Map · Why has housing become so expensive in this town?

Every room on this question built its own map; these are folded into one. The same claim raised in two rooms is one item, and each link shows how many rooms found it. Where rooms found opposite things, each finding stands, with how many of the rooms that judged the link found it.

1 link found by several rooms · 1 more where another room agrees — the same link in its own words, or reached by a path (blue, finely dashed) · 0 contested · 60 links in all.

found by two or more independent rooms one room another room agrees in its own words, or by a path only rooms that do not count rejected by most rooms that judged it a dispute between rooms

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Under a cause: in how many of the rooms that judged actions against it one of their actions reduces it. Green: at least one room found such an action; grey: none did; uncoloured: no room judged actions against it. The numbers are the actions, listed under the map.

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Why has housing become so expensive in this town?

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Why is housing unaffordable here?

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Why can working people no longer afford a home here?

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RAISED IN MORE THAN ONE ROOM · 10

Building anything takes years of permissions	3 rooms	on the map
Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners	3 rooms	on the map
Rents rise faster than wages every year	3 rooms	on the map
Nobody can afford to live where the work is	3 rooms	on the map
Councils cannot borrow to build at the scale needed	2 rooms	on the map
Housing benefit sets a floor under rents	2 rooms	not on the map: no link to it was certified
Nobody in my building knows their neighbours	2 rooms	on the map
Converting an office costs more than building new	2 rooms	on the map
Nobody in the planning office has ever built anything	2 rooms	not on the map: no link to it was certified
The word 'housing crisis' is used by people who own two	2 rooms	not on the map: no link to it was certified

WHAT THE ROOMS WOULD DO

Each room judged its own actions against its own root causes, at three quarters of its own votes. Nothing here is a vote across rooms: it counts, cause by cause, what each room found. A room appears once its Actions stage has closed. Each number on the map marks a root cause that action reduces.

The causes the most rooms raised, “Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners”, “Building anything takes years of permissions”, “Rents rise faster than wages every year” (3 rooms each), have no action against them in any room.

Reduced in 1 of 1 room:

Nobody in the council can read a build programme

① Permit small sites on a shorter route · Why has housing become so expensive in this town?

Nobody knows what the flat next door pays

② End the guarantor requirement for anyone in work · Why can working people no longer afford a home here?

The archaeology survey took nine months and found nothing

③ One regulator for one wall · Why has housing become so expensive in this town?

The bank wants pre-sales before it lends

③ One regulator for one wall · Why has housing become so expensive in this town?

The owner is a company in another country

④ A public register of who owns every rented home · Why can working people no longer afford a home here?

No room found an action that reduces these:

Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners · judged in 2 rooms
A single objection can delay a scheme by two years · judged in 1 room
Building anything takes years of permissions · judged in 1 room
Landlords price on what the market will bear, not on cost · judged in 1 room
Nobody enforces the standards that already exist · judged in 1 room
Nobody insures a small builder for a tall building · judged in 1 room
Rents are set by what the last desperate person agreed to · judged in 1 room
Rents rise faster than wages every year · judged in 1 room
Reporting a landlord takes a year and you have moved by then · judged in 1 room
The people worst affected are never in the room · judged in 1 room
We cannot compete for land against a firm that can wait · judged in 1 room

FOUND BY 2 ROOMS · 1

Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners

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Rents rise faster than wages every year

FOUND BY 1 ROOM · 59

A single objection can delay a scheme by two years	→	Building anything takes years of permissions
	→	Politicians are elected by owners, not by renters
	→	Converting an office costs more than building new
The owner is a company in another country	→	Nobody enforces the standards that already exist
	→	There is no register of who owns what
	→	You are asked for a guarantor who owns property
Children change school every time the tenancy ends	→	Nobody has ever asked us what would fix it
	→	Nobody in my building knows their neighbours
Landlords price on what the market will bear, not on cost	→	Rents rise faster than wages every year
	→	Converting an office costs more than building new
Nobody builds for people who do not have a deposit	→	Every consultee has a veto and none has a deadline
	→	Quality is what you get when someone stays for the whole job
Nobody knows what the flat next door pays	→	Building anything takes years of permissions
	→	Rents are set by what the last desperate person agreed to
Reporting a landlord takes a year and you have moved by then	→	Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners
	→	Rents rise faster than wages every year
The archaeology survey took nine months and found nothing	→	A permission takes longer than the money is available for
	→	We cannot compete for land against a firm that can wait
The bank wants pre-sales before it lends	→	Nobody insures a small builder for a tall building
	→	We cannot compete for land against a firm that can wait
Being evicted once makes the next tenancy harder to get	→	Nobody will rent to you without three months up front
Councils cannot borrow to build at the scale needed	→	Nobody can afford to live where the work is
Homelessness services are funded, prevention is not	→	Every year of delay is a year of someone's life
Nobody in the council can read a build programme	→	Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners
The land price already assumes the permission	→	Building anything takes years of permissions
The viability assessment is written by the developer	→	The affordable quota is negotiated away after approval
Building anything takes years of permissions	→	A small site is as expensive to permit as a large one
	→	The people worst affected are never in the room
	→	Rents rise faster than wages every year
Nobody enforces the standards that already exist	→	The flat is cold because the landlord pays no heating bill
	→	You are asked for a guarantor who owns property
Nobody insures a small builder for a tall building	→	We cannot compete for land against a firm that can wait
	→	Rents rise faster than wages every year
Rents are set by what the last desperate person agreed to	→	Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners
	→	Rents rise faster than wages every year
Two regulators disagree about the same wall	⇄	A small site is as expensive to permit as a large one
	→	There is no trade left that can do lime plaster
A permission takes longer than the money is available for	→	The lender's rules decide the flat layout, not the family
A small site is as expensive to permit as a large one	⇄	Two regulators disagree about the same wall
Bringing an old building back costs twice new build	→	Building anything takes years of permissions
The affordable quota is negotiated away after approval	→	Nobody can afford to live where the work is
There is no trade left that can do lime plaster	→	Bringing an old building back costs twice new build
The people worst affected are never in the room	→	Rents rise faster than wages every year
	→	Politicians are elected by owners, not by renters
We cannot compete for land against a firm that can wait	→	Rents rise faster than wages every year
	→	Nobody can afford to live where the work is
Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners	→	The last time this city built at scale it was after a war
Offices sit empty while flats are unaffordable	→	Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners
The city has no number for how many homes it needs	→	Offices sit empty while flats are unaffordable
The flat is cold because the landlord pays no heating bill	→	Nobody in my building knows their neighbours
The last time this city built at scale it was after a war	→	The city has no number for how many homes it needs
Rents rise faster than wages every year	→	Nobody can afford to live where the work is
	→	Renters move too often to vote here
	→	The people who decide have never been served a notice
	→	We are the majority here and have no seat anywhere
	→	Every year of delay is a year of someone's life
Renters move too often to vote here	→	Politicians are elected by owners, not by renters
Politicians are elected by owners, not by renters	→	Converting an office costs more than building new
	→	Every year of delay is a year of someone's life

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Building anything takes years of permissions → Rents rise faster than wages every year found in some rooms that judged it (1 of 2)