Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 21/07/20261) Liberalise planning, remove greenbelts, relax design standards and build masses more houses. Pros - a lasting solution. Cons - takes decades and likely to cost political capital. 110
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 21/07/20262) Massive public sector housebuilding programme. Pros - creates homes we can directly allocate to homeless people. Cons - takes decades and costs are absolutely massive (£100-200k subsidy per new home) 211
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 21/07/20263) Create hostels and night shelters. Pros - quickly provides a better option than street sleeping for rough sleepers. Cons - they quickly get full up of 'bedblockers' with nowhere to move to, so you'd need to keep expanding (expensive) provision every year. 210
Vivienne @viviennesoton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026And those homes need to be protected from Right to Buy otherwise they would end up in the hands of the landlords who have been responsible for much of the homelessness. Although there already is a mechanism for keeping temporary housing out of RTB. 100
