This Matters: UK housing is broken, can anyone fix it? - BBC News 

I remember my grandad saying he bought his house for a few hundred pounds, just goes to show how far we've gone

The reason there’s poor quality of flats isn’t because there’s a large group people renting private it’s due to the fact that the planning regulations were torn up.

Cut migration

1 year later homes are 300,000. If the prices drop, incredibly rich people that can afford it will buy them up fast for above the asking price and rent them out . More people owning more than one home and more people not even being able to purchase a first. The gap will only get bigger

The fact is the people who own houses don't want lots of new house because it will reduce their house value. Huge percentage of people don't really want it sadly.

Don’t forget the policies of the Bank of England has had a major role in this disaster

Stop letting people into the country. Job done

If 300,000 come in one year.... What could the problem be?

Easy solution, tax second houses with 25% VAT and property tax of 10% per year, and third houses and above at 50% VAT and 20% per year. Watch the supply explode as speculators and investors dump houses and suddenly, the fact that there are more houses than people in the world will be reflected in markets.

Nothing about unrestrained immigration?? Wow.

No more renting , prices have to come down. Making them more “affordable” only means letting you borrow more than you should anyway. Hard to stomach for most people but house prices have to come down

Not just the UK, but all over the world this is a problem. In the end you'll find that over population is the root of all the housing issues.

Maybe we should have not let the Tories sell off the council housing stock in the 80's.

Why nobody talks about the corruption in the councils and tax avoidance in the housing market? The system is broken because theoretical facts, don't apply in practice due to corruption!

Labour's plan to cap rent prices is definitely the way to go- if a building is already there then the usual argument that it could affect the market negatively doesn't apply.

Expensive in England ? Hong Kong : Hold my Molotov Cocktail.

Cough cough open borders cough

Our population had increased by 5 Millon YOUNG people. Old people live longer. We have primary school overflowing with foreign children. Supply is a problem but we are forgetting our population is growing to 73 Millon by 2035

Just by a tent or blue tarp and lawn chair problem solved

Migration is the problem. Where do they live? Fix the root cause.

In my area pretty much all the old farm land has been bought up to build cheaply built houses that still go for about 250 grand

The Immigration Invasion. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work that out.

My friend who crossed two seas on the boat to be in UK and who is a doctor said that pure horseshit.

Privatise the BBC make them work for a living 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Reduce immigration and leave it at that for government intervention

I think the problem is in lots of immigrants, not in new homes. To be honest, I’m also an expat. My husband and I moved here as professionals. Being Russians we had to obtain working Visas. We were waiting for visas for 3 months. We had to pass IELTS, proof qualification, make tuberculosis check. An employer spent thousands of pounds for our visas providing sponsorship. We can live in the UK only while we have a well paid job, an employer which provides sponsorship, in other case we have to leave. On the other hand, I see immigrants who even don’t know English and they don’t need any sponsorship, work, visa to live here. Some of them even don’t want to work. Someone stole my wallet with BRP, driving license and money. Рoliсe can’t deal with all cases. We see increasing robberies, stabbing. I suppose these things have some connection to immigrants. I don’t want to blame anyone, but this is the reality. And It’s not about Brexit. It’s about different attitude to different nations. Some people don’t have any limits to stay in the UK and they use their rights up 150%. We live on island. The country literally has borders. It can’t provide homes and work for everyone in the world. Especially for people who can’t make positive impact. I think, there should be strong rules for every nation without exception. Make the standarts for immigrants, for jobs for immigrants. Strict rules. All candidates have to show how they can be useful. If they pass all tests, they can live here, otherwise they have to train and work more and try again.

Bring more ppl in. I'm sure it'll solve the problem.

I believe that unfettered immigration over the last 20 years has contributed to property to becoming so expensive to buy and rent. Compare this also to the long waits to get an appointment to see a GP. The infrastructure can no longer cope with the number of people now living here to need to be served.

Same here in Canada house prices have out stripped wages by a large margin. Some day it will all come crashing down.

They can start by stopping eu citizens claiming housing benefits.

If demand exceeds the supply, you know central planners made it so.

We let in MILLIONS of foreigners in a short period and that raised the price of housing. High demand combined with low supply makes high prices - simple economics. Our population raised by 5 million more than it should have done between 2005 and 2015. Get Brexit done and keep tight borders or it will become worse.

Tbh I’m 40 with a family and the UK housing market is screwing me too - and I’ve even got a half-decent career. Basically it’s some degree of inheritance or no chance of buying or retiring, even if I hunker down and don’t ever take holidays or buy a car, rent alone in the South near to London is over 40% of my take home pay - try saving for a mortgage or even emergencies with that

too many people!!

I wonder if having 300,000 net migrants a year with a much higher fertility rate than native Brits has anything to do with it ? 🤔🤔🤔

2 years later… almost 50% of adults under 35 live with their parents… many rents have doubled… Goodbye UK

I think it would be nice if you did a video bringing to light the issue with prior approval office to residential developments allowed by the government in 2013 (and still ongoing). I suppose it was meant to help make more houses but it’s actually created many unfit and inhumane ‘flats’ as it has been a loop hole abused by the market.

As a homeowner, and a self employed Architect who makes his living from other homeowners, I believe we have let house prices get way out of control. I seriously worry about the prospects for future generations if we don’t address this now; Scrap the green belt, no half measures. Change the planning system from case-by-case to zonal. Fund the creation of new towns. Start a proper apprenticeship system at secondary school, like the German model, we need WAY more tradespeople. Get the government back into the building game, the private sector cannot and will not meet demand. Even if we did these radical moves it’s likely to take a generation for supply to meet demand. The best case is that housing prices stay flat for a few decades, allowing wages to catch up in real terms.

This is NOT just a supply side issue. The number one reason house price inflation has run rampant over the past 20+ years is ultra cheap and loose credit. This cheap, easy credit almost destroyed the financial system in 2008, and has been propped up ever since. The average salary has stayed the same IN NOMINAL terms for almost the same period that average house prices have doubled. The only genuine explanation for this is that credit has exploded and in addition to allowing people to bid up prices it has made investing in property very attractive... If your savings account is getting 1.03% interest, ANY yield from a BTL looks good. So the stage has been set for BTL and corporate landlordism. Sadly every party is full to the brim with BTL landlords and they are in no hurry to stop interferring.

Don't vote for parties that make promises and don't fulfil them

£280,000 for some labour bricks and pipes two bedroom house what a joke

This has become a permanent way of life, it's insanity inducing.

this is a lovely bit of journalism and production. great team!

Nearly 70 million population might have something to do with it, and still more people coming in

I have been banging on about this for the last six years. Boris promised 400,000 houses in London - none have been built under Khans watch. There is no provision whatsoever for people on low or no incomes and certainly none in proportion to peoples earnings. Everyone should have a home, certainly everyone who is native to the UK should have their own home and foreigners should have to rent. Investment Companies should be prevented from buying housing and leaving it empty for years.

I’m still living with my parents saving up for a mortgage I refuse to privately rent

This program tells me whitout any doubt that the BBC is biased and also working to protect the top part of the British society. We don't really need to build more houses. We just need a law that says: you can own only the house you live in and a second house for holiday ( which you cannot rent). If you want to own more houses, you need to pay a considerable fee for each one, and you will never be able to rent them. You don't need to be a genius to understand that this would fix the problem, just need to be honest...an honest journalist.

I loved this video. The young need to understand what is happening in their country so that they can hold those responsible to account at the next election. Housing (shelter) is s huge issue, part of the most basic needs on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs'. Any government that neglects this is not worthy.

Great video. Housing is a big problem here in Brazil too.

"Building houses for the poor only makes labour supporters" George Osborne

Housing everywhere is broken ♥️

Open door policies on migration, maybe we need millions of new homes?

It's broken due to nothing else in the economy is booming.

There’s a massive difference between the property market and council houses. Stamp duty is too high. Council tax for home owners is too high. No one can sell and no one wants to buy

Cut demand, especially foreign demand and cap homeownership. Citizens first and prosperity.

It's been broken since 1996 and you know it, humans need education to this horror of dept and price manipulation, 1991 House =25k and now 2012 same house 200k, but wages 1991=12k average UK wage and now 2021= 23k fact and increasing job insecurity too, unfortunately this totally mad

We have some housing estates being built in our area but they are too expensive for local people to buy. Meanwhile my daughter with three children are being evicted from their house because the owner wants to sell

WHY DID ENGLAND OPEN THERE DOORS TO THE WORLD, IF NOT ENOUGH HOUSING? I don't understand? Stop the TAPE AND GET A REAL PERSON TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO FIX IT.

Damn this woman just said housing problem won't be solved anytime soon that too with a happy face. The heart broken to pieces

CORRECTION!! The average house in London West London especially is over £500,000 for a measly Flat never mind. £400,000 for dodgy Endz East like Hackney and North London.

I live in easr london. Without notice they stared renovation. Last 4 years was one landlord. From 27.09.2020 cam new landlord. He started to push me move from the house as soon as possible. At the moment it is very difficult for me. I need serious help. In this situation i have not any arrangment to move out. Please help me.

Either put a cap on how many properties landlords can own (with no loop holes) or make landlords pay council tax instead of the tenants...

Since this video was made, in my area, I've seen dozens of empty properties, if no one has lived in them for a certain amount of time then they should be allowed to be taken over, yes they may require work, but at least it gets people on the housing ladder and the council gets council tax from the property. Another issue that needs addressing is the cost of rent, there needs to be a rent cap, it's got out of hand, something has to be done. Another thing that needs to be capped is the amount of properties anyone can own, it's pure breed from landlords who are allowed to get away with it

Yes. Stop building estates with huge paths and tiny roads with no off-road parking and two bedrooms and no garden. We want 3 or 4 bedroom houses with 80 to 100 foot gardens with garages and multiple off road parking spaces. & then because our wages are very poor compared to the US we need to half all taxes taxes so more money is in people's pockets to keep up with the massively high prices. 30k in 1995 on £200 a week for a 3 bedroom house with a garage and garden with multiple off road spaces and now it's worth 300k so it's made allot of people very rich while left others with no way to buy a house in the future as these same people own multiple houses and put them on the market to rent at £700.

They introduced this mid market rent bullsh*t. Its supposed to be affordable for working families. Its NOT. My mum tried to apply for one and was told she would need to be earning at LEAST 45K per year. Theres no way she will ever be able to afford that on her wage and neither will I. Its a fkn disgrace.

We build approximately 180000 a year every year for last 20 years, we don’t have any more builders to build more homes???

To fix it you would have to devalue everyone's house by about 90%, no one's going to want that

For a video about pressing topics, she has the most joyful smile ever!

Build more and restrict maximum number off residential buildings any individual/couple /company can own to 2 or 3 ( but bring it down gradually) so we use what we have more efficiently 🤲

Just want to say minimum wage 20 years ago were £6 now £8 that's £2 increase while houses have tripled some quadrupled and some well 5-10x the price which is dumb to be safe and afford a house we need a minimum wage of £12 to be safe as that would be far but nope the rich get richer while the poor get poorer

Carve your deposits from the families of the estate agents. If they do not fear reprisal, they won't fear overstepping their boundaries.

Root of the problem is the type of houses being built since the 19th century. Since land is scarce, the Terrace houses have to be demolished and built flats to replace them. Build and use the available space in the atmosphere, upwards towards the sky

Some segments in the video are stamped not adjacent to each other

I Don't know why anybody would choose to live in Britain or want to remain there, it's a mess, a million Poles decided to, we moved to Poland and own our own new house in a beautiful country where everyone can have a slice of the cake if they want to. I'm really pleased that 3 of my children have a council house and my forth has just bought an ex council house for 80k, so 100% of my children are not homeless, how did THEY do it then ? luck ?

Crazy concept but has anyone tried buying in a cheap area? I'm 26 and got a cheap house. We can all sit and complain online but nobody is gonna fix the problem for us. So simply adapt.

im an architecture student, all can i say is you all need too deconstruct the meaning of "house", how many hours do you stay "in" your house (in this context im preferring to younger adults), for example even a snail needs only its 1.5 of its size, microhouses everyone! look it up.

There’s too many people. But that’s too difficult a subject for politicians to face

Let's be honest, the whole system isn't working against itself, it's working against us.

Please BBC, keep out of the election this close to it and analyse why we have a shortage. Gone go spend the licence money more wisely.

Housing is devolved in the UK, hence why Right to Buy is abolished in Scotland, Wales is next. x

houses are only expensive for under 35s? do I get a disccount for being 42??

0:22 it wasn't your ''own home'' if you were renting it from a landlord. Some people are hilarious

the sound is not good I am quite disappointed

There's a big elephant in the room. Every stat/issue is discussed apart from immigration. Where is this obscenely high level of demand coming from? Viva brexit and an end to this absurdity which has resulted in one of the richest countries in the world devastating this green and pleasant land with cookie cutter housing estates.

At least still cheaper than in Tel Aviv

Maybe if we didn't take in so many migrants we would have enough houses. Our population is only going up due to the large numbers of migration each year. "Plant more trees, build more houses" sooner or later we're going to run out of space.

I don't know about Britain specifically, but this video does not address the root cause of housing shortages everywhere: zoning laws. Usually, housing shortages are caused by governments imposing strict zoning laws that prevent the measures that could alleviate the shortages, such as restrictions on building height, minimum house size, and non-safety related building codes for houses, which make them more expensive and harder to build. Get rid of these restrictions, and you'd see a lot more skyscraper apartment complexes and tiny houses, which would go a long way toward solving this problem.

So much talk about house why no one take a look in the the statics of the rate of population increase in Britain as well as the population distribution in the country? The sources is highly likely due to over population explosion. If you can't control housing because you got a small island there, then you need to control population increasing. Take a page from Hong Kong’s Black Yellow Color Pro-Democracy movement (in fact it’s the Revolution). The goal of the constant protests and violent riot is to reduce the density of population and to drastic drop of the housing prices.

Government will never be able to meet market demand for housing. To fix this we must look at the systemic reason why the land that is already out there and available is not meeting the demand. Hoarders and speculators are awaiting profits off these unending rises in housing. They are profiting off the efforts of their community while doing nothing! Only land value taxes will push them to develop sell so actually productive members of the community can live and create opportunities for themselves and others.

We very often have "boomers" telling the young to "work harder" but they neglect that they were very lucky to be in a position to buy their homes during a time of relative prosperity and when houses were plentiful and cheap.

Didn’t heat the news either,did you look at the lead?;)

It's only a joke in London. If you can't save up for a 5% deposit on a flat then you're shit with money.

We can’t even fix housing in America they want at least 20 percent down payment meanwhile more than 70 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck rent is rising after the lease faster than our hourly pay ... and add medical bills college debt it’s like a never ending bill cycle

If you're struggling to house the people you already have in your country, mass importing hundreds of thousands more and letting them jump the queue is ridiculously stupid and illogical

Good to hear this problem isn't just in the USA.

And with the cladding crisis that has left thousands of buildings unsellable because they arebdangerous...Hope these people get paid by these companies that used inflamable materials.

wow, opened my eyes

Make interest on mortgages illegal after all you are only paying interest on a loan you have made to yourself. Not a lot of people know that

the only thing have a problem with is how people from the western world talk about living with their parents like its a shame or crime.... dude here in the eastern side we live with our parents for most of our life. AS A FAMILY!! and isnt the idea of flats, or high density living properties known in england??

it's not that there isn't enough houses, it's that there's too many people trying to get them, it's what happens when you don't moderate immigration