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Wow, this thread just keeps on running.
Two things - when you allow uncontrolled immigration on such a scale that our population year on year increases by enough people to fill a city the size of Liverpool you should hardly be surprised that the strain put on resources such as welfare, housing,education and the nhs puts these resources as breaking point.
I give you the happy clappers and their idealogy, even Merkel has had to admit that there are areas of Germany that are no go for Germans now.
Second thing - almost all hose builders have to build in an element of affordable housing into their developments to get it through planning. And getting any development through planning is a huge and very expensive task which only ever pushes up the cost of the development and therefore the houses.
I know of one serial objector who has prevented Selby council building social housing just outside the town centre, and has also held up a development on the edge of York for seven years and it's still not been allowed to go ahead. Not on the principle of the development itself ( which has been passed by North Yorks Council 3 times), but on legal technicalities.This can only add to the cost of the development if it ever goes ahead.
The solution isn't just to say build more houses, the will is there, but there are very often too many obstacles put in the way.