Britain's Housing Crisis: What Went Wrong? - BBC series

[Easy_To_Assemble]

New series on BBC: 'Britain's Housing Crisis: What Went Wrong?'.

Part of me hates watching or reading stuff which tells us all what's wrong with something. Because it usually just ends up as impotent rage-bait, rarely translating to the problem being solved. But, this programme does provide a good summary of the roots of what's happened to our housing market in the last few decades. It manages to find the common threads that link decrepit social housing stock, with leaseholders being ripped off, and renters being fleeced.

Baffles me that Sunak and Starmer took a week to agree to work cross-party on the Israel/Palestine situation, but 20 years' worth of politicians couldn't bring themselves together to solve the housing crisis.

[Gurke and Hare]

Do they need a whole programme to say "Right to buy"?

[shoulders]

Sunak and Starmer took a week to agree to work cross-party on the Israel/Palestine situation

They don't disagree on that issue, and neither of them disagree on the housing crisis either beyond blaming whoever is in power for whatever is going wrong then doing nothing when it's their turn.

[shoulders]

Still, nice that the BBC have produced two programmes clearly critical of Thatcherite policies in such a short space of time.

If you go further back though, Labour's rushed approach to delivering new housing in the 60s and 70s has also fundamentally cost us. Those were intended to be long term investments but were totally cocked up and have provided inadequate housing to the poor up to the present day.

[Easy_To_Assemble]

Do they need a whole programme to say "Right to buy"?

The problem's more extensive than just that. It was also stuff like Brown giving the Bank of England independence to set interest rates, the building firms' eye watering profits, the whole leasehold scandal, and the whole building industry's red tape being cut so much, we ended up with Grenfell.

It's not just Thatcher. It's also every leader since. Total intertia and failure to grapple with the problem.

[gilbertharding]

Every comment I saw on twitter blamed 'unrestricted immigration' which made me dispair.