Questions tagged [housing]
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Is there a feasible route by which UK housing can be made more affordable without devastating the housebuilding sector and its employees?
This question is prompted by a comment on the radio today, in which it was stated that house prices in the UK are about 10x average earnings (compared to the historically safe ratio for a mortage of ...
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Why did local authorities in England and Wales stop building homes?
From the 1970s–1980s, UK government local authorities stopped building homes:
(Source: BBC News)
Or, with raw figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government spreadsheet, ...
