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Thousands of council houses to be built in UK
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by Dave Keating | January 30, 2009 at 12:41 am
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Thousands of new social housing unites are to be built in the UK, according Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Many of the estates, run by the local council governments, have over the years acquired reputations for extreem poverty and violence. However at the same time, there is a housing need in the UK currently.
The Prime Minister said there was "significant demand for housing and there is clearly spare capacity in the house building sector".
He signalled that Treasury rules preventing local authorities from building social housing would be relaxed within months.
Homes could be built quickly on land for which planning permission has been obtained but where developers have abandoned plans due to the economic downturn.
The move could go some way to reducing the 4.5 million-strong waiting list for social housing.
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at 08:55 on January 31st, 2009
This is absolutely the wrong solution done in the wrong way. Panice housing, which is what this is, not the way to provide housing or build communities. As for the British approach of packing people in like sardines (many of whom are either workless, on welfare, or involved in the black or criminal economies) into public housing estates, is a well known social failure. Ninety-nine percent of these people need to get some character and discipline and a job, before being given free housing. Coops are a better model for housing, where the single moms and the poor are mixed in with people who have an education and ambition. They learn to raise their game.