22 July 2007

Affordable Housing Solution

flood defences failIt appears all the recent flooding across the country may have helped the Government find a solution to the problem of affordable housing. Just consider some recent headlines and join the dots:

  • Gordon Brown to build three million new homes by 2020
  • 70,000 affordable homes per year over the next three years
  • 89% of the proposed properties in the Thames Gateway develop-ment are in the flood plain
  • Flood risk could make 300,000 homes uninsurable
Well? Who's going to want to buy an uninsurable home on a flood plain? Those who can't afford to live anywhere safer, that's who.

1 comments:

genslub3 said...

Well britons are slowly becomming extinct by having fewer and fewer children. 1.5 child per woman thus you lose 25% per generation. Thus in 1 generation 25% of the houses will be empty.

ie Give it a few years and the housing situation will take care of itself.

Might have to cut back on immigration but I guess that isn't possible.