Lets Rethink Housing: Surely we can do something now? Without new laws? Lets Rethink Housing: Surely we can do something now? Without new laws? So let’s imagine this has gone well. We’ve got a solid idea. We’ve persuaded a government to back it. The legislation is being drafted. The machinery is grinding into life. Which means — realistically — we’re waiting. Not months. Years. And while all that process is happening, another question naturally pops up: Is there anything we could start doing now, using the laws and powers we already have?

Lets Rethink Housing: Surely we can do something now? Without new laws?
Say we’ve agreed on a better housing system.

The laws are coming.
The machinery is spinning up.

But while we’re waiting…
surely we can start doing something?

#RethinkHousing #UKHousing #PolicyMaking #HomesNotAssets

Lets Rethink Housing: Right — so what would this actually look like in practice? Right — so what would this actually look like in practice? What if we could unlock land, build homes, and offer investors a boring alternative to property — without confiscation, forced sales, or blowing up the housing market?

Lets Rethink Housing: Right — so what would this actually look like in practice?
We’ve talked about incentives.

So what would a real alternative actually look like?

Not theory.
Not slogans.
Just something that could work.

#UKHousing #RethinkHousing #HomesNotAssets #PublicPolicy

Lets Rethink Housing: So… who actually benefits when we don’t have enough housing So… who actually benefits when we don’t have enough housing? A conversational look at how housing shortages create quiet winners, hidden risks, and why fixing the system has become politically uncomfortable.

Housing shortages don’t happen forever without someone benefiting.

The uncomfortable question is who — and why that makes change so hard.

#HomesNotAssets #UKHousingCrisis #RethinkHousing #Housing #UKLife #Politics #Economics #CostOfLiving

Lets Rethink Housing: Should habitation be linked with speculation? Should homes really be treated like something to bet on? A conversational look at how speculation quietly reshaped UK housing — and the contradiction at the heart of treating homes as investments.

We didn’t set out to speculate on housing.

We wanted somewhere to live. Somewhere for our family.

So when did homes start feeling like something to bet on?

#UKHousing #HomesNotAssets #HousingCrisis #RethinkHousing

Lets Rethink Housing: Why do builders and investors seem to be dragging their feet? Why does so much land sit empty while housing need keeps growing? A conversational look at why waiting, holding, and delaying have become the sensible choice in UK housing — and what that means for getting unstuck.

Vacant land. Long waiting lists. Rising prices.

Maybe the question isn’t why isn’t anyone building?

Maybe it’s why waiting has become the sensible choice.

#UKHousing #HousingCrisis #HomesNotAssets #RethinkHousing

Lets Rethink Housing: When did we stop treating a house as a home? When did we stop treating a house as a home? A conversational look at how UK housing quietly shifted from somewhere to live into something to invest in — and why that change still shapes everything that followed.

We didn’t vote on it.
We didn’t announce it.

But somewhere along the way, homes became investments.

Let’s rewind and ask when that actually happened.

#UKPolitics #HousingPolicy #HomesNotAssets #RethinkHousing

Stop treating housing as a speculative asset. A home is not a luxury product or an investment vehicle designed to maximize profit. It is a basic human right, a social necessity!

#HousingCrisis
#HumanRight
#HomesNotAssets

What will the data be like for 2028? Distribution matters. This is not about equalizing outcomes which violates economic fairness. It is about defending a meritocracy, where people who work hard, can get ahead, regardless of their family background. #ireland #homesnotassets #neoliberalism #wealth

BlackRock didn’t crash the housing market overnight. They rewired it quietly. By buying single family homes in bulk, cycling them through internal landlords,

#HousingCrisis #CorporateControl #BlackRock #RentIsTooHigh #HomesNotAssets #EconomicJustice #PeopleOverProfits

🗣 THE HOUSING CRISIS ISN'T CAUSED BY MIGRANTS!
It’s caused by billionaires, aristocrats & corporate landlords hoarding land + building luxury homes for profit.

Greens will build social housing, cap rents & take on the rigged system.
#HousingShortage #TaxTheRich #VoteGreen #HomesNotAssets

Real solutions to the housing crisis require policies that treat them as #HomesNotAssets.

#HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing #StopGreed #HomesNotAssets #RealEstate #RentControl #housingforall YouTube video by Xanthe

#HousingCrisis #AffordableHousing #StopGreed #HomesNotAssets #RealEstate #RentControl #housingforall
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Truly shocking.
Some large #UKhousing social landlords have got out of the habit of knowing, or caring, who lives in the properties they own and profit lucratively from. How exceedingly sad, to not care at all about people, like that. 😞
RIP
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#ManagedDecline
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This is the very essence of what professional landlording is about, and even managing property on behalf of a landlord: taking money without having to earn it.
#HomesNotAssets

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City centre skyscraper developer borrows another £120m of public money The Manchester-based developer has borrowed £268.5m for six schemes so far but has fully repaid the loans for three of them

Esp nice for the overseas investors, using their off-shore tax evasion.
"The developer behind several new skyscrapers in Manchester is set to borrow another £120m of public money".
#HomesNotAssets

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#HomesNotAssets

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7% every year for ten years, and we wonder why rents are rocketing. #Crapitalism
#HomesNotAssets #CozzieLivs

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#ManagedDecline #HomesNotAssets

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#ManagedDecline is a major root cause of homelessness.
#ManagedDecline is a national issue that's preventing thousands of perfectly decent homes from being lived in. All because the landlords harbour ambitions to cash in on the land.
#HomesNotAssets

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Get rid of it.
#HomesNotAssets

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#HomesNotAssets

"These are investment properties not homes"
#HomesNotAssets #BuildingSafetyCrisis

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#JustLikeKCTMO did before Grenfell, a landlord manipulating the complaints process to screw-over & disregard leaseholders with legitimate issues.
They just do not care about residents and tenants, they really don't, it's ALL about the money.
#HomesNotAssets

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