Greater-London wrote:Fartsniffage wrote:Yeah, countryside is boring.
No, just people need to have houses. The populations growing, house prices are going up, rents are going up a solution would be to build more decent affordable housing with as much of it on brown field sights as possible. Regardless the UK has lots and lots of countryside going spare.
Here's the thing. Housing has to be a reasonable distance from centers of commerce. Building in the country side will not alleviate demand for housing in the centers of commerce. Because people still need to leave near where they work, and long commutes are a massive, hidden cost not only on the individual, but on the rest of society.
So we can either have unregulated rents driving millions to pauperization. Rent-control provides a band-aid that will at least ensure in the short term that people's housing cost does not skyrocket. But the only real solution is a return to the social provision of housing, a system that was unwisely dismantled by the Thatcher regime.