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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish ·
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Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England.

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Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England.

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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish ·
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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

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    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

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      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.

      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/social-housing-uk-labour-tories-2010-election-government-building-council-houses-a8406626.html

      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.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_State_for_Housing_and_Planning_(United_Kingdom)#List_of_ministers

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