House Prices to Rise: Is the Government Doing Enough to Make Housing Affordable?

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The Times recently reported that average UK house prices could reach around £440,000 by 2030. Do you think the government is doing enough to make housing affordable?

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00:00It's a good point because you don't want to take away the green spaces. I'm from London

00:06and there's always a push for encroaching onto that greenbelt around, which I don't

00:13agree with. I think we've got to use the space that we have wisely. But then again, you do

00:20want affordable housing.

00:22For young people who are looking to own houses, it is getting very expensive and more people

00:27are having to rent.

00:28In terms of how much it costs might be the pressing issue, maybe not the available amounts

00:34of space.

00:35I saw a stat the other day that the amount of houses we've built pre-Margaret Thatcher

00:41and post-Margaret Thatcher is just not enough. We have the land and I think it's important

00:46to preserve green space, but I think we can do that in a way that also there's more houses

00:52because our population is growing and the problem isn't a growing population. We need

00:57a growing population in order to support our services.

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