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Affordable homes shortage revealed
3:15pm Friday 19th March 2010 in
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- By Matt Smith » Politics and business reporter
A MASSIVE shortage of affordable housing across Hampshire is today revealed by a housing charity.
Councils are failing to build enough affordable houses to meet the needs of their residents.
A housing league table, compiled by Shelter, shows the Isle of Wight and New Forest councils are delivering the lowest proportion of affordable houses in the county.
Winchester, the best performing council in Hampshire, has only just delivered a third of those needed in the city each year.
Meanwhile, Southampton City Council is struggling with a growing housing waiting list and needs to build 1,000 more affordable homes a year.
The survey comes as Labour councillors in Southampton have called for ruling Tories to press the next Government to develop a “significantly increased”
council house building programme.
Shelter’s chief executive Campbell Robb said: “These figures are extremely worrying. With over 15,500 households on the housing waiting list in Southampton, the council must work far harder to ensure more desperately needed affordable homes are provided if it ever hopes to meet the housing needs of the local population.
“Independent experts commissioned by the council say 1,391 new affordable homes need to be built each year in Southampton, but an average of only 410 have been delivered in the last year, leaving a shortfall of 981 homes per year.”
Local authorities are responsible for identifying the housing need in their area and ensuring enough affordable homes are built.
Mr Robb added: “Councils need to do more to deliver affordable homes but must also be supported by significant Government cash.”
Test Valley council’s housing boss councillor Sandra Hawke condemned Shelter as “irresponsible and unrealistic”
for failing to explain the situations behind the statistics.
Southampton’s housing boss Councillor Phil Williams said: “We take the issue of housing very seriously and are pushing for more to be done to help people at this difficult time.
“I passionately believe that we need to get the economy back on track, make home ownership more affordable and by implication improve the delivery and prioritisation of new affordable housing.
The council is pursuing all opportunities for funding.”
Comments(12)
Shoong
says...
3:41pm Fri 19 Mar 10
StEmmosfire wrote:Bang on.
It's not a housing shortage as such, more of a problem of an over crowded island. Too many people bleeding the country dry. Too many large families unable to afford themselves. I cant afford to have children, so I dont have any.
It's all very well building these houses, but they'll soon be filled with ever spawning chavs & those who they were intended for will miss out.
If you're white & single with no children in this country, you might as well be dead. Just without the tax breaks.
shilo
says...
4:14pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Shoong wrote:Quite agree, I should have been a single mother then I would have been given generous benefits, instead of the paltry job seekers pay of £66 per week to try and cover my rent of £530 per month, food, council tax, water bills and fuel bills due to forthcoming redundancy.
StEmmosfire wrote: It's not a housing shortage as such, more of a problem of an over crowded island. Too many people bleeding the country dry. Too many large families unable to afford themselves. I cant afford to have children, so I dont have any.Bang on. It's all very well building these houses, but they'll soon be filled with ever spawning chavs & those who they were intended for will miss out. If you're white & single with no children in this country, you might as well be dead. Just without the tax breaks.
Mr Ellis
says...
4:19pm Fri 19 Mar 10
It's the New Forest - a National Park. What are they meant to do about it? Kick out the ponies? Maybe we should turn the Forest into a new eco town - how would that go down?
freefinker
says...
6:05pm Fri 19 Mar 10
shilo wrote:Actually, our need for more and more homes is mainly caused by there being many more, but smaller, households.
Shoong wrote:Quite agree, I should have been a single mother then I would have been given generous benefits, instead of the paltry job seekers pay of £66 per week to try and cover my rent of £530 per month, food, council tax, water bills and fuel bills due to forthcoming redundancy.
StEmmosfire wrote: It's not a housing shortage as such, more of a problem of an over crowded island. Too many people bleeding the country dry. Too many large families unable to afford themselves. I cant afford to have children, so I dont have any.Bang on. It's all very well building these houses, but they'll soon be filled with ever spawning chavs & those who they were intended for will miss out. If you're white & single with no children in this country, you might as well be dead. Just without the tax breaks.
Whereas 50 years ago the population of the UK was not too much smaller than it is today, the size of the average household has shown a steady and pronounced decline.
There is more divorce, more single parents, more who choose to live alone and more young adults who can afford to leave the family home.
All this requires more units to live in.
Condor Man
says...
8:42pm Fri 19 Mar 10
southy
says...
10:15pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Condor Man wrote:the restrictions that was started by maggie back in the 80's. and also making it easyer for the wealthy to own more than 1 home. look at lord ***** ( with not say his name ) owns a manor plus a home's in london, cornwall, somerset, plus 2 homes in wales, ant 2 more in scotland and the ones he owns in europe and in the usa.
another problem is that the government put so many restrictions on building over the past decade that developers stopped building decent sized developments. Instead we have crappy infill sites which don't address the problem. Also, by relaxing rules on mortgages the government caused house prices to more then triple meaning fewer people can afford to buy. If people aspire to live in an 'affordable' home we have truly failed as a society.
Condor Man
says...
11:08pm Fri 19 Mar 10
southy wrote:there were only limits placed on the building of council housing. Huge private estates like Chartwell Green and Grange Park were built in the 80's. We needed more of these developments with a fair mix of properties to buy and rent (no more than 10%) rather than the draconian restrictions placed on developers by 2 Jags. No one in their right mind would want to rent all their lives when a property could be theirs in 25 years.
Condor Man wrote: another problem is that the government put so many restrictions on building over the past decade that developers stopped building decent sized developments. Instead we have crappy infill sites which don't address the problem. Also, by relaxing rules on mortgages the government caused house prices to more then triple meaning fewer people can afford to buy. If people aspire to live in an 'affordable' home we have truly failed as a society.the restrictions that was started by maggie back in the 80's. and also making it easyer for the wealthy to own more than 1 home. look at lord ***** ( with not say his name ) owns a manor plus a home's in london, cornwall, somerset, plus 2 homes in wales, ant 2 more in scotland and the ones he owns in europe and in the usa.
southy
says...
12:23am Sat 20 Mar 10
Condor Man wrote:what is needed is removal that draconian tory block on councils to build there own houses and to sale them at the right rate, we dont need any private estates they take up to much room for a person per room space that is really needed.
southy wrote:there were only limits placed on the building of council housing. Huge private estates like Chartwell Green and Grange Park were built in the 80's. We needed more of these developments with a fair mix of properties to buy and rent (no more than 10%) rather than the draconian restrictions placed on developers by 2 Jags. No one in their right mind would want to rent all their lives when a property could be theirs in 25 years.
Condor Man wrote: another problem is that the government put so many restrictions on building over the past decade that developers stopped building decent sized developments. Instead we have crappy infill sites which don't address the problem. Also, by relaxing rules on mortgages the government caused house prices to more then triple meaning fewer people can afford to buy. If people aspire to live in an 'affordable' home we have truly failed as a society.the restrictions that was started by maggie back in the 80's. and also making it easyer for the wealthy to own more than 1 home. look at lord ***** ( with not say his name ) owns a manor plus a home's in london, cornwall, somerset, plus 2 homes in wales, ant 2 more in scotland and the ones he owns in europe and in the usa.
own there own property in 25 years that only works if there is no recession where people stand to lose every thing, and while we have right wing policy in place theres no hope of there never going to be a recession again, in fact while we are under right wing politics recessions are only going to get deeper and longer and shorter time period between them till we hit a depression then return back to recession and its starts all over again, or have a major war worse than the last big one, then again that will not stop recession.
Derek of Dibden Purlieu
says...
12:50am Sat 20 Mar 10
southy wrote:Blah,blah,blah,blah,
Condor Man wrote:what is needed is removal that draconian tory block on councils to build there own houses and to sale them at the right rate, we dont need any private estates they take up to much room for a person per room space that is really needed.
southy wrote:there were only limits placed on the building of council housing. Huge private estates like Chartwell Green and Grange Park were built in the 80's. We needed more of these developments with a fair mix of properties to buy and rent (no more than 10%) rather than the draconian restrictions placed on developers by 2 Jags. No one in their right mind would want to rent all their lives when a property could be theirs in 25 years.
Condor Man wrote: another problem is that the government put so many restrictions on building over the past decade that developers stopped building decent sized developments. Instead we have crappy infill sites which don't address the problem. Also, by relaxing rules on mortgages the government caused house prices to more then triple meaning fewer people can afford to buy. If people aspire to live in an 'affordable' home we have truly failed as a society.the restrictions that was started by maggie back in the 80's. and also making it easyer for the wealthy to own more than 1 home. look at lord ***** ( with not say his name ) owns a manor plus a home's in london, cornwall, somerset, plus 2 homes in wales, ant 2 more in scotland and the ones he owns in europe and in the usa.
own there own property in 25 years that only works if there is no recession where people stand to lose every thing, and while we have right wing policy in place theres no hope of there never going to be a recession again, in fact while we are under right wing politics recessions are only going to get deeper and longer and shorter time period between them till we hit a depression then return back to recession and its starts all over again, or have a major war worse than the last big one, then again that will not stop recession.
blah, oh God I've heard all this rubbish so many times I could quote it without notes. Get a life and change the record.
freefinker
says...
1:18am Sat 20 Mar 10
.. are you not well?
or just feeling a little conciliatory today?
southy
says...
12:02pm Sat 20 Mar 10
freefinker wrote:ignore him he could not debate even if he tryed.
That's very tame Derek of DP
.. are you not well?
or just feeling a little conciliatory today?
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StEmmosfire says...
3:33pm Fri 19 Mar 10