3 million more homes by 2020

Yvette Cooper, Labour's Minister for Housing, answers your questions submitted via labour.org.uk.

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[MURDERyourLEADERS]

Totally selective comments editing.

[brit1234]

Shared Ownership is a con, it just a way the government together with speculators can over inflate the property market.

Higher cost properties means more stamp duty, inheritance tax and CGT.

[dom597167]

If you want homes to be affordable why not let the over inflated property market fall further rather than punish prudent taxpayers, the young, and the yet to be born, by using our money to prop up those who have already made a killing - the banks and property speculators.

PS. If you don't print this I will do my own video explaining why you are so terrified of common sense solutions.

[siandbezz]

Thats right concrete over the green belt

[BlesamaSoul]

If we keep importing poverty from abroad and paying for the chavs to sit on their bums then we will just have to keep building cheap rubbish for these people to live in. Planning will be taken into New Labours hands so they can build their vote into England and stay in power. ID the lazy and reduce the number of people coming to the UK, more than enough to go around then in the private sector without meddling for Yvetter and friends!

[dom597167]

I don't understand your argument, Yevette. If there was a physical shortage of residential property then surely that would be reflected in rents? Rents have not kept pace with house price inflation. Also, there has been massive house price inflation in countries with no land shortage and relaxed planning laws, the USA, NZ, EU, AUS etc etc. Property has been the latest investment vehicle globally. The reasons are monetary nothing to do with physical constraints.

[jonathannewbrook]

YEY more homes!

But who said we'll be able to afford to 'buy'/'live in' them?

[Mike1977a1]

I understand that not everyone can have a house in britain, but i think that the government could regulate the construction industry to encourage them to build alot more affordable homes.

[Mike1977a1]

I think there is a massive hidden mass of people who need a house but they wont ever be seen in the mainstream media because the corporatists in the construction industry dont like affordable housing.

How can these people gain a voice?

[Alfietheok]

Please be truthful & honest. When you are talking about 3 million houses being built 'across the country', please be clear you are only talking about building them in England (housing is a devolved issue). And when they have been built, what happens then? Great, let's build more! But what happens when we have no more countryside left - where should we build them then?

England is already the most densely populated country in Europe, just how big a population does New Labour think we need?

[Alfietheok]

3 million homes across 'the country'? That'll be England only then. But obviously, Ms Cooper & co will try to give the impression that it is across the UK - it ain't. And what happens when we've built those - will we have to build another 3 - 4 mill? And when we've built on every piece of English countryside, what then?