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Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks
Normally... a free market fix those issues before it starts being a problem... In Britain... uh sorry in England it will not even be fixed after it became a problem.
It means your housing market is being manipulated.
Let's not pretend that housing prices were normal let's say before freedom of movement.  |
You're not getting it. To keep up with demand, we would have to build half a million homes a year. Twice as many as in the whole of Sunderland, let's say - the city in England that set the tone for the referendum when it declared its result early on Friday morning.
Not just once, but EVERY YEAR.
We can't build houses that fast. There just isn't the land available. We would have to build them on open fields, turning the countryside of England into urban concrete. Neither is there the money available. To get them built, money has to be borrowed, whether it's government money or private - putting the country further into debt which we are trying to get out of.
It's not just houses but schools and hospitals, roads and railways. It just can't be done as fast as the population is growing. It's too simplistic to say it can be solved by a free market. Things have to be planned and coordinated. We are building more infrastructure but we can't do it quickly enough for all the people who want to come here.