The NIMBY party wants to focus on building, huh?
i suppose they’re not called tories on bikes for nothing. these are local elections so noone really gives a shit but maybe a decent show in may will build some momentum for them. i hope so because i like their housing policy overall, including ending right to buy, reintroducing rent control, increasing new build % of council housing and bringing housing back into council management where possible
HO500 The Green Party believes in the value of public ownership under the control of elected representatives as part of mixed provision for social housing. Council housing and the secure tenure it affords is an essential form of social housing provision. National Government must ensure adequate and good quality council housing stock is retained and provided by every local authority
i work for a council housing dept so am biased but i do really believe that a strong social housing sector is the best way to to start reducing the cost of housing & cost of living overall
I work for developers from time to time and I absolutely agree!
if they get a decent spec job i doubt they mind who eventually gets the handover? but perhaps not, would some or most of them consider it harmful to their prestige to develop a site for council use compared to private?
i work for a council housing dept so am biased but i do really believe that a strong social housing sector is the best way to to start reducing the cost of housing & cost of living overall
I agree with you here! I just worry their track record suggests that they’d tend to block anything that didn’t meet an impossibly high standard.
i am choosing to believe that a wave of newly elected greens would follow their manifesto principles where at all possible. i am extremely naive btw
I’m all in favour of optimism. However, the reason Labour is failing to build homes is that there are real, difficult barriers to building enough homes, and those barriers will still exist if the Greens win.
yes and there won’t be quick progress in removing or avoiding such barriers. housing has been through the fat end of fifty years of privatisation and bubble inflation and the beneficiaries of that will not easily give it up. but they must be told that the value of their investment may go down as well as up, and they’ve been on the up for far too long
Can you elaborate on what your comment is meant to mean? I’m not sure I understand. My apologies and thanks in advance.
No problem at all! The Greens in the UK often vote against building things, including eco-friendly deveopment. They argue that they’re in favour in principle, but then find reasons to oppose specific developments over and over again. This is known as ‘nimbyism’, which comes from the phrase ‘Not In My Back Yard’ used when people say things like ‘I am in favour of (e.g.) new homes but not in my back yard’.
My comment was intended to convey my scepticism that a party that keeps opposing building even green infrastructure is now going to build a lot of new housing, as they claim here. Even at the event, Polanski made comments about opposing new developments if they didn’t meet certain nebulous standards, which is a classic nimby tactic!
Thanks for your time and explanation.
It’s fine. They just need to build the houses outside the environment so as to not inconvenience any blades of grass.
