The biggest issue with 'Right to buy' was that local councils from whom the housing stock was bought were not ALLOWED to reinvest the money in building replacement housing. The money they received ended up back with central Government to pay for other stuff.
That's something that really worries me. People tend to be politically very apathetic (most of the time) because they don't realise that much of what they do have - in terms of rights- was hard won by earlier generations, not something they should just assume will always be there.
The council places were original built to give stability to working families so you did not have to worry about the roof over your head. Giving the children chances.
You're right. Thatcher did put a stop to social housing, and sold off much of it , as she believed everyone SHOULD own their own homes, even though most couldn't afford to .
We are very fortunate to live in social housing on an old style secure tenancy. We have been in our house for 23 years and bought our 5 children up here. We both work full time in health and social care, we would never be able to afford a mortgage, but when our kids were young I was able to stay home to look after them. Most people in the area I live do have jobs and on the whole it's an ok place to live. Our house was built in the 1940s post WW2 and is a good size with a nice garden. The old post war houses are great quality housing and many of them are now in private ownership. Not all council estates are as bad as they are portrayed.
The housing industry in Britain is despicable. Houses and apartments are seen as investment opportunities, rather than homes , even by some residents. In London , particularly, new areas get gentrified ( go upmarket ) and houses can almost double in value in a few months. Half of London is owned by foreign investors . It's a national disgrace.
It’s the glorious pursuit of profit. Foreign entities placing their money here with the knowledge that the price will always rise as other money laundering organisations will buy to convert their illegal money into accessible currency. This leaves the young local people in a hopeless position to ever buy property and locked into a life of exploiting rents. Hooray for the rich they just get richer as they exploit the poor.
Many properties in the USA were also 'forcefully' bought (swindled) by the government in order to build certain 'highways', bridges, fly overs, railways etc. It was a pretty common practice at one time in the usa as well.
I'm 60. As a child I lived in an East London basement flat that was dark, damp and infested with bed bugs and cockroaches. No bathroom and an outside toilet. Quite Dickensian! In the early 70's my family was moved into a modern high-rise. We thought it was heaven (well, it almost was heaven on the 17th floor!). After some years the awfully-labelled 'undeserving' were moved in - alcoholics, mentally ill, unemployed and troubled families. This documentary has actually educated me about my own life, by giving me an overview of the how-and-why. Thank you for your excellent heartfelt reaction, which is exactly like my own!
You are the first American who understands what is meant by an estate! It's confusing because the area surrounding a stately home in the UK is also called an estate and that's what usually puzzles your fellow US citizens!
I have to say I’m so lucky to have a 2 bedroom flat.I moved into my mother’s flat to help look after her after she had a couple of falls and was diagnosed with dementia.Luckily for me she had my name put on her lease.So I have a two bedroom flat, I have to pay bedroom tax of £78 per week but I consider myself very lucky as I get my rent paid for me as I have a lot of medical issues.The flat was a new build only 12 years ago. When I see people who’s rent is constantly increasing too the point where they become homeless it’s because of the greed of landlords.Thankfully I was allowed to put my name on the lease after a year of living here.We do have a load of flats on Sackville street and everyone I know calls it the smackville estate.
You say it’s impossible to provide housing for everyone, I’m sorry but that’s just absolute BS and echoing those in power who just don’t want to do it, those who profit from high demand and low stock. Providing homes is just down to numbers, training and effort, you’re not being asked to land on the sun and provide housing - that’s actually what you call impossible.
It's more complicated than that. First problem is where are you going to build the houses? They're already changing the law of what classifies as a green belt so they can build there next. Then you've got immigration. We can't build houses fast enough for just those coming into the country, nvm the native population that wants to move out their parent's house. You've also got a shortage of builders since a lot of people went to college and want tech jobs, or more cushy jobs rather than standing against nature building houses.
True. There’s a huge *huge* amount of ex-industrial and derelict land, “brownfield” sites that are crying out for development. The amount of replacements of council housing is criminally bad. And number of billionaires has been increasing year on year - people who suck out the money and scarper.
@@poppybellamy9718 It is literally impossible. With the amount of immigrants alone, you need to build a new house every 2-3 minutes to keep up. We're a small island too.
@pegaz6529 You are absolutely correct. I looked up the official figures only a few days ago. Government own figures estimate we are around 33,000 bricklayers short of being able to acheive the 300k new homes per year target Labour have set. (1.5 million split over a 5 year labour government). The overall shortage across all the trades is between 250k to 300k trades people short of being able to build 300k new houses per year. This includes chronic shortages of bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, gas fitters and even general labourers. People can talk about nimbys or redeveloping brown field sites or streamlining planning all they like but without those tradespeople to physically build the houses, the 300k new house per year target Labour have set will be nothing more than a fantasy figure.
I grew up on a council estate in Glasgow at the height of Thatcherism, things were dire and the only way for the working class to get through it was to band together and estates did help that
8:28 I grew up in Becontree, and I didn't think about it much at the time since I was literally a child, but yeah, there are no pubs in that area! You do have to trek quite a bit to get to an actual pub (compared to the usual UK standard of having a pub just down the road)
My childhood home was in an "estate." It was my most favored home! It had a front AND a back garden, a small carpark in front, nice neighbours, and high schools just around the corner. My nanna lived in a house she bought, again just around the corner. It is probably one that was previously bought under Right-To-Buy, but it was brilliant. It was just me, my sister, our mum, and our dog who lived there. Mum managed to get it quickly because her ex-stepdad had shoved a thin necklace in the front door lock of the previous house, and so she didn't feel safe. That was a good reason to get a council house. Mum didn't work, as she was caring for both me and my sister. Both of us went to a primary school that was down a steep hill and we needed to cross 2 roads, where the one directly outside the school needed a lollipop lady. There is also a nursery and a corner shop at the end of the street! We both went to one of high schools at the top of it, where we only needed to cross one road. It might have been busy with no lollipop lady, but we didn't get into any accidents. However, a girl from across the street had stolen my musical jewellery box, only to return it after she had broken it. But, it was fun living there! The council had all of our homes pebble dashed and new fences installed. The builders took such a shining to our dog that they'd take her in the mornings when they'd get their breakfast butties, and they'd buy her a breakfast butty too! The dog used to take herself to the corner shop and get herself a lollipop! Mum only realised she'd taken herself down because mum's go to the shop and get charged an extra 5p 🤣 loved Crystal ❤️
My parents lived in one of the new towns until I was 6. They then bought their first house. But they were exceptional, my father was a head teacher who then became a school inspector. and it was this career move that enabled him to buy a house.
If the government had tried to fix the broken people first, they may have worked better, but governments seem to lose their empathy when they get power and riches.
My son is currently living in his car - and he is a qualified experienced teacher. Things are bad. It used to be that women over 60 were the fastest growing homeless group in Australia, now it's agency nurses and supply teachers. 😢
I grew up in council housing - as someone else said - dragged myself up to get into uni and now support myself, but I am here for my tax - helping - being human- we need to do better as a society!
What indeed went wrong with Right to Buy..? I refer JJLA back to the video he watched about why we all hate Thatcher (i.e. Neoliberalism), whereby every asset the UK as a state owned was sold off at undervalue. Now going in 2025 the UK as a state has no stake in pretty much any aspect of this country and thus no way to generate capital other than taxation and quantitative easing.
Depends on the type of estate, the 1920's/30's or the 1960's/70's estate. We all know which we all prefer if we're being honest, in just an architectural point of view, alone
I think this is incorrect and unfair ! As someone who left school in 1984 and was turfed out and sleeping ruff the next day (something which has happened regularly since Thatcher sold the council houses to private landlords who turn out the tenants every six months or so when the value of their assets goes up and they feel they can make a better profit by selling ) I was often in council office's trying to get housing and was always told as a working age male I was not considered a priority and on the top of the priority list it was single mothers ! This was one of the reasons for a sudden rise in single teenage pregnancies ! The homeless problem he is trying to say caused the council house problem was a result of another Thatcher money saving policy which has also led to a shortage of prison cells , that policy was called " care in the community " and it involved shutting down the mental hospitals and without the facilities to treat them they ended up on the streets and in the prisons as well as finding their own ways to medically treat themselves which leads to a lot of the problems being discussed like the crime to fund it !
...and it doesn't stop there. The 'new' middle-class of the eighties, by now have reached old age. The problem is all the council elderly care facilities have been closed, leaving only expensive, private care homes. The elderly now have to sell the homes they purchased at the start of it all from the council so they can afford the care homes that are now private concerns opened to exploit the gaps left by the same councils that closed the public ones. Who buys these houses? Property developers.
Love u JJ:A Things are not always this depressing in the UK (Jimmy the Giant is epically brilliant he is a gouugeast lad and hilarious funny and intelligent!). but Americans visiting :London thing things are rosy, NO !!! love thatmyou read to this, was upset watching this a lot, a lot.... thanks for watching this mate, love you.
Ah, you have discovered - actually you probably missed him - Jago Hazzard. He makes quite niche videos on the history of mainly railways but also other history topics. They're quite geeky but he does have a gentle dry wit so please check him out. 3:18
Let's be honest, the problems are much the same across most of the UK now. Poverty, drugs, gangs, petty crime, broken infrastructure. The accents may be different but the complaints all sound alike.
And now we're effectively reverting back to slums with most properties being bought by landlords and having the rooms converted to create HMO's (house of multiple occupancy) and charging the rent of a flat for the floorspace of what is not much bigger than a room. Whilst at the same time building what they call "affordable housing" that isn't really affordable to most people which you only own a percentage of, the rest of the percentage still owned by the housing developers.
As a formerly homeless person, can I ask that you PLEASE DO NOT SAY "UNHOUSED." Calling a homeless person unhoused is like calling a murder victim "umalived." It does nothing to solve the problem, and on the contrary just softens the meaning. I have never met a homeless person, or formerly homeless person, who objected to being called homeless - they objected to BEING homeless. I feel like this term was invented by people who have never come close to experiencing homelessness, and are more concerned with polite terminology than with actually doing anything about the problem. If "homeless" is an ugly word, GOOD. It SHOULD be an ugly word. It's an ugly condition. OK, rant over.
The population of the UK increased in net terms by 900,000 people last year (1.3%) - getting on for a million. It is logistically impossible, according to the building trade, to build anything like that number of houses in the same timescale, even if the land and permission to build on it were available: the skills and materials are not there. Then there is the additional infrastructure requiredto go with them. This is an issue which is being studiously ignored by the major political parties but facts are facts.
Well, that's Tory Britain for you. Tory Starmer won't do anything to make things better. A big part of the problem is an education system designed to maintain Tory power.
Unfortunately, not just a British problem. Check out what happened in NY in the 50s and 60s. Or maybe, better not, because reading _The Power Broker_ can make one very very angry, even if like me you've never even been to the place
The chances of property prices falling are slim to none while supply is so incredibly low. There will always be a price floor, which is the amount you can squeeze out of people in rent and there will always be enough cash rich people to scoop up any properties that fall near or below that floor. We've now got a government seemingly set on increasing supply and they're met by opposition at every turn, not just from the people you'd expect either, it's often from the people who would benefit from it.
Government's in Australia use compulsory aquasition, they usually give you land value not property value. Land value is usually less than half but probably closer to a quarter of the property value, most governments have a no recourse clause in there compulsory acquisition laws.
JJLA - whilst I commend your desire to learn the minutiae of the UK's few strengths and many weaknesses, it is kinda 'weird'. I for one, would be keen to watch your reaction to some equivalent videos exploring the USA's circumstances.
The great british housing disaster documentary. One of the best into how the uk housing is fkd. Right to buy and the fact 80% of those 400.000 high rises got knocked down due to being unfit from the start and the building merchants and councillors lined their pockets.
If there's a discount on buying a council house, say 50% of the market value, then the council can only afford to make 1 new house for each 2 sold! So the result of the right to buy was a massive reduction in council housing by design. And then when they are on the free market they get snapped up by rich investors on the cheap, they also get to buy them without a mortgage and so get them for half the price it would be for someone borrowing from the bank - almost like a plan to make rich people richer! By almost of course I mean exactly.
In most European countries , apartment blocks will be no.higher than about 6 storeys , instead of the inhuman tower blocks built in.Britain . Surely this is the way forward.
Nope you cannot jump to the front , if the homeless list if you our unemployed 😮 and homeless people get put in temporary accommodation, I was homeless for years but I didn’t become a criminal .. not once , it’s not the living conditions that turns people to crime , it’s the people themselves
High rise flats always get a bad rap. Many are now renovated to a high standard and still at social rents with secure tenancies. Lived in our flat for 20 years. Never want to leave! Problems are usually caused by putting the wrong people in them. Have that stuck up condescending attitude to council tenants here and you’re not going to last long. In a strange reversal getting a council tenancy here is considered a lottery win compared to renting privately.
My elderly mother lives in a council flat where all tenants are over 50. It has a community room where they have social events, a concierge system and the residents all socialise together. It was a scheme introduced by our council about 40 years ago and works very well freeing up council houses for younger families.
'The road to hell is paved with good intentions' usually by local council run programs that do more harm than good. On thatcher...she was trying to incorporate a capitalist and self responsibility attitude as people on social welfare benefits was rising creating the under class society. Not saying what she did was good but she was deceived and double crossed along the way so anything good she tried to do wasn't implemented in the right way, hence now why she is hated so much. When will people learn...big government programs are not the answer and only create more problems in the long run. Especially todays politicians who are so morally bankrupt its unreal and yet people keep voting these people into power to fuck up our lives and living standards. In the words of thomas sowell...there aren't any solutions to problems, just trade offs. U should definitely check out his videos. A wise man of the ripe old age of 90 and has been researching and speaking on these issues for decades.
i got socal hosing low rent i dont live on a estate this is a gold mine if i won the lottery i would not give up my flat these plase ur rent wont go up if u get out of poverty u got rich ppl living in these places there rents still low as low as what i pay
We have a demographic that is always going to spoil everything good we try to do, at one end, and another wanting to exploit the unease at the other. Whoever invents a slow release integrity/compassion medication is going to be a savior. It doesn't matter what else a person thinks if there's a basic minimum of consideration. People can have their quirks and their profoundly individual way of living in the world - but get rid of the antisocial and inconsiderate element and criminality and corporate vampirism are no more. We don't see being a corporate vampire, or a criminal, as a mental illness though. There seem to be no plans to redesignate those motivations, either. Corporate greed is still lorded. There seems to be some movement on this, though, but I do wish we could have a side by side comparison of the brain function of a corporate vampire and a burglar. I suspect they would be very similar.
Just be ware not everything you see in films is true. Generally though things are bad and historically always have been, from the squalor of Prehistory through the Medieval plagues to the Industrial slums to modern day deprived areas all in one of the riches countries in the world huh, go figure eh!
Corruption in local councils housing committees was a given in 1960's & 70's Britain. Those high rise chicken coop abominations destroyed any community spirit and as 1 person in the video said essentially the architects and councillors would never live there. They are all substandard buildings, with the lowest cost materials, that means they are falling apart now, not like the 1930's brick built estate semis. But not one person was held accountable.
My parents came from council estates. They've since bought large, private houses and absolutely hate the idea of anyone getting the kind of help their parents got, especially anyone who doesn't look like them. Sums up the current (last 30+ years) of 'I'm alright Jack' UK attitude.
The biggest issue with 'Right to buy' was that local councils from whom the housing stock was bought were not ALLOWED to reinvest the money in building replacement housing. The money they received ended up back with central Government to pay for other stuff.
Many folk don't realise how ordinary folk have had to struggle for centuries, for very basic amenities , that we now consider to be human rights .
That's something that really worries me. People tend to be politically very apathetic (most of the time) because they don't realise that much of what they do have - in terms of rights- was hard won by earlier generations, not something they should just assume will always be there.
The council places were original built to give stability to working families so you did not have to worry about the roof over your head. Giving the children chances.
You're right.
Thatcher did put a stop to social housing, and sold off much of it , as she believed everyone SHOULD own their own homes, even though most couldn't afford to .
We are very fortunate to live in social housing on an old style secure tenancy. We have been in our house for 23 years and bought our 5 children up here. We both work full time in health and social care, we would never be able to afford a mortgage, but when our kids were young I was able to stay home to look after them. Most people in the area I live do have jobs and on the whole it's an ok place to live. Our house was built in the 1940s post WW2 and is a good size with a nice garden. The old post war houses are great quality housing and many of them are now in private ownership. Not all council estates are as bad as they are portrayed.
The housing industry in Britain is despicable.
Houses and apartments are seen as investment opportunities, rather than homes , even by some residents.
In London , particularly, new areas get gentrified ( go upmarket ) and houses can almost double in value in a few months.
Half of London is owned by foreign investors .
It's a national disgrace.
Mostly due to millions invading
@Salfordian Don't talk rubbish.
You just make yourself look a fool
It’s the glorious pursuit of profit. Foreign entities placing their money here with the knowledge that the price will always rise as other money laundering organisations will buy to convert their illegal money into accessible currency. This leaves the young local people in a hopeless position to ever buy property and locked into a life of exploiting rents. Hooray for the rich they just get richer as they exploit the poor.
Many properties in the USA were also 'forcefully' bought (swindled) by the government in order to build certain 'highways', bridges, fly overs, railways etc. It was a pretty common practice at one time in the usa as well.
still is
@@zo7034 And in some states private companies can do it, too.
I do not understsnd working class tories!
I'm 60. As a child I lived in an East London basement flat that was dark, damp and infested with bed bugs and cockroaches. No bathroom and an outside toilet. Quite Dickensian! In the early 70's my family was moved into a modern high-rise. We thought it was heaven (well, it almost was heaven on the 17th floor!). After some years the awfully-labelled 'undeserving' were moved in - alcoholics, mentally ill, unemployed and troubled families. This documentary has actually educated me about my own life, by giving me an overview of the how-and-why. Thank you for your excellent heartfelt reaction, which is exactly like my own!
You are the first American who understands what is meant by an estate! It's confusing because the area surrounding a stately home in the UK is also called an estate and that's what usually puzzles your fellow US citizens!
"Estate" is merely a shorthand for "housing estate" in that context so it would probably be clearer to non-UK viewers if the full term were used.
Compulsory purchase orders.
In the United States, this power is often known as eminent domain or condemnat and is used extensively
I have to say I’m so lucky to have a 2 bedroom flat.I moved into my mother’s flat to help look after her after she had a couple of falls and was diagnosed with dementia.Luckily for me she had my name put on her lease.So I have a two bedroom flat, I have to pay bedroom tax of £78 per week but I consider myself very lucky as I get my rent paid for me as I have a lot of medical issues.The flat was a new build only 12 years ago. When I see people who’s rent is constantly increasing too the point where they become homeless it’s because of the greed of landlords.Thankfully I was allowed to put my name on the lease after a year of living here.We do have a load of flats on Sackville street and everyone I know calls it the smackville estate.
You say it’s impossible to provide housing for everyone, I’m sorry but that’s just absolute BS and echoing those in power who just don’t want to do it, those who profit from high demand and low stock. Providing homes is just down to numbers, training and effort, you’re not being asked to land on the sun and provide housing - that’s actually what you call impossible.
It's more complicated than that. First problem is where are you going to build the houses? They're already changing the law of what classifies as a green belt so they can build there next. Then you've got immigration. We can't build houses fast enough for just those coming into the country, nvm the native population that wants to move out their parent's house. You've also got a shortage of builders since a lot of people went to college and want tech jobs, or more cushy jobs rather than standing against nature building houses.
True. There’s a huge *huge* amount of ex-industrial and derelict land, “brownfield” sites that are crying out for development. The amount of replacements of council housing is criminally bad. And number of billionaires has been increasing year on year - people who suck out the money and scarper.
@@pegaz6529just because it would be hard and people wouldn’t like it. doesn’t mean it is impossible
@@poppybellamy9718 It is literally impossible. With the amount of immigrants alone, you need to build a new house every 2-3 minutes to keep up. We're a small island too.
@pegaz6529 You are absolutely correct. I looked up the official figures only a few days ago.
Government own figures estimate we are around 33,000 bricklayers short of being able to acheive the 300k new homes per year target Labour have set. (1.5 million split over a 5 year labour government).
The overall shortage across all the trades is between 250k to 300k trades people short of being able to build 300k new houses per year.
This includes chronic shortages of bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, gas fitters and even general labourers.
People can talk about nimbys or redeveloping brown field sites or streamlining planning all they like but without those tradespeople to physically build the houses, the 300k new house per year target Labour have set will be nothing more than a fantasy figure.
Half of this is because the UK has moved closer to the US, in terms of society.
Thanks lads
I grew up on a council estate in Glasgow at the height of Thatcherism, things were dire and the only way for the working class to get through it was to band together and estates did help that
8:28 I grew up in Becontree, and I didn't think about it much at the time since I was literally a child, but yeah, there are no pubs in that area! You do have to trek quite a bit to get to an actual pub (compared to the usual UK standard of having a pub just down the road)
My childhood home was in an "estate." It was my most favored home! It had a front AND a back garden, a small carpark in front, nice neighbours, and high schools just around the corner. My nanna lived in a house she bought, again just around the corner. It is probably one that was previously bought under Right-To-Buy, but it was brilliant. It was just me, my sister, our mum, and our dog who lived there. Mum managed to get it quickly because her ex-stepdad had shoved a thin necklace in the front door lock of the previous house, and so she didn't feel safe. That was a good reason to get a council house. Mum didn't work, as she was caring for both me and my sister. Both of us went to a primary school that was down a steep hill and we needed to cross 2 roads, where the one directly outside the school needed a lollipop lady. There is also a nursery and a corner shop at the end of the street! We both went to one of high schools at the top of it, where we only needed to cross one road. It might have been busy with no lollipop lady, but we didn't get into any accidents.
However, a girl from across the street had stolen my musical jewellery box, only to return it after she had broken it. But, it was fun living there! The council had all of our homes pebble dashed and new fences installed. The builders took such a shining to our dog that they'd take her in the mornings when they'd get their breakfast butties, and they'd buy her a breakfast butty too! The dog used to take herself to the corner shop and get herself a lollipop! Mum only realised she'd taken herself down because mum's go to the shop and get charged an extra 5p 🤣 loved Crystal ❤️
My parents lived in one of the new towns until I was 6. They then bought their first house. But they were exceptional, my father was a head teacher who then became a school inspector. and it was this career move that enabled him to buy a house.
If the government had tried to fix the broken people first, they may have worked better, but governments seem to lose their empathy when they get power and riches.
Higher taxation of the rich and ultra rich would lead to enough money to build.
That'll never happen. Not even under the woeful government the UK has at present.
Now you're seeing the real UK we don't all live in castles and drink tea with crumpets
Sounds like a line from Lady Sovereign!.
Change is never allowed to come
My son is currently living in his car - and he is a qualified experienced teacher. Things are bad. It used to be that women over 60 were the fastest growing homeless group in Australia, now it's agency nurses and supply teachers. 😢
I am now aware that people can and do live in motor vehicles in the USA and Australia. This is something which is against the law in the UK.
I grew up in council housing - as someone else said - dragged myself up to get into uni and now support myself, but I am here for my tax - helping - being human- we need to do better as a society!
What indeed went wrong with Right to Buy..? I refer JJLA back to the video he watched about why we all hate Thatcher (i.e. Neoliberalism), whereby every asset the UK as a state owned was sold off at undervalue. Now going in 2025 the UK as a state has no stake in pretty much any aspect of this country and thus no way to generate capital other than taxation and quantitative easing.
I was dragged up in an estate the difference between that and me living in a small village is astronomical.. your worst living is a uk estate
Depends on the type of estate, the 1920's/30's or the 1960's/70's estate. We all know which we all prefer if we're being honest, in just an architectural point of view, alone
I too was dragged up on an estate in the late 70's and 80's.
I now live in a small North Wales town and totally agree. World of difference.
Oh please!
I grew up on a council housing estate best days of my life and most of the people who grew up with would agree 😎👍
Watch Beautiful Thing, a lovely film based on one of these estates
Really good video , and I'm English. Merry Christmas by the way .
I think this is incorrect and unfair ! As someone who left school in 1984 and was turfed out and sleeping ruff the next day (something which has happened regularly since Thatcher sold the council houses to private landlords who turn out the tenants every six months or so when the value of their assets goes up and they feel they can make a better profit by selling ) I was often in council office's trying to get housing and was always told as a working age male I was not considered a priority and on the top of the priority list it was single mothers ! This was one of the reasons for a sudden rise in single teenage pregnancies ! The homeless problem he is trying to say caused the council house problem was a result of another Thatcher money saving policy which has also led to a shortage of prison cells , that policy was called " care in the community " and it involved shutting down the mental hospitals and without the facilities to treat them they ended up on the streets and in the prisons as well as finding their own ways to medically treat themselves which leads to a lot of the problems being discussed like the crime to fund it !
The right to buy Council houses was a big mistake. In my opinion.
Thatcher was a 🐄.
...and it doesn't stop there. The 'new' middle-class of the eighties, by now have reached old age. The problem is all the council elderly care facilities have been closed, leaving only expensive, private care homes. The elderly now have to sell the homes they purchased at the start of it all from the council so they can afford the care homes that are now private concerns opened to exploit the gaps left by the same councils that closed the public ones. Who buys these houses? Property developers.
Love u JJ:A Things are not always this depressing in the UK (Jimmy the Giant is epically brilliant he is a gouugeast lad and hilarious funny and intelligent!). but Americans visiting :London thing things are rosy, NO !!! love thatmyou read to this, was upset watching this a lot, a lot.... thanks for watching this mate, love you.
Ah, you have discovered - actually you probably missed him - Jago Hazzard. He makes quite niche videos on the history of mainly railways but also other history topics. They're quite geeky but he does have a gentle dry wit so please check him out. 3:18
My only problem with this guy is ignoring the rest of the UK and concentrating on England only.
Let's be honest, the problems are much the same across most of the UK now. Poverty, drugs, gangs, petty crime, broken infrastructure. The accents may be different but the complaints all sound alike.
Half of Europe has a housing crisis.
And now we're effectively reverting back to slums with most properties being bought by landlords and having the rooms converted to create HMO's (house of multiple occupancy) and charging the rent of a flat for the floorspace of what is not much bigger than a room. Whilst at the same time building what they call "affordable housing" that isn't really affordable to most people which you only own a percentage of, the rest of the percentage still owned by the housing developers.
Some comments blaming Tories, but be honest, Labour are shite too. The two arsecheeks of government passing nothing but crap between them.
As a formerly homeless person, can I ask that you PLEASE DO NOT SAY "UNHOUSED." Calling a homeless person unhoused is like calling a murder victim "umalived." It does nothing to solve the problem, and on the contrary just softens the meaning. I have never met a homeless person, or formerly homeless person, who objected to being called homeless - they objected to BEING homeless. I feel like this term was invented by people who have never come close to experiencing homelessness, and are more concerned with polite terminology than with actually doing anything about the problem. If "homeless" is an ugly word, GOOD. It SHOULD be an ugly word. It's an ugly condition.
OK, rant over.
We had several tower blocks in our town, not no more they demolished them . Thatcher thought it would be a good idea to sell council houses.
The population of the UK increased in net terms by 900,000 people last year (1.3%) - getting on for a million. It is logistically impossible, according to the building trade, to build anything like that number of houses in the same timescale, even if the land and permission to build on it were available: the skills and materials are not there. Then there is the additional infrastructure requiredto go with them. This is an issue which is being studiously ignored by the major political parties but facts are facts.
Well, that's Tory Britain for you. Tory Starmer won't do anything to make things better. A big part of the problem is an education system designed to maintain Tory power.
they teach you to vote tory?
FYI. FCUK (French Connection UK) is/was an apparel brand.. not sure if it still exists.
Unfortunately, not just a British problem. Check out what happened in NY in the 50s and 60s. Or maybe, better not, because reading _The Power Broker_ can make one very very angry, even if like me you've never even been to the place
The chances of property prices falling are slim to none while supply is so incredibly low. There will always be a price floor, which is the amount you can squeeze out of people in rent and there will always be enough cash rich people to scoop up any properties that fall near or below that floor. We've now got a government seemingly set on increasing supply and they're met by opposition at every turn, not just from the people you'd expect either, it's often from the people who would benefit from it.
Government's in Australia use compulsory aquasition, they usually give you land value not property value. Land value is usually less than half but probably closer to a quarter of the property value, most governments have a no recourse clause in there compulsory acquisition laws.
It's the vibe. That's the Aussie recourse... iykyk
Have I just seen you in Better Call Saul as a doctor or am I tripping?
According to IMDB he was Dr Death in a 2018 episode of Better Call Saul. Search for John Jaret.
34:06 compulsory purchase says it should compensate you to leave you no worce or better-off of than beforehand. Like Eminent domain.
Though there is a difference between being fairly compensated for the value of the property and being given enough to live somewhere else
My mum bought her council house for £20,000 and sold it for£225,000 Kaching!!!!!
Morally wrong!! They should never sold them off!
My parents baught there council house under thachers right 2 by took them till mid 60s what if they didn't want to stay there?
JJLA - whilst I commend your desire to learn the minutiae of the UK's few strengths and many weaknesses, it is kinda 'weird'. I for one, would be keen to watch your reaction to some equivalent videos exploring the USA's circumstances.
how can people find brutalist concrete architecture depressing?? it looks amazing, harmonic and joyful to me! the most beautiful buildings ever!
The great british housing disaster documentary. One of the best into how the uk housing is fkd. Right to buy and the fact 80% of those 400.000 high rises got knocked down due to being unfit from the start and the building merchants and councillors lined their pockets.
If there's a discount on buying a council house, say 50% of the market value, then the council can only afford to make 1 new house for each 2 sold! So the result of the right to buy was a massive reduction in council housing by design. And then when they are on the free market they get snapped up by rich investors on the cheap, they also get to buy them without a mortgage and so get them for half the price it would be for someone borrowing from the bank - almost like a plan to make rich people richer! By almost of course I mean exactly.
In most European countries , apartment blocks will be no.higher than about 6 storeys , instead of the inhuman tower blocks built in.Britain .
Surely this is the way forward.
welcome to megacity one or give it a few thousand years Necromunda.
I love jimmys vide and am subscribed, but i prefer watching you watch them
Nope you cannot jump to the front , if the homeless list if you our unemployed 😮 and homeless people get put in temporary accommodation, I was homeless for years but I didn’t become a criminal .. not once , it’s not the living conditions that turns people to crime , it’s the people themselves
High rise flats always get a bad rap. Many are now renovated to a high standard and still at social rents with secure tenancies. Lived in our flat for 20 years. Never want to leave! Problems are usually caused by putting the wrong people in them. Have that stuck up condescending attitude to council tenants here and you’re not going to last long. In a strange reversal getting a council tenancy here is considered a lottery win compared to renting privately.
My elderly mother lives in a council flat where all tenants are over 50. It has a community room where they have social events, a concierge system and the residents all socialise together. It was a scheme introduced by our council about 40 years ago and works very well freeing up council houses for younger families.
'The road to hell is paved with good intentions' usually by local council run programs that do more harm than good.
On thatcher...she was trying to incorporate a capitalist and self responsibility attitude as people on social welfare benefits was rising creating the under class society. Not saying what she did was good but she was deceived and double crossed along the way so anything good she tried to do wasn't implemented in the right way, hence now why she is hated so much.
When will people learn...big government programs are not the answer and only create more problems in the long run. Especially todays politicians who are so morally bankrupt its unreal and yet people keep voting these people into power to fuck up our lives and living standards.
In the words of thomas sowell...there aren't any solutions to problems, just trade offs. U should definitely check out his videos. A wise man of the ripe old age of 90 and has been researching and speaking on these issues for decades.
So sad :(
i got socal hosing low rent i dont live on a estate this is a gold mine if i won the lottery i would not give up my flat these plase ur rent wont go up if u get out of poverty u got rich ppl living in these places there rents still low as low as what i pay
We have a demographic that is always going to spoil everything good we try to do, at one end, and another wanting to exploit the unease at the other.
Whoever invents a slow release integrity/compassion medication is going to be a savior. It doesn't matter what else a person thinks if there's a basic minimum of consideration. People can have their quirks and their profoundly individual way of living in the world - but get rid of the antisocial and inconsiderate element and criminality and corporate vampirism are no more. We don't see being a corporate vampire, or a criminal, as a mental illness though. There seem to be no plans to redesignate those motivations, either. Corporate greed is still lorded. There seems to be some movement on this, though, but I do wish we could have a side by side comparison of the brain function of a corporate vampire and a burglar. I suspect they would be very similar.
Brutalist architecture is exactly that, I don't really consider it 'modernism'.
I actually quite like some brutalist architecture.
Aubergine*
Love Luton x
Just be ware not everything you see in films is true. Generally though things are bad and historically always have been, from the squalor of Prehistory through the Medieval plagues to the Industrial slums to modern day deprived areas all in one of the riches countries in the world huh, go figure eh!
What happened? FOREIGNERS MOVED HERE
i dispute many thing in this video, its too complex to explain by typing out, its easier to explain speaking face to face with somone
Corruption in local councils housing committees was a given in 1960's & 70's Britain. Those high rise chicken coop abominations destroyed any community spirit and as 1 person in the video said essentially the architects and councillors would never live there. They are all substandard buildings, with the lowest cost materials, that means they are falling apart now, not like the 1930's brick built estate semis. But not one person was held accountable.
My parents came from council estates.
They've since bought large, private houses and absolutely hate the idea of anyone getting the kind of help their parents got, especially anyone who doesn't look like them.
Sums up the current (last 30+ years) of 'I'm alright Jack' UK attitude.