Leeds reflects on housebuilding

National World - LocalTV

The government wants to build 1.5m new homes by 2029 but 57% of people have no confidence we'll meet targets. How do you feel about the need for housing - will 1.5m homes cut it or is it not enough? How confident are you we'll meet targets?

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00:00One of my children is living in a rented house, paying, effectively paying somebody's pension.

00:06It concerns me how she'll get a deposit for her own house. So, yeah, I do think we need to build

00:14a lot more houses. I find it quite sad that whenever you see new builds there seem to be

00:21three, four bed luxury homes which are obviously more profitable for the developers than

00:27smaller affordable homes. I know possibly, you know, the problem is also that we're building

00:33on land which is currently not built upon and that's maybe a problem in terms of the environment

00:39and, I don't know, I mean the amount of space that people live in has increased quite dramatically

00:45over the past, say, hundred years and, I don't know, maybe we should kind of live in slightly

00:50less space, each person less space, live a bit closer together and that would be better,

00:54there'd be easier, there'd be more space to go around and it'd be better for the environment.

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