Anglosphere countries are very bad at housing.
Source: https://cps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/How-Many-Homes-Does-the-UK-Need-.pdf
Notice that drop between 2010 and 2020. Fucking Tories.
Given this is total house building. So basically how willing or able private construction companies are to build.
I’d be interested to know exactly what the Tories did to discourage private building.
Personally I’d rather blame the development companies who have been openly accused of limiting building numbers. To increase profits value of properties they do build.
Hmm… Why would the party of private interests and profit result in a downturn in building and higher profits for private interests?
That’s a tough one.
I asked what they did to cause it. Not why it happened.
IE How did having the Tories in charge. Directly help building companies not build. That was not possible with labour in charge before 2010
How have the Conservatives done on key issues? Slow progress has been made on social housing. From 2013 to 2023, the number of social rented homes fell from 4.0 million to 3.8 million, according to an estimate by the UK parliament. By 2022/23, just 15% of new affordable homes were for social rent. Before 2011 it was over half. In the 13 years before the Conservatives came to power, 362,000 new socially rented homes were built. In the 13 years from 2010 to 2023, this fell to 171,000.
All this combines to create an acute housing shortage. The National Housing Federation estimates there are 4.2m households in England with unmet housing needs.
https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/tories-lost-election-result-political-obituary-legacy/
The number of social homes being built has fallen by almost 90 per cent since the Conservatives came to power in 2010, new official figures have revealed.
Just 1,409 of the lowest-cost homes were started in England in the 2017/18 financial year - down from 39,402 in 2009/10.
Not to mention a revolving door for housing minister, with 16 people being minister within a 14 year period. Almost as if they didn’t really give a shit about the position because many of them are landlords.
What are house prices in France like?
Median house price in France is €160,000 and in the UK it’s £297,000 ~ €350,000
Median salary in France is €23,280 and in the UK it’s £37,400 ~ €43,000
A house in France costs, on average, 6.87 times the average annual salary and in the UK it costs 8.14 times.
Caveat: all these numbers come from 2 minutes of googling figures so I do not vouch for their accuracy. This also doesn’t take into account the rental market or the availability of social housing just owner-occupier purchase price.
old and “full of character” (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.
compare that with Germany where a landlord has to replace the floors/kitchen/damn roof every 6/7 years, under the pretext of forced maintenance which they then use to jack up the rent based on the mandatory improvements.
I genuinely don’t know which is better
You might have mis-read my comment, what are their prices like, relative to ours?
old and “full of character” (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.
Basically a bit like our old terrace houses that are full of damp and way too small for modern life.
oh sorry – well cheaper than german houses that’s for sure.
Along the Rhine valley, they have a double whammy of Swiss being unable to buy houses in Switzerland, so they go buy them in Germany as buy-to-let, pricing out the Germans who can’t compete with Swiss salaries, and so the Germans go buy French houses which drives up their prices for the French.
I’m not answering your question at all am I lmao
I’m not answering your question at all am I lmao
Have you considered a career in politics?
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