The government's been more than happy to bail out banks to the tune of $2.26*tn, yet they have thousands of people on the streets who are homeless.
Imagine if they took 1 percent of that whopping £1.5tn. They could, at let's say £80k per new built flat (bit more expensive for a house), build at least 187,000 new flats.
But that would hit the housing market, and people would lose money they've sunk into treating housing as just another commodity. But there'd be no homelessness! Everyone, or at least nearly everyone in the country, would finally have a roof over their heads. It'd be cheaper than constantly having soul destroying meeting after soul destroying meeting carping on that there's just not enough housing, what are we to do.
Who know's whole new towns with new infrastructure, new jobs (the new tech's) could be created, and with the mistakes learned from the disasters of the past, perhaps they could be avoided this time around.
Imagine 187,000 new flats, with the fastest easily upgraded broadband service, excellent public transport links, excellent community facilities, excellent green spaces, the latest environmentally efficient technologies, recycling, solar heating, solar powering, if done properly these could be feeding electricity back into the grind, and for how the old pollution ridden cities could be.
But as vision is the one thing seemingly lacking in today's uk, it'll probably only happen when things really freeze over.
Oh yes, how much would 187k homes contribute towards council tax payments alone per year? £172mn.
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