The average household spending on housing has been remarkably stable, its not fallen, but that average is warped by significant amounts paying £0 towards rent and mortgage, and significant amounts pa… (View Post)

It is more than the number of new homes built in 2023 and 2024 combined. Yes more than 1 person can live in a home, though actually over 30% of homes have only person living in them, and we have a ch… (View Post)

Not really as when those dependent children grow up they will quite rightly want and need a house of their own, so the average figure is the appropriate one to use. And using the average figure, our … (View Post)

Fair point, so if we go with 184,410 in 2024 completed, deducting 431,000/2.36 then the net constructed figure is an utterly pathetic 1,782 net new homes built last year. We aren't going to addr… (View Post)

If we are to make any headway on solving our housing shortage we need to be building hundreds of thousands of homes more than the net increase in demand though. Otherwise we are just standing still i… (View Post)