#ukhousing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ukhousing, aggregated by home.social.
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#BBCLicenceFee #TheBBC #UKHousing
How many people are prosecuted for not paying the licence fee?
If you do not pay the licence fee, you can be taken to court, and fined up to £1,000 (£2,000 in Guernsey) plus legal costs and/or compensation.The most recent figures show there were 25,550 convictions for licence fee evasion in 2024.
You cannot be sent to prison for licence fee evasion, but you can be jailed for failing to pay the resulting fine.
In March 2025, the TV licensing body estimated that around 88% of households which need a TV licence had one.
It said officers visited more than 1.9 million addresses over the previous 12 months, and found more than 64,000 people watching live TV without a licence.
It said £166m had been spent collecting the licence fee during the period.
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"Homelessness campaigners welcomed the move, but warned more will need to be done to tackle the longer-term temporary accommodation crisis, which has given the UK the worst homelessness problem in the western world."
10+ years of Tories will do that...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/18/burnham-national-drive-rough-sleepers-christmas
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Look what the priorities are for this Government, fucking AI Datacentres....while our lakes and rivers dry up!
You can bet the Data centre target will be more important than New Homes, Paedophile Oligarchs don't care about those, just their CSAM generating Data Centres.
#ClimateCrisis #EpsteinClass #UKPol #UKPolitics #DataCentres #UKHousing #Labour
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RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116999911317397719
The only way Labour are going to do anything decent is with the Greens chasing them
#Labour #Greens #GreenParty #GPEW #AndyBurnham #RentControls #UKHousing
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Today, the average English home costs 7.7x median earnings, up from around 4x in the late 1990s. It's not avocado toast. Working young people are structurally worse off.
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School Infrastructure Strained by Residential Expansion: A Multi-Region Trend
UK councils now require new schools for housing projects of 700 homes or more. See how Kent, Derbyshire, and Gloucestershire are affected.
#UKHousing, #NewSchools, #LocalGovernment, #EducationPolicy, #Infrastructure
https://newsletter.tf/uk-housing-boom-new-schools-700-homes/
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New housing in the UK is now directly linked to building new schools. For every 700 homes built, a new school is needed to support the growing population.
#UKHousing, #NewSchools, #LocalGovernment, #EducationPolicy, #Infrastructure
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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? -
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. -
Can we actually encourage developers and land-bankers to build?
If building homes is how developers make money…
why wouldn’t they be building?Maybe the question isn’t greed —
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We plan roads.
We plan water.
We plan power.So why don’t we plan housing the same way?
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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?
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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.
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Housing did not become unaffordable overnight.
It is the outcome of decades of policy decisions, financialisation, planning constraints, and the turning of homes into speculative assets rather than places to live.
This video clearly explains why wages lag behind prices and who benefits from the crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HsT3hZPtSc#HousingCrisis #CostOfLiving #Property #UKHousing #Inequality
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It's not just where you are that is suffering identikit estates from the big builders: only 10% of new homes were delivered by small/medium enterprises recently. No wonder everywhere is starting to look the same car-dependent sprawl, rather than the healthy #Marmot places we need.
Seen in: Opportunity knocks for the UK housing co-op sector
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"There is a delegating of critical decision-making authority away from humans and into immutable rulebooks, policies, bureaucratic protocols, or automated algorithms" https://paulitaylor.com/2025/10/31/complaints-rise-because-our-organisations-are-designed-to-generate-complaints/ < Very good post on failure demand in the public sector from Paul Taylor #localgov #ukhousing
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Who controls the air we breathe at home? Awaab’s law and the limits of individual actions
#Health #Politics #AwaabsLaw #IndoorAirQuality #Inequality #HousingCrisis #SocialJustice #Health #Mould #UKHousing #TenantRights #PublicHealth #Housing #CleanAir
https://the-14.com/who-controls-the-air-we-breathe-at-home-awaabs-law-and-the-limits-of-individual-actions/ -
CW: UKpol, housing
Well, OF COURSE the Labour homelessness minister evicted her tenants so she could raise the rents. The only surprise is that she has enough of a sense of shame to resign.
Ban MPs from being landlords.
#RushanaraAli #Homelessness #UKpol #UKpolitics #UKhousing #Evictions #TenantRights #Landlords #RentGouging
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Instead of linking up to the mains (which is a problem for British wires) wire up the panels to a battery in the flat.
Right now I have a small solar panel charging a powerpack, give us more!
Because at some point the lights are going to go out, even in London.