There are almost 720,000 empty homes in England. And many more on social housing waiting lists - so why aren't we better using one to help solve the other, and is it a case of a missed opportunity?
Great, I’m glad we agree that we should house as many people as possible! So, obviously, you don’t support this bad idea that wouldn’t achieve that. Right?
The policy would fail for numerous reasons, some of which we have already discussed, more of which you can find in the article I linked, and none of which you have even attempted to refute, except to argue that your chosen policy would be less bad under a hypothetical non capitalist economic system. Which, maybe, I guess? But it still wouldn’t work, under any system, because ‘empty homes’ are not the cause of the problem. Even a system based straight up on immediate need would require some empty homes.
Great, I’m glad we agree that we should house as many people as possible! So, obviously, you don’t support this bad idea that wouldn’t achieve that. Right?
The policy would fail for numerous reasons, some of which we have already discussed, more of which you can find in the article I linked, and none of which you have even attempted to refute, except to argue that your chosen policy would be less bad under a hypothetical non capitalist economic system. Which, maybe, I guess? But it still wouldn’t work, under any system, because ‘empty homes’ are not the cause of the problem. Even a system based straight up on immediate need would require some empty homes.