According to the Poverty Site, 25% of all the homes in England alone were classified as “non-decent”, and the number of new 'social housing' dwellings has fallen well beneath the demographic requirement.
The Rural Community Council quotes that 153,000 householders are on the waiting lists for affordable rural housing in the East of England - and the UK national figure is 750,000.
According to 'The Farmers Guardian', there are 750,000 people in the UK on the waiting lists for affordable rural housing. “The National Housing Federation (NHF) says too few affordable homes are being built to address the chronic shortage in the countryside. At the current rate of development, it will take 280 years before everyone on the waiting lists is housed”
http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/rural-life/country-view/fighting-to-keep-rural-spirit-alive-in-country-communities/30618.article
In order to satisfy the growing population in the UK, demand for new housing requires 5 million new homes to be built between 2005 and 2025, - Angela Balakrishnan, The Guardian, published16th March 2007, the article also stating government data showing that new house building in 2006 only rose 0.5%. Shelter quoted this figure will create a shortfall of 1 million homes by 2026.
Graeme Brown, director of communications at Shelter was quoted as stating that 1 in 7 children in the UK are growing up homeless or badly housed. 90,000 people are housed in 'temporary accommodation'.
Lorna Blackwood of the Times Online, 19/10/07, wrote “Empty Homes: the mystery of the UK's million vacant homes”, in which she presented figures showing that 1,260,000 houses are empty.
Housing Statistics 2008, quoted on the Communities and Local Government website, states that in England in 2007, there was 22.2 million dwellings, of which 70% are owner-occupied. The lower quartile house prices were 7.3 times lower the quartile earnings.
The same report went on to quote that there were approximately 44,000 affordable housing units provided in England in 2006-07, of which 30% were in London.
A 'Crisis' Media centre press release, 14th August 2009, states that the social impact of the recession is yet to be felt. During the second quarter of 2009, more than 11,000 households were repossessed.
A report by Crisis on 7th August 2009 had already identified that Council's were failing single homeless people, this was researched by an undercover operation, proving that the advice levels were so poor, that at 45 visits to Councils had the enquirer been genuine, would have resulted in them living on the streets. Most investigators were treated like “second class” citizens, asked to explain their stories repeatedly, in public settings with ‘little empathy’.
Shelter also published an article 20/08/09 'House building in severe decline in the East of England' – according to Government 2nd quartile figures for 2009, the construction of new homes has fallen by 10% from 4,400 to just 3,990 – although there are an estimated 153,000 households on the waiting lists for East of England council housing - as previously referenced!
The solution? - Simple: proven ecological architectural designs which use natural materials around the site and don't 'cost the Earth' to use.
(Examples as shown under "construction materials" on this website. /straw-bale--cob.html)
The Rural Community Council quotes that 153,000 householders are on the waiting lists for affordable rural housing in the East of England - and the UK national figure is 750,000.
According to 'The Farmers Guardian', there are 750,000 people in the UK on the waiting lists for affordable rural housing. “The National Housing Federation (NHF) says too few affordable homes are being built to address the chronic shortage in the countryside. At the current rate of development, it will take 280 years before everyone on the waiting lists is housed”
http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/rural-life/country-view/fighting-to-keep-rural-spirit-alive-in-country-communities/30618.article
In order to satisfy the growing population in the UK, demand for new housing requires 5 million new homes to be built between 2005 and 2025, - Angela Balakrishnan, The Guardian, published16th March 2007, the article also stating government data showing that new house building in 2006 only rose 0.5%. Shelter quoted this figure will create a shortfall of 1 million homes by 2026.
Graeme Brown, director of communications at Shelter was quoted as stating that 1 in 7 children in the UK are growing up homeless or badly housed. 90,000 people are housed in 'temporary accommodation'.
Lorna Blackwood of the Times Online, 19/10/07, wrote “Empty Homes: the mystery of the UK's million vacant homes”, in which she presented figures showing that 1,260,000 houses are empty.
Housing Statistics 2008, quoted on the Communities and Local Government website, states that in England in 2007, there was 22.2 million dwellings, of which 70% are owner-occupied. The lower quartile house prices were 7.3 times lower the quartile earnings.
The same report went on to quote that there were approximately 44,000 affordable housing units provided in England in 2006-07, of which 30% were in London.
A 'Crisis' Media centre press release, 14th August 2009, states that the social impact of the recession is yet to be felt. During the second quarter of 2009, more than 11,000 households were repossessed.
A report by Crisis on 7th August 2009 had already identified that Council's were failing single homeless people, this was researched by an undercover operation, proving that the advice levels were so poor, that at 45 visits to Councils had the enquirer been genuine, would have resulted in them living on the streets. Most investigators were treated like “second class” citizens, asked to explain their stories repeatedly, in public settings with ‘little empathy’.
Shelter also published an article 20/08/09 'House building in severe decline in the East of England' – according to Government 2nd quartile figures for 2009, the construction of new homes has fallen by 10% from 4,400 to just 3,990 – although there are an estimated 153,000 households on the waiting lists for East of England council housing - as previously referenced!
The solution? - Simple: proven ecological architectural designs which use natural materials around the site and don't 'cost the Earth' to use.
(Examples as shown under "construction materials" on this website. /straw-bale--cob.html)
