@philippilk Lack of supply where work, adequate infrastructure, etc. are available.

@SohrabAhmari I.e. the main ‘supply’ problem is just an extremely lopsided regional development strategy. Not hard to build a rail line to a town like this, for example.

@philippilk Given the way infrastructure and social housing work in Britain, I think there's a case to be made that housing supply outside of major metro areas functionally doesn't matter. Nobody can be made to move there no matter the price dynamics.

@obzhdam Sort of implies the YIMBYs might be wrong then…

@philippilk Clearly you’ve never been to Horden.

@philippilk You live in London and are criticizing others for wanting the *exact* same thing. Knock it off.

@philippilk A lack of affordable supply where people want to live and work. That video is the poster for rapid deindustrialisation without any thought to how the jobs that were lost would be replaced.

@philippilk Easiest solution to avoid the broken window syndrome further.....nice.

@philippilk There are something like 1 million of unused homes in the UK. So we’re only 3 million short.

@philippilk That's an old mining village in County Durham. The community & and its houses were built around the colliery and since the mine closed in the 1980s the community has no reason to exist anymore. People started moving away for work leaving empty houses 1/2

@philippilk Absolute destitution is on the rise. Gone are the days of the empire, but the mindset still lingers on......

@philippilk If there’s no work as in old mining villages then people can’t live there

@philippilk years of aid to poor regions rather than tax breaks for companies that set up there. Ireland did it the other way and are now the second richest country in the world on a PPP per capita basis.

@philippilk “Everything“ is fake

@philippilk There's plenty of supply, just not where jobs and services are (and therefore where people want to live)

@philippilk I doubt housing is unaffordable here

@philippilk The lack of supply relative to demand is in other locations, not there. Another factor is the quality of housing of that street is atrocious yet the location is no economic advantage over the middle of the countryside

@philippilk Somalis refusing to be moved to shitter areas is the cause.

@philippilk You think £37k is unaffordable for a 2 bed house? And you do realise many of these are being sold at auction at a starting price of £5k.

@philippilk Regional inequality has the same cause as the housing crisis. The unjust (unequal) distribution of the returns to land among society. As mitigating this inequality also results in taxes on output, a disaster for our economy too.