Social housing news credit crunch
Social housing news credit crunch
With interest rates rising and home building being at the lowest point that it has been in over 60 years, the lists are growing as the demand for social housing is increasing at an alarming rate. All due to the credit crunch that the world is reeling from. Social housing seems to be the only viable option for many people anymore. But in the UK right now the waiting time for a 2 bedroom home is 6 years. With the lenders making things so difficult for the home builders to secure funds to build the homes that are needed is not helping the situation at all. In the meantime the people that need homes will have to wait on the list until it is their turn to get a home that they can call their own. Until then they will have to stay in the small flats until their time. The housing prices and restrictions that have been imposed have made impossible for the people on these lists to be able to afford to purchase a home without it being one that is through social housing. Now if the financial institutions would make things somewhat easier for the developers and the builders the problem would not be near this bad as they would be able to secure the needed funds to start constructing the housing that is in such high demand. Until the give them some leeway in regards to getting the funds that they need to start the building process there hands are tied. The government has stepped in and set a plan in motion that will see that 45,000 social homes will be built and available for rent by the year 2011. This is a step in the right direction but not near what the UK needs to meet the demands that have been imposed upon them. Once again we will reflect back to where the problem lies. If the banks were to allow housing associations and builders the ability to secure the funds they need to build the houses, there would be not near the housing shortage that there is now. The government needs to step in a bit further than they have to ensure that the people in their country have safe and stable environments in which to live. They do have the ability to force the banks to lend. They have far more control the average Joe out there. A few words from them would be all it would take and construction could be up and running. But this is very unlikely to happen.










