With 4.5 million people on housing waiting lists the bizarre house demolition programme called pathfinder rumbles on. This demolishes homes that need some renovation to provide new brownfield sites for millionaire developers to build new properties on.
Few of these new houses will be for social tenants being far too expensive for those on average salaries. In Gateshead new housing is around 10 times more than the average Tyneside salary.
Housing for hard working families depends on social landlords. Unfortunately councils aren't building so the pressure is on Housing Associations.
So as developers build houses they can't sell the Housing Associations are being asked to buy newly finished houses for rent. Unfortunately that's where the brakes come on. Housing Associations are saying that new build are not of high enough quality. New properties lack space and are badly finished. Up to 100,000 new empty unsold homes are lying unwanted by Housing Associations.
Instead of pathfinder money being used for mass demolition to make room for new build that even Housing Associations wont buy, pathfinder money ought to only be used for renovation.
Links
BBC News
0 comments:
Post a Comment