why the main focus people in the comments is to praise the old rich man and not question the hell these other families are going through or have been through in their old country and why they feel better living in such horrid conditions.
Because for example a Pole can work in the UK for just five years, live in a smallish room for that time, and save enough money to go back home and BUY a house OUTRIGHT. Obviously if we Brits could live in a room in Poland and work for just 5 years and come back to Blighty and buy a house, there would be 10 million of us there and the Polish would say how hard-working and humble British migrants are. But that ain't gonna happen, because the EU isn't a level playing field.
About 11% of UK homes - 2 or more beds - are inhabited by people who are old and single. A Government with a brain would look at opportunities for them to WANT to move and downsize.
There is not anywhere near enough social housing, and no matter that people will say this isn't the case , fact is too many immigrants have caused this. People who have lived for generations here are pushed at back of queues told they are not priority , and top of the list are asylum seekers. I was even told by my housing association that asylum seekers are top of the list. This is wrong and we need to address immigration to solve the lack of affordable housing.
Far more shocking than the large number of people sharing some small residences is the fact that cops are allowed to break into their homes as shown in this video.
The government insists on enforcing a central building solution of build build build based on clever desk statisticians and technology. The problems would be far easier solved to give each local authority autonomy to make decisions on new builds and investment. Yes some areas may need thousands of new homes, others need investment to refurbish existing stock but go back to basics and let each council plan for their own area and just maybe the right levels of housing could be achieved for all
When they are just handed a house they should just be happy. Who I do feel for is the people who work hard and pay their own rent and bills that still can’t afford to rent their own place
The system in the uk is pathetic! Commit a crime and end up in prison! When released as homeless get housing priority! These people are the dregs of society and the government supports them both in prison and when released! Would all the knocked-off goods be sold to politicians at bargain price? This country going down hill fast!!!!
It's simple. Not enough houses are being built. People who already have homes which were once built on greenfield sites like to prevent builders from building other people's homes on greenfield sites. Too many immigrants. The Baby boomer generation did very well, they could easily get onto the property ladder, saw their salaries rise ~6x in 20 years, saw their homes rise ~7x in value in 30 years. Paid off their mortgages relatively young and now have enough money to buy second homes to rent out to Millennials who have seen their salaries rise just 20% in 10 years, whilst watching house prices rise 7% a year for the past 10 years, which is pretty much impossible to get ahead of. In the South East this would mean saving £10,000 a year just to keep up with the price increases of a 2 bedroom house.
Brexit is an hilarious farce, immigration levels won’t change but instead of manual workers coming from Spain or Poland they are coming from Pakistan and Bangladesh. We need 300k young people a year to take care of our ageing baby boomers
andrew300169 No, we just need to properly train our existing population and break free of this exploitative ponzi-style capitalism model that only serves to increase the profits of corporate giants that pay no tax anyway. Immigrants are only net contributors to the UK economy when they earn above £35,000: www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/12/eu-workers-deported-earning-less-35000-employees-americans-australians. How many of the 4 million + legal migrants who've come here in the last 15 years would fit that bill?
Henry Craven as basically every independent assessment shows immigrants from the EU are net contributors, it’s not even rocket science, they have expensive education abroad, are young and healthy and go home when they get older, unless they have married a British citizens. Training is not even the issue, we have virtually full employment, the issue is we have an ageing population and need more younger people to work in care homes, pick the fields, package in warehouses be engineers, teachers, the country needs them to function. The EU had done more to fight big business than the UK gov which has often been a blocker
There are many reasons for this problem. People owning multiple properties either buy to let or third fourth homeowners. Alternative living is the only solution to this mass problem
We are being swamped with 300,000 net new people a year.. But that doesn't tell the whole story.. It's mostly Brits buggering off with their skills, savings or pensions and it's mostly destitute peasants from eastern Europe flooding in.
Sam Smith Exactly! That 300,000 is more like 400,000 coming in from god knows where, 100,000 brits who have had enough leaving. I'm an ethnic minority in my London borough now, and like more of my white British neighbours long gone am selling up to move to the country. The place is spiralling downhill and worse by the year. A once pleasant area is turning into a ghetto with flytipping, street drinking, low level crime and relentless noise. Only one in ten pupils at the local school is white British. 75% don't speak English as a first language, or at all.
UK has declining native population, but the population and thus demand for housing continues to increase... Why? Immigration. Supply and demand economics drive a significant portion of the housing market, with not enough houses and too many people the price of housing increases drastically.
The building quality is so bad. Don't they have any laws against this. The contractors should be sued! Poor things. This is wrong. Period.! They should have a better standard of building homes.❤️
The man shouldn't feel guilty, but the question highlights that we have an issue. We need space, and these houses are totally inefficient when it comes to that.
It’s happening in America more so than there. Our problem is greed. Investors are buying up older homes and apartments turning them into luxury living facilities. My wealthy new neighborhood has large new homes that empty for the past 3 years. LLC’s are buying up the properties and letting them sit as they begin to immediately appreciate in value. An average buyer cannot compete in this market. It should be illegal. Affordable housing is a no go in Florida. DeSantis isn’t addressing the issue at all.
Some of my family live in even bigger houses well its nothing the millinaire freinds their house could fit 25 famillies by UK space standards I mean their bathroom is bigger than the all entire upper part of the one I m in 3bed and then 4x maybe more.
W bought our council house and feel i have to right too. I had council flat for 12 years finally got my house and bought it as soon as we could. Husband n i both work pay for everything.
@Claire Sutton the original intent was that people who were excepted into council homes were allowed to stay as long as they wanted with the proviso that they followed pretty strict guidelines. Of course, at the time - it was still a selection of a certain class of the working class etc. I don't have a problem so much with the sale but rather the resale and huge windfall that many - especially in London have made.
Lukedishwasher its because theyve come without jobs expecting to just walk into a better life, its a lie theyve been spun, its no better here for them whatsoever
If anyone worked to buy their home they should be proud, but there are a lot of extremely hard working people still in poverty because their bills often exceed 60% of their earnings
@@theginjaninja132 I think 55 hour weeks on minimum wage should come to a lot less than 60%. If it still is then clearly those people shouldn't be living in the area. Building a house is a full time job for an entire year for a skilled builder. If someone is working a standard 38 hour week on minimum wage then they need to save up every single penny of their pay for at least two years to even remotely stand a chance of paying the builder. That's excluding the cost of materials (bricks seriously cost 50 pence each) and land. The reality is that even doubling minimum wage, an unskilled worker will always be paid less per hour than a skilled worker and they'll ALWAYS struggle to pay for the fruits of skilled work. There really isn't much we can do about it.
The so-called property ladder is the intractable problem: - certainly a big part of it. The property ladder- the belief in inevitability of price growth - is accepted uncritically all the time. It is built into the thinking of financiers. Yet it could actually belong to a passing era.
Most leaders are not focusing on the housing crisis they need more help centre’s there are more homeless in Uk than any where in the world the housing system should be corrected
We need council houses, loads of them. They can find the money to build them if they want. They built thousands of estates after WW2 when the country was bankrupt, there's always a way.
Yeah but loads of those council estates soon became slums and had to be demolished!
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man I had no clue it was that bad out their in the u.k. here in the states we got a huge housing issue. but I never would have guessed it was that bad in the u.k.
Respect to the elder gentlemen with the big house. He's worked hard, raised his family and now he just wants to enjoy his home. He's living the dream and he in no way should feel guilty for that.
he shouldn't feel guilty - but equally he shouldn't get free bus pass, winter fuel payments and pay for his own healthcare.
+carefulcliffdriver wtf is his his taxs for then
@@Jennyeq he'll have paid far more into the system than those things cost
Agreed... and lets be honest, selling his house is not going to do anything. People facing housing shortages will never be able to afford that house anyway. Will probably go to a foreign investor who won't even live in it. At least this way, its lived in and being maintained.
Totally agree! why should he feel guilty for having a nice house? nothing worse than being crammed into a poky little place?
What a load of misdirection, there are so many homes in london empty, but owned by people living in other countries, there is no housing crisis, theres just greed.
Orion S Fury same thing here in New York, Chinese and Arab billionaires buying up properties just to hide/launder money. Most of them never set foot in the properties. Meanwhile their driving the housing market unaffordable for the locals who lived their their whole lives.
In the USA there are 3.5 Million people are homeless. In the USA there are 18.5 Million Empty Houses. That's Capitalism Folks.
majorMcpharter and socialism results in a utopia where 400 million people starve
@@SoulCaliburDeathCrie If people are starving then it's not a utopia. Whilst I don't advocate for any ism I definitely think socialism in the form of having safety nets and free basic needs met as standard should be encouraged. Capitalism is destroying the planet and the societal health and well being of many countries. It perpetuates inequality and a system that allows for a few to live in luxury while many more times the amount suffer needlessly.
budsio definitely agree inequality is generated but it's not a bad thing. We are not supposed to be equal
Where I live on a council estate they nicked half the houses down to build new affordable housing, but instead of that they knocked the houses down and built detached luxury homes, that none of the locals can afford
Welcome to the tory run uk liars communists and only care about them self
Madness
Sounds about right
Why would that man feel guilty if he owns the house?
0Apes0 exactly 😂
Quite.
0Apes0 because regardless of 'how hard he's worked' the fact is, him and his wife no longer need the space they have, whrereas two other families could do with it. It comes away from individual levels of 'deserving' and ownership, and having a fair more equal society.
and in which society is it fair to take someone's house if he has worked his whole life for it? Maybe he wants to give it to his sons or gandsons. The two families probably can get a bigger income and afford a better house than one single old man if they try.
@@throughthewoods416 Fortunately we arnt communists living in hellish blocks of flats.
I don’t really comment, however this really annoyed me.
I live in London where the council have sold the majority of land to international property developers. They build big apartment complexes and sell/rent them at prices, working class people cannot afford. For example, a 1 bedroom apartment for £300,000.
People can not afford these places and they cannot afford to move, and they rather be cramped in houses. If the council were more considerate of the people who live in London, issues like this wouldn’t happen.
Oh and btw, these property developers are complaining these apartments they have built are empty but they refuse to decrease the price. So, it’s not like there aren’t places in London - it’s that people cannot afford them!
Agreed. Went to visit London and 1 bed flat was £1,500 a week...i was shocked
It's called......greed & bad management on behalf of the UK government.....they have NOT got the UK voters & tax PAYERS best interests at heart.......JUST THEIR OWN GREEDY FINGERS POCKETS & BANK ACCOUNTS INTERESTS AT HEART.........THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE
300k, where? I wish I find a ok house on that price. I am trying to buy a house here and can't find anything freehold below 500k. Its really sad to the point I am thinking about living London and UK.
it's the only way those councils get any money as they are frequently underfunded by the tory government
How many sublets in Grefnal tragwdy but grefnall exposed illegals and fake immigrants living in council houses illegal sub lets fake documents grefnal was a disgrace . Media wnt publish the grefnal facts we cant identify the vicitns as some never exusted legalky
The lady in livapool moaning about al the flys should try cleaning her kitchen, that is the likely cause
mr Johnson Agreed. The muck around the sink should be where she starts.
mr Johnson Paula the lady from Liverpool needs to work and pay for her housing instead of relying social housing.
The problem is the government's London focused economy. Bring employment opportunities out of london and I'm sure the family of 4 paying £600 a month for one room would happily move to a three bed house if the jobs were available.
That's because the rest of the country is a net loss. London is basically paying for everything.
@@tdreamgmail Says who?
did he really ask the man if he feels guilty for living in a decent house?
No he asked him if he felt guilty that he lives in a 5 bedroom house when there's homeless p3ople around haha. Still a stupid question tho haha
I bet the reporter’s house is much finer and grand than that guy’s house. No mention of his guilt?
I almost broke my TV when that utterly ridiculous question was posed. Does the Queen of England feel guilty for all the underused homes she owns?
The reporter should have been politely slapped for uttering such a socialistic piece of rubbish.
Noone who has good standards of living should be made to feel guilty about not living in a slum
@@savannahrosedigitalillustr1946 Exactly. He paid for the house by working hard. People these days want OTHERS to work hard so they can take it all off them.
One of the richest country in the world and this government cant work with local councils across the UK to resolve this issue. shameless, sickening .
The tale of two cities smart developments and decay housing not just in Liverpool but across most populate towns and cities across this land. Why interview people interview local councils and government ask them what they are going to do to resolve this issue.
We all work hard and all desire to live comfortable.
lynda Thackrey because national wealth only relates to the elite.
Look at India millions of people live in slums yet the country will be number 3.
Life was like this in the Victorian age dangerous overcrowding, poor sanitation, lack of basic facilities
....and rats. 😳
That older fellow worked hard, and paid for every square inch of that lovely house, via the toiling of his own brow. Why in the hell should he feel guilty for now having more bedrooms and space that an outside critique might suggest he does not need. And who determines if he 'needs' it or not?
The gall of some people amazes me!
Kick the asses on every one that owns a car with four seats and four doors if they dont have a family of four! Is that gonna be next??
Exactly. A house takes about 2500 skilled man hours to make. If someone stacks shelves full time for a living them can buy a house easily then someone, somewhere is being taken advantage of.
@@mrdojob so why haven't building techniques improved? Or planning permission allow cheaper material etc. It's a designed bubble
The matieral point is that the next generation may work just as hard as him and never get that same opportunity, the ladder has been pulled up. A person might work hard all their life and use their money to buy and collect houses too which they don't need.
@@lw3646 The issue is that our generation seems inept. We have abandon the construction and blue collar works needed for building hoses in droves and moved over to a very heavy service sector mentality.
Is it any wonder that the young can;t buy homes when they groom dogs, cut hair and shuffle paper for a living?
How on earth can Beauty therapist ever pay a builder pre tax £14 an hour? Houses cost about £1000 per square meter to build and nothing can really change that.
@@mrdojob We can’t build the homes because the Government refuses to build social housing and developers cant build enough due to planning restrictions.
Why do I get the feeling that being poor in Southern Europe is more fun than being poor in England?
More fun???????
Pressure? Living cost!
Better weather, food, people. No feudalism or monarchical system of government. A working constitution. A few reasons there....
It's obviously not, hence Romanians don't want to go home.
@@TomBartram-b1c true although that's classed as eastern Europe
I own a home at 20 in the uk. But it's on wheels as it's the only thing I can afford by myself working a full time job. I could rent but I'll never be able to afford to buy somewhere. So I live in my van and saving for a nice plot of land.
The housing crisis will be solved by more homes; the right homes in the right places. To think otherwise it preposterous.
Especially in London, a lack of affordable homes IS the issue, to insinuate otherwise is disingenuous.
The housing issue will be resolved with less people.
They need to stop investment companies buying properties
Respect to the man for working hard since 15
This is unf ckingbelievable.
Why would a house owner have to feel guilty for having a bigger home?
Get that diabolical queen out of Buckingham Palace and give the Palace to the British people. Make it a beautiful housing complex.
Get the government out of parliament because they are a joke and convert it into housing qaurters
Lol
I live in social housing. They don't come with flooring, some are do-upers. But it is do able. Some of these people expect there arses to wiped.
Decoated and new flooring the houses can look really nice. Facebook, gumtree, chairty shops, upcycle. Pintrest is a wealth of ideas. Even youtube for DIY help.
She could get some overalls some gloves on get the neighbours to clear up the the mess. Even the councils will come and collect things!
Interesting its okay for the council to put several people in overcrowded place but if someone else dose its a crime?
Working hard and raising your family in your house of choice is NOT a reason to feel guilty.
But when somebody else is working just as hard and doesn't have the luck to have a choice or a good income it's their own fault, isn't it? Lousy....
@@annemariecandyflip6531 something tells me these people aren’t in the same field as that man. Oranges to apples.
That single mother saying she’s “entitled”. No love sorry nobody is entitled to anything if they don’t put the effort in.
my thoughts exactly.
Lorna Marie the welfare system will collapse sooner then we think those scroungers will see a revolution and the wealthy people will leave
Oh so it's illegal for 16 people to live in a small house but NOT illegal to put people out on the streets?
I know what's more dangerous. 😩😩😩😩
Council houses that cant be put on the private market would help
I mean really it doesnt take a genius to figure out that we need more AFFORDABLE housing thats the problem obviousLy in places where its needed NOT LIKE THAT PLACE IN SCOTLAND. no jobs there obviously no need for houses so thats not a crisis. Problem is in london they have these new builts way more expensive then other homes so whats the point. Also limiting foreign buyers would help but the govt don't want that do they.
The foreign buyers bring is a lot of money for the government also why would companies build affordable houses when the profit margins are low especially as the land is so expensive.
@@ABanRocks then bring in some socialist reforms to make it more advantageous for the people born here.
Alex Roma affordable housing is coming fast as brexit crashes the housing market
Invest in jobs in ghost towns in places like Ayrshire and people will start to come back. Compare the regeneration of Cornwall
Well giving immigrants council houses & benefits will never cause housing crisis will it? 🤦🏼♂️🤪
I know. all these from Romania, why trying to escape from Romania like it was North Korea! If Romania is that bad, why was it allowed to join the EU!
2019 and I don't see British government solving this issue. Ridiculous.
Maybe the Corona Economy will fix it for them.
The old man with the nice house shouldnt feel guilty for working hard and doing right by himself and his family
A mixture of mass immigration and greedy politicians
Don't forget the rich foreigners. 🤣
@RS2002 what has that got to do with the housing crisis?
In my town a homeless migrent has more rights to the housing stock than the locals.been that way for years.
Gavin Mcinally that's about right
Kensington has 628 properties that have been unoccupied for over two years. Multiply that across the capital. The house are there .
Damn right. These fckers like to pretend they aren't, so who's making a killing out of it I wonder 🤔
Australia, Canada and New Zealand don't have these issues. Then again, those countries have proper control over their borders.
Why would he feel guilty
There are homes near where I live in Canada which have 6 bedrooms and are only used for holiday family get togethers.
Flies are attracted by food, they lay their eggs on it, clean your flippin house, i have black mold in my bathroom and my bedroom, i clean the walls and i dont have flies apart from a few in summer which everyone has
Can't believe they said this 4 years ago and it's even more true now
Send refugees and people from abroad that are on benefits home... War is done... thats it
TheOneOfCrows exactly!!!
The wars in the middle east and north africa is due to westren goverments. Who kill steal and manipulate elections for monotery gains.
It'll be solved by less people coming here!!!
No mention of greedy landlords
Boc Four Jay Also no mention of all the morons who buy new iPhones, tattoos and designer shoes instead of paying their rent, and then end up homeless and a burden on the council.
looks like the ghost towns of East Ayrshire would be perfect to re-home many of the refugees and immigrants to UK
I mean it seems like a perfect solution. as someone from the us. Those houses don't have to be demolished and people can have a dry and warm place to live.
Except there's no work in those places which is why everyone left. Refugees want to work and look after their families too.
My heart goes out to the older gentlemen who's the only one left on the block, he's been there in 27 years. What I don't understand is those who are currently struggling and continue to have more babies and expect Council housing to provide more room for them and they're expanded family.
Part of the problem is the UK planning system. It's a pain in the arse for developers to actually build houses as it can take them years to get permission for schemes. It has to be relaxed. Additionally, if the government reduced corporation and income tax for areas outside London, such as Cardiff, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow etc, then firms would move offices further north to take advantage of the tax incentives, taking people and jobs with them which will reduce the house prices down south
What about companies land-banking. Round here the gain planning permission, lay the foundations to lock in the planning and building regs and then sit on them for years?
its better that government gives building approval after lot of scrutiny. here in india corrupt departments give approval to rich builders under the table money and then builders not only do the messy planning for long term but they build poor quality houses because for these corporate houses profit margin is the inly thing matters.
world has not changed with human civilizations growth. earlier kings used physical force to force common people to live as they dictated . and now corporates are forcing common people to live
Problem of housing is,
To many peoples wanting FREE housing, without the need to work.
This isn't the fault of the guy in the big house so he shouldn't feel guilty for taking up space. Although the line "Iv'e worked hard to get this" irritates me a little... isn't the teacher/nurse/police officer working hard too? We just have an unfair system that doesn't distribute wealth throughout the UK.
Should've voted Labour lads
Money, money. It's a rich man world.
The thing is aswell the new homes they build are over expensive for people
Building more houses will not solve the housing crisis. The "affordable homes" that have been built are for those who can afford to buy a house, and they are most certainly in the minority. Many of these new builds are bought to let, with some individuals owning several houses in the same new developement. Greed, greed, and more greed. People renting the new builds are paying more per month in rent than they would have to pay for a mortgage on the same house, which contributes to keeping homeownership just out of their grasp. The Tory government are doing their best to return Britain to the days of slum housing and no NHS, and completely trash the wonderful things that Labour did for the people of this country.
I have been on the waiting list for a house since 2015 im homeless and sofa surfing yet people who have been on the housing list a lot shorter than I have have been housed
The woman moaning about the rubbish i would have rung the council and got it shifted people expect others to do everything lost the ability to act on problems themselves as we live in a nanny state if somthing is dirty clean it
1:47 this guy holding a baby, how can he bring someone into the world knowing they are going to live in such conditions?
Poor millennials can't afford their own houses. Most of them approaching 30 and still living at mom's place. Real sad.
Why do the people in the UK seem to think that it is the government's job to build houses?
No Such thing as a housing shortage.
Just too many people,
Largest co producer cement. Also increased pollution of all types. Sewage production, traffic, water shortage, Hospitals, Doctors... Infastructure.
France around same population and 5 times the land mass.
300k net immigration plus per year.
About time we woke up and smell the coffee.
This is an OVERPOPULATION crisis NOT a housing crisis. Why don't people get this??
wonder where the reporter lives and if he is giving up space in his home
Answer: land value tax! Smaller homes would pay more than bigger(couze less people on land than in tall building) that would lead to building taller buildings with more apartmants
building in england is not easy
"Why would I feel guilty for working hard" - Most working class people work hard all their lives and remain stuck in small houses. This old fella's not richer because he worked harder, it's cause he's exploited the working class - those who do work hard.
That Scottish man who lives in the last terrace house made me want to give him a hug, he must be so lonely.
The man with a big house shouldn’t feel anything, the area he’s in doesn’t have enough demand so the issue isn’t in his area but in Liverpool and London. The densely populated areas need to build up. We don’t have to spread out.
10 million immigrants in 20 years - that's a city the size of London, Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff put together
Perhaps the sky news reporter can give he’s house up then I’m sure he’s on a fat salary since he’s so eager to imply that he should give up he’s house. 🏡
LOL 😂
This has lot got to do with spread of. Corona virus lots people trying to live in one room because housing shortage and rotten damp housing
The title is misleading. In other countries people already knew that there are shrinking regions, where infrastructure is getting too expensive too keep and housing is more than enough. That doesn't change the fact that building a lot more homes in and around London would help to improve the situation there. Trying to make other regions more attractive for businesses can help in the long run, but is very hard to achieve, because attractive cities keep getting more and more of the economic pie.
A lot of what people are saying here in the comments might be true, but nobody mentions the fact that globalization is also a big factor in this crisis. Many people are moving to the big cities, leaving their hometown behind - this creates a demand for housing in big cities and leave homes empty in the country side. It's not a UK problem, it's a global problem - the question is, should big cities grow rapidly or should we try to stop globalization?
the problem is that a lot of people own 3+ houses. They're pushing prices up.
The country will be a concrete jungle in the next 20years. There will be no green belt left because people want to own a home, sad world we live in when we take beautiful countryside and green belt away for profit
stubru16 a concrete jungle will only happen in the cities and they’ll build up. No one wants to live in the country so it won’t be developed.
Amy Lorenzo they will build anywhere if there’s money to be made
Total rubbish!
I don’t think the older man should feel guilty about anything. He worked for his money and now he’s enjoying it. No shame in that. AND his taxes pay for social services so he really has no reason to feel guilty. Plenty of room for his grandkids to sleepover 🤷🏽♀️
Under occupation is an issue. But "bedroom tax" is evil. Both can't be valid points
Why are all these immigrants coming to the UK to live in these tiny crowded rooms rather than live in their own country. How bad was it for them to think living in one room with a family is better than where they were before. Theres alot to this story that will take too long to report here. Not entirely sure why the main focus people in the comments is to praise the old rich man and not question the hell these other families are going through or have been through in their old country and why they feel better living in such horrid conditions.
Because for example a Pole can work in the UK for just five years, live in a smallish room for that time, and save enough money to go back home and BUY a house OUTRIGHT. Obviously if we Brits could live in a room in Poland and work for just 5 years and come back to Blighty and buy a house, there would be 10 million of us there and the Polish would say how hard-working and humble British migrants are. But that ain't gonna happen, because the EU isn't a level playing field.
About 11% of UK homes - 2 or more beds - are inhabited by people who are old and single. A Government with a brain would look at opportunities for them to WANT to move and downsize.
There is not anywhere near enough social housing, and no matter that people will say this isn't the case , fact is too many immigrants have caused this. People who have lived for generations here are pushed at back of queues told they are not priority , and top of the list are asylum seekers. I was even told by my housing association that asylum seekers are top of the list. This is wrong and we need to address immigration to solve the lack of affordable housing.
I love the guys voice doing the interviews etc, the music is really good too and the information is amazing. Great doc thanks
i'm gonna rewatch london has fallen
Far more shocking than the large number of people sharing some small residences is the fact that cops are allowed to break into their homes as shown in this video.
The government insists on enforcing a central building solution of build build build based on clever desk statisticians and technology. The problems would be far easier solved to give each local authority autonomy to make decisions on new builds and investment. Yes some areas may need thousands of new homes, others need investment to refurbish existing stock but go back to basics and let each council plan for their own area and just maybe the right levels of housing could be achieved for all
Injustice, inequality of opportunities... and it seems to be an endless loop.
Build a million houses. Good as none at all if nobody can afford them.
When they are just handed a house they should just be happy. Who I do feel for is the people who work hard and pay their own rent and bills that still can’t afford to rent their own place
The system in the uk is pathetic!
Commit a crime and end up in prison!
When released as homeless get housing priority!
These people are the dregs of society and the government supports them both in prison and when released!
Would all the knocked-off goods be sold to politicians at bargain price?
This country going down hill fast!!!!
It's simple. Not enough houses are being built. People who already have homes which were once built on greenfield sites like to prevent builders from building other people's homes on greenfield sites. Too many immigrants. The Baby boomer generation did very well, they could easily get onto the property ladder, saw their salaries rise ~6x in 20 years, saw their homes rise ~7x in value in 30 years. Paid off their mortgages relatively young and now have enough money to buy second homes to rent out to Millennials who have seen their salaries rise just 20% in 10 years, whilst watching house prices rise 7% a year for the past 10 years, which is pretty much impossible to get ahead of. In the South East this would mean saving £10,000 a year just to keep up with the price increases of a 2 bedroom house.
That's why we voted for brexit , thanks for pointing it out
Brexit is an hilarious farce, immigration levels won’t change but instead of manual workers coming from Spain or Poland they are coming from Pakistan and Bangladesh. We need 300k young people a year to take care of our ageing baby boomers
andrew300169 No, we just need to properly train our existing population and break free of this exploitative ponzi-style capitalism model that only serves to increase the profits of corporate giants that pay no tax anyway. Immigrants are only net contributors to the UK economy when they earn above £35,000:
www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/12/eu-workers-deported-earning-less-35000-employees-americans-australians. How many of the 4 million + legal migrants who've come here in the last 15 years would fit that bill?
Henry Craven as basically every independent assessment shows immigrants from the EU are net contributors, it’s not even rocket science, they have expensive education abroad, are young and healthy and go home when they get older, unless they have married a British citizens. Training is not even the issue, we have virtually full employment, the issue is we have an ageing population and need more younger people to work in care homes, pick the fields, package in warehouses be engineers, teachers, the country needs them to function. The EU had done more to fight big business than the UK gov which has often been a blocker
There are many reasons for this problem. People owning multiple properties either buy to let or third fourth homeowners. Alternative living is the only solution to this mass problem
strange how someone can get a free house and then moan about it
We are being swamped with 300,000 net new people a year.. But that doesn't tell the whole story.. It's mostly Brits buggering off with their skills, savings or pensions and it's mostly destitute peasants from eastern Europe flooding in.
Sam Smith Exactly! That 300,000 is more like 400,000 coming in from god knows where, 100,000 brits who have had enough leaving. I'm an ethnic minority in my London borough now, and like more of my white British neighbours long gone am selling up to move to the country. The place is spiralling downhill and worse by the year. A once pleasant area is turning into a ghetto with flytipping, street drinking, low level crime and relentless noise. Only one in ten pupils at the local school is white British. 75% don't speak English as a first language, or at all.
GOD knows best
UK has declining native population, but the population and thus demand for housing continues to increase... Why? Immigration.
Supply and demand economics drive a significant portion of the housing market, with not enough houses and too many people the price of housing increases drastically.
The building quality is so bad. Don't they have any laws against this. The contractors should be sued! Poor things. This is wrong. Period.! They should have a better standard of building homes.❤️
Can anyone know the title of the surreal music (instrumental) right towards the end of the video?
I just want to hug the last man standing.
11:10 I don't know. Maybe wash your dishes?
Sky and there perfetic Multi culture intro.
Worst housing in europe damp cold houses should be knocked down years ago no wonder so many people getting sick every winter winding up in hospital
Does UK have a housing scheme for low income citizens?
Yes but it not amazing
The man shouldn't feel guilty, but the question highlights that we have an issue. We need space, and these houses are totally inefficient when it comes to that.
It’s happening in America more so than there. Our problem is greed. Investors are buying up older homes and apartments turning them into luxury living facilities. My wealthy new neighborhood has large new homes that empty for the past 3 years. LLC’s are buying up the properties and letting them sit as they begin to immediately appreciate in value. An average buyer cannot compete in this market. It should be illegal. Affordable housing is a no go in Florida. DeSantis isn’t addressing the issue at all.
Some of my family live in even bigger houses well its nothing the millinaire freinds their house could fit 25 famillies by UK space standards I mean their bathroom is bigger than the all entire upper part of the one I m in 3bed and then 4x maybe more.
Housing pricing got up wages staying the same is a problem in the states too. Wages when adjusted for inflation haven’t moved since the 70’s.
do not have babies if ur not prepared to stay together. im sick of single mother just leaving men that want to be a father.
W bought our council house and feel i have to right too. I had council flat for 12 years finally got my house and bought it as soon as we could. Husband n i both work pay for everything.
@Claire Sutton then half the population would be in them.
@Claire Sutton the original intent was that people who were excepted into council homes were allowed to stay as long as they wanted with the proviso that they followed pretty strict guidelines. Of course, at the time - it was still a selection of a certain class of the working class etc. I don't have a problem so much with the sale but rather the resale and huge windfall that many - especially in London have made.
A true HOME is owning not renting.
Strange how people in nice homes always believe they work harder than those in slums and are being rewarded. Very strange and very ignorant.
Lukedishwasher its because theyve come without jobs expecting to just walk into a better life, its a lie theyve been spun, its no better here for them whatsoever
Some of its luck some of it self investment.
Some do 70hrs a week some won’t leave the house.
Not really. Even someone on minimum wage can bring home 30k a year if they work A LOT of hours.
If anyone worked to buy their home they should be proud, but there are a lot of extremely hard working people still in poverty because their bills often exceed 60% of their earnings
@@theginjaninja132 I think 55 hour weeks on minimum wage should come to a lot less than 60%. If it still is then clearly those people shouldn't be living in the area. Building a house is a full time job for an entire year for a skilled builder. If someone is working a standard 38 hour week on minimum wage then they need to save up every single penny of their pay for at least two years to even remotely stand a chance of paying the builder. That's excluding the cost of materials (bricks seriously cost 50 pence each) and land. The reality is that even doubling minimum wage, an unskilled worker will always be paid less per hour than a skilled worker and they'll ALWAYS struggle to pay for the fruits of skilled work. There really isn't much we can do about it.
Well said Sky News! I uploaded a video on this very issue recently about how more houses will not resolve this problem
They should just knock down all the ugly houses and build new ones
The so-called property ladder is the intractable problem: - certainly a big part of it. The property ladder- the belief in inevitability of price growth - is accepted uncritically all the time. It is built into the thinking of financiers. Yet it could actually belong to a passing era.
Most leaders are not focusing on the housing crisis they need more help centre’s there are more homeless in Uk than any where in the world the housing system should be corrected
We need council houses, loads of them. They can find the money to build them if they want. They built thousands of estates after WW2 when the country was bankrupt, there's always a way.
Yeah but loads of those council estates soon became slums and had to be demolished!
man I had no clue it was that bad out their in the u.k. here in the states we got a huge housing issue. but I never would have guessed it was that bad in the u.k.