THE QUESTION
Why is housing unaffordable here?
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CLUSTER 1
Nobody counts how many homes are actually empty
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
0 votesdiscuss
The city has no number for how many homes it needs
12 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 2
Social housing stock was sold and never replaced
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
0 votesdiscuss
Councils cannot borrow to build at the scale needed
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
6 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 3
Landlords price on what the market will bear, not on cost
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
1 votesdiscuss
Materials and labour both cost what they did at peak
1 votesdiscuss
CLUSTER 4
The word 'affordable' means eighty per cent of a price nobody can pay
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
0 votesdiscuss
Nobody can afford to live where the work is
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
14 votesdiscuss
NOT CLUSTERED
The last time this city built at scale it was after a war
2 votesdiscuss
A single objection can delay a scheme by two years
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
5 votesdiscussing (1)
Housing benefit sets a floor under rents
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
0 votesdiscuss
Renters move too often to vote here
6 votesdiscuss
Infrastructure is promised and arrives a decade late
0 votesdiscussing (1)
Nobody in the planning office has ever built anything
1 votesdiscuss
Parking minimums use land that could be homes
0 votesdiscuss
Every scheme is judged on its own, never on the total
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
0 votesdiscuss
Every year of delay is a year of someone's life
2 votesdiscuss
Politicians are elected by owners, not by renters
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
12 votesdiscuss
Small builders cannot carry the cost of the permission process
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
0 votesdiscuss
The green belt is a line drawn in 1955 and never re-examined
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
0 votes
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discussWe measure planning approvals, not homes completed
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
0 votesdiscuss
Short lets pay more than a tenancy, so flats leave the market
1 votesdiscuss
Rents rise faster than wages every year
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
15 votesdiscuss
The bus does not reach the land that is cheap
0 votesdiscuss
Skilled trades left during the last downturn and did not come back
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
1 votesdiscuss
Converting an office costs more than building new
Meaning the recurring case, not one incident.
7 votesdiscuss
Land is bought to hold, not to build on
1 votesdiscuss
The people worst affected are never in the room
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
2 votesdiscuss
Homelessness services are funded, prevention is not
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
5 votesdiscuss
Building anything takes years of permissions
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
15 votesdiscuss
The affordable quota is negotiated away after approval
7 votesdiscuss
Three firms build most of what gets built here
1 votesdiscuss
A four-year term is shorter than a building
0 votesdiscuss
Nobody is responsible for housing outcomes, only for process
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
3 votesdiscuss
A deposit now takes a decade to save
0 votesdiscuss
Nobody has costed what the housing crisis does to the health service
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
3 votesdiscuss
Empty flats are worth more than let ones to some owners
14 votesdiscuss
The viability assessment is written by the developer
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The people who object to building already own here
0 votesdiscuss
Offices sit empty while flats are unaffordable
3 votesdiscuss
Grant funding arrives in one-year cycles, so nothing long is planned
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
0 votesdiscuss