By Southwest Nationalist. A survey carried out by the Association of Retail Landlords (ARLA) has suggested that Britain is running out of residential rental properties.
The survey revealed that 74% of ARLA members who responded said that demand was outstripping supply in the private rental sector, the highest level since records began.
At the same time, the number of new homes being built is also at an historic low, with only 134,000 properties built in the UK in 2010.
The National Housing Federation (NHF) has warned that private sector rents may increase by as much as 19.8% over the next five years.
A ruined economy plays its part, but we have also to consider the most obvious burden placed on housing, and other sections of our critical infrastructure, namely our increasing population.
We’ve a school place shortage, and now we find we are facing a housing shortage.
Prices of rental properties will increase quite simply because of demand, too many people are competing to obtain housing in a finite market.
For the same reason we have seen wages kept artificially low – too many workers in a marketplace where there are finite jobs.
Average people lose out in all ways when the population increases at a pace with which a nation cannot cope, more people impose increasing demands on every aspect of national existence.
The heaviest weight of the burden caused by overpopulation falls squarely on the poorest in society, faced with increasing rents, lower wages, reduced job security, an endless list of costs and hardships.
Yet, despite all these shortages, over population – due to mass immigration and immigrant birth rates – is the obvious fact which all mainstream politicians ignore, we continue to allow people into Britain at an alarming rate.
These hundreds of thousands arriving each year need somewhere to live, jobs – or income via benefits, school places for children, medical care, and every other resource of which we are now discovering we don’t have enough of to cope with the existing population let alone support countless additional people.
We have to face the truth – that a population cannot expand rapidly and indefinitely. It is limited by room and resources, no matter how we fool ourselves that is a simple fact.
As we near the point where room and resources are exhausted we see hugely increasing costs and shortages as demand on resources grows beyond all possible hope of supply, and then we hit the point of collapse.
Even if we increase the availability of resources – e.g. build more houses – we only delay the inevitable, we cannot forever continue increasing resources, and even if we could we’re still limited by land mass available to us.
The longer we dither in facing the truth, the worse the situation we will find ourselves in and the more difficult it will be to fix. Absolute disaster awaits all the people in Britain if we blindly continue down this road.
The disaster is already upon us…. it just needs more time to recognizably manifest itself.
Mass immigration also explains the reason why house-prices are out of touch with reality.
I see more and more British sleeping rough in the Capital. It sickens me that our own people are living in this way. Yet in my hometown Barking and Dagenham I see a foreign population being housed.
I HOPE that our new British Democratic Party adopts the following policy. As Britain’s Public Housing Stock has been PAID for by several generations of BRITISH people we need a Fair policy. The dire need of council housing has never been greater. The MIS-USE has also never been greater! We need therefore , to make sure that only decent British
People live in British Council Houses. The following rules or similar should apply;
ONE: Only people born and resident in Britain for twenty years would be eligible.
TWO: People who already owned a home would not be eligible.
THREE. An income limit of £50 , 000 per year would apply. People who attained that figure would be required to vacate as they could buy their own home as our party will have ensured that suitable housing had been built ! The property would then be available for people in genuine need.
FOUR: No rent arrears would be tolerated. Bad payers would have to vacate in favour of good payers. With the housing benefit system there is no excuse.
FIVE: As we are a Christian country only Married couples would be considered for family homes.
SIX: No joint passport holders would be considered for British Public Housing as the other country could provide housing for them ! Also people deemed by the housing officer to be eligible for a foreign passport need not apply!
SEVEN: People who have served a prison sentence of a year or more would not usually be granted a property.
EIGHT: People guilty of anti-social behaviour like noise or harassing their neighbours would not be considered and if already resident would be required to leave!
These policies would solve all the problems of the unfair system of the liblabcon and would ensure decent British people lived in, looked after and indeed took pride in, British Council Housing just like years ago when they were first built for the generation that won the war.
I have just read that between 2001 and 2011, 470,000 immigrants have been granted council or housing association property ! The council’s claims that there is ‘no queue jumping’ are clearly false as they all declare estimated waiting times of between 5 and 25 years ! Further to the proposals above may I add ITEM 9. ANYONE in breech of any of the above items, particularly item 6, would have to leave. This would free up several million homes !
Although it would also come under the subject of benefits in general it seems to me that if items one to nine were applied to housing benefit paid to people in privately rented homes then we would save the country an absolute fortune ! Therefore I propose ITEM TEN as follows; ITEMS ONE to NINE would apply to all people seeking or receiving Housing benefit for privately owned rented homes. The billions of pounds saved over several years Nationally to be used by each council to build new council houses for our people in each area.