A really bad start to the day ...

[ToughButterCup]

"... Gove’s department hands back £1.9bn meant to tackle England’s housing crisis ..."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/12/gove-department-hands-back-19bn-meant-tackle-england-housing-crisis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Downloaded 12th July 2023.

 

Martin Hall of The Planning Law Blog fame was right. 300000 houses. 

 

Twats.

 

Off to find something to kick. Hard. Any rat will do.

[SteamyTea]

11 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

Gove’s department hands back £1.9bn

That is about 60 quid per current house.

Good on him, the Government lent me, interest free, £550 last year to pay my electricity bill.

 

£2bn is about £8k a home when it is spread over 250k homes.

Not a life changing amount.

Another way to look at it, is by region, which is what levelling up is all about.

So take a scummy area of Cornwall, and assume that 1000 homes will be build, average price £230k.  That is £230,000,000, so almost a 1/8^th of the budget used up, in one small part of, one sparsely populated area.

 

 

[Pocster]

Must admit I did laugh at this .

Not enough homes 

Here’s some money to build them 

They’ll be too expensive in the current climate 

 

It’s almost a joke isn’t it ! . I guess like all parties it’s a case of giving up trying to fix the housing problem.