Like THOUSANDS in London

But it's an even bigger money pit when you have a housing shortage but you're paying taxpayer money to private landlords in order to house poor people

The housing shortage is coming from people leaving their homes empty

It's not

Like in London for example

There are over 2 million people homeless or underhomed in the UK. There are not empty homes for 2 million people in London

And the number increases every year

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/number-empty-homes-hits-highest-rate-20-years-calling-question/

Part of it is, mostly though it's because we haven't built homes and for some reason don't want to build on unnatural greenspace

Stop building more homes.

It's a waste of money and land usage

Take the homes away from faggots not using them

OK Corbyn

No point building on greenspace when you a) need the greensspace for the environment and food, and b) people want the homes where the work is

Calm down

Kek, nothing wrong with Corbyns policy in that regard tbh

IN general you want to be limiting population growth and then fixing the housing crisis we have

Then force people to rent or sell their empty homes @Eccles

Just tax the shit out of empty homes

Easy. Badda bing, badda boom.

Waste of land usage as compared to what? Farming is uneconomical and their are plenty of greenspaces within a radius of cities

And tax the shit out of empty houses yes

"Waste of land usage as compared to what" Compared to more empty homes.

Why build more homes which are going to sit empty, unused?

Honestly if I owned a empty home

And you wanted to tax it or kick out

I'd be renting that shit

Farming is not uneconomical

I'd convert to commercial

And keep it empty

So? @Eccles

joshu does your attitude change if we're talking about rich saudis/chinese/others buying up homes as investments?

Or nominate it as my office

No crafty

Who wants the country to be a sprawling city?

I'm not a fucking socialist

No green, just dead-buildings

Who wants to redistribute wealth from the rich people

Society does

kek

``Foreign investors are buying up thousands of homes suitable for first-time buyers in London, using them as buy-to-let investments and often holding them in offshore tax havens, research for the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has revealed.

Led by investors from Hong Kong and Singapore, foreign buyers snapped up 3,600 of London’s 28,000 newly built homes between 2014 and 2016, according to the most comprehensive survey yet of international investment in London housing. About half of those were priced for first-time buyers between £200,000 and £500,000.``