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Four years before they’re even renovated? Alternative being a social rent to a homeless family? Ok then.

To be fair, it’s good to see NSC’s man of the people (never wrong, apart from Solly March) on the side of big business for once. Let us know when you move in.

Yeah, it’s exactly the same case :rolleyes:

Why are you equating a home for a family with a football stadium?

Nice meme copying. Well done 👍

I’m guessing, but I’m pretty sure you don’t have the numbers either.

There are 261,000 empty properties nationwide, so use either your imagination or your maths skills and work it out for yourself. While you’re at it look up “example” in the dictionary.

I don’t disagree with that. As often, the binary nature of debate spoils nuance. The number of empty properties needs to be reduced in conjunction with a sensible entire infrastructure build in other places. Lobbing up flat pack on green belt that will be bought for over market price by...

Nothing, because if I was homeless (which is the use case I was challenged with) I’d rather have a warm flat at social housing rates in Crawley than a kerb in Brighton.

You weren’t priced out due to a lack of available housing. There are no second home owners in Portslade spending one week a month in the charity shops, 24 hour off licences and “barber shops” on Boundary./ Station Road. In fact, the area has a higher than average social housing number. And if...

The first part, yes, absolutely. The second part, rent them out at social housing rates and use the income to the exchequer to plug gaps in spending on other stuff. Education, health, prisons and the police. The immigration mess.

Aye. They're terrible. Don't get me wrong, my point isn't that we don't need houses. We obviously do. I've got two teenagers, I don't want them staying here forever because they can't get a place of their own. And homelessness is a terrible thing. But as I replied to the other guy, with a...

According to the Big Issue there are 261,189 empty homes in the UK, up 12,000 and more from the last survey. https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/how-many-empty-homes-are-there-in-the-uk/ Perhaps fill those before bricking up AONBs and dog walking routes with unsupported, shitty, flimsy new...

No. We need housing in appropriate places with the additional services - schools, GPs, public transport etc - to support them. One without the other is pointless.