Centinaia di appartamenti vuoti che gli sviluppatori affermano che riassumono la crisi abitativa del Regno Unito
https://news.sky.com/story/the-red-tape-keeping-these-flats-empty-and-threatening-labours-vital-new-homes-target-13423446
di topotaul
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We added 1.8 million people between 2021 and 2024. We built around 500 000 houses.
>There are 1,210 completed homes which cannot be occupied because of delays in the work of the government’s building safety regulator, Sky News can reveal.
>The safety inspection regime created in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, [**which claimed 72 lives**](https://news.sky.com/story/grenfell-inquiry-report-key-points-13209144), is “not fit for purpose”, according to those who depend on its work.
1200 of those houses not being ready for accommodation yet is not the problem.
I find it weird that the data shows housebuilding pretty steady over the decades, but my perception is, there was loads of new estates on the 70s and 80s (and earlier) then it practically dried up in the 90s (except for London docklands) until about 5 or 10 years ago, since when there seems to be an insane amount of building.
Is house building still our biggest source of overseas income? If it is, that would go some way to explaining why houses get built and sold with no thought for whether they’re any good or not.
Well, those flats anyway aren’t solving any UK housing crisis. Although I accept there is an issue.
But there’s also an attempt here for some developers to spin this as some kind of problem for the UK housing crisis in general.