Introducing our comprehensive update: Below is the new Housing policy for the British Democrats, setting out our approach to key housing challenges.
Housing – Homes for Britons
The ultimate purpose of any Nationalist housing policy is not merely expanding home ownership but to ensure ALL Britons have a roof over their heads. Moreover, if we are serious about increasing the native British population, then young families definitely need a good home they can afford!
Mass immigration has obviously put an incredible strain on Britain’s housing stock. Homes, whether mortgaged or rented, are subject to extremely limited availability.
When our borders are finally closed and mass deportations commence, this aspect of immigration, i.e. the devastating effect on housing supply, will end.
Nonetheless, fundamental problems remain with Britain’s housing policies. The issue is twofold. The regular routine of constantly rising house prices and interest rates means a family, a couple, or an individual needs a decent, consistent income even to step foot on the housing ladder. Loss of income often means loss of home. The prices in Britain’s housing market have been seriously out of control since the late 1980s. British people, particularly young British families, need a home not just as a sound financial investment but also for reasons of independence from family and the private sovereignty of actually owning their own property.
The second part of the problem is the deliberate elimination of Public Housing. The mass sale of council homes, which really started in 1980, has dramatically reduced the number of dwellings available for people who want to rent or can only afford to rent. Former council homes were public property, in trust, to the whole nation. For the benefit of ALL Britons, if they needed them. Substituting the former public housing programme for the jungle of private landlords has been a disaster for ordinary people, causing stress, debt, homelessness, and it has been greatly detrimental to public finances (Housing Benefit). Greedy landlords (often foreign) have raked in billions by charging exorbitant rents inevitably paid by Housing Benefit. Even a working couple often has to claim Housing Benefit to afford a very high rent.
If Britain is to survive (and prosper), our people (native Britons) must reproduce. They can only reproduce in sufficient numbers if they have a secure roof over their heads, whether it’s through mortgages or rent.
A population must be adequately housed. The British Democrats will resolve this crucial issue. Through acts of political will, a situation will be created whereby our people can pay their mortgage or rent. The following are the policies ensuring British Homes For British People!
A government department will be established called NATIONAL COMMUNITY HOUSING (British Homes)
Home Ownership. Muslim families often successfully purchase domestic properties through Islamic banks. In their culture, usury is forbidden and strictly prohibited. An Islamic bank only applies service charges from which a small profit can be acquired. Their method of finance means they promote the welfare, security and expansion of their people!
(A) Therefore, we need Municipal Banks throughout Britain that can provide the necessary finance so our people can purchase homes. With special emphasis and support for young families. An opportunity to obtain their own property and pay back the debt realistically, without stringent interest rates!
(B) The government, through National Community Housing, will form partnerships with top British building companies, certainly those who have a reputation for quality building work, efficiency, timed schedules and reasonable prices. A programme of building properties (which the government would sell) and rental properties (for the public sector) would begin.
Municipal banks will enable British people to have the chance to buy these new homes. The building companies would be entitled to a segment of the rents from the public housing properties. In addition, the long-term contracts the government would issue to said companies would contain various concessions and financial advantages. This would guarantee the enthusiasm for these companies to build British homes. The remainder of rents would be collected by the local authorities for admin, repairs and emergencies. These councils will, again, thus have a valuable source of income.
The interconnection (partnership) between government, councils, building companies and ordinary people will create a mechanism that means each element gets what it wants. Similar to operations of this nature in Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
(C) Britain, though a small island, has plenty of Brownfield sites! New buildings could be commenced on obvious wasteland, derelict buildings, unused office blocks, and underused car parks, etc. These will be used for our comprehensive house-building programme. Some of these sites will be acquired for government use by Compulsory Purchase Orders if necessary.
(D) Utilisation of Brownfield sites will ensure the protection of our precious heritage of Britain’s countryside. Preserve our Green Belt!
Public Housing. We prefer our people to own their own homes, but also recognise that millions of Britons will still need public housing. This is not about profits and the ‘needs of the market’; this is about essential shelter for our people.
New Public Housing properties will charge rents that reflect regional salaries and local conditions. This will vastly reduce the nation’s colossal Housing Benefit bill.
Where the private housing market still operates, rent controls will be applied in some areas. Housing is not a consumer choice that you have control over (i.e., buying a pair of shoes); it’s something people must have.
Private landlords have been charging ridiculous rents for decades now. Look at studio flats in central London circa. £1500.00 per month for a room with a toilet/bathroom and a kitchen sink! Landlords will have to reduce their rents to sensible levels. They cannot expect endless subsidies via the British Treasury (Housing Benefit) to feed their vile avarice!
Homelessness – A disgraceful situation more reminiscent of Victorian Britain than 21st-century Britain. This misery has been greatly exacerbated since the 1980s and made worse by mass immigration and the treason and neglect of establishment politicians. Specialist local units will tackle, through various measures, the four worst categories of ‘street sleepers’ – the mentally ill, those who have a substance addiction and youngsters, often the tragic victims of domestic abuse. We will expand emergency accommodation. We look after ALL of our people, especially those who are really unfortunate.
Architecture – From the 1960s onwards, various brands of liberal degenerates, Marxist freaks and other shady ‘fast buck’ characters inflicted upon the British landscape, architecture not just ugly and soulless, but something seemingly designed to destroy the human spirit. Whether it’s a concrete ‘giant elephant’ or a twisted ‘glass and steel’ monstrosity, so-called Avant Garde, modern architects have condemned our people to living in these hideous building apparitions. Much of the fault lies with lazy, incompetent, and corrupt local councillors who wave through most schemes.
A British Democrats government will reclaim the fine architectural traditions of the ancient world and European styles before the 20th century.
Architecture in tune with Man and Nature!
Regarding large-scale constructions, the local authority (as well as the national government) should be compelled to consult the relevant local population over the design/redesign. Their views must be sought.
Summary – National Community Homes (British Homes) will operate, initially, as a nationwide concern. However, powers will eventually be devolved to local authorities (on a county or town basis). Municipal banks specially created with a singular purpose (housing) will liaise directly with the central government for this vital national project!
Finance – The building of new homes and acquisition of old ones will be paid for out of general public expenditure. There will be no interest element. The government will create the necessary credit, which will cause microscopic levels of inflation, but these are tiny compared to the impact of borrowing from international finance. The new credit will be absorbed into the wealth creation of building/acquiring homes for Britons.
Private Purchase – Public Rental – Government credit will enable young British families to purchase their own homes and realistically pay for them, without financial stress.
Millions will have the opportunity to rent (again) a home through public housing. The rents will reflect local conditions, i.e. salary, employment, etc. This will mean it will be easy to pay the rent!
There will be a massive decrease in Britain’s Housing Benefits bill, now 30 billion pounds! Housing Benefit is the single biggest item for the Treasury!
The reintroduction of Public Housing will eventually provide revenues for local authorities and revive local democratic control of housing through councillors, not private landlords.
Private Landlords – Always a place for them, but why should the British state sponsor their essentially business purposes? As stated previously, Housing Benefit is now £30 billion. Therefore, Local Housing Allowances will be reduced to a local rent that reflects local conditions, salaries, and the actual ability to pay. If someone wishes to pay exorbitant private rents, that is their business.
However, if private landlords are unhappy with our reform of Local Housing Allowances, they have the option of reducing rents (if they are too high!) or selling their properties.
Homelessness – A budget will be set aside to ensure no Briton is sleeping on the streets. Specialist teams and hostels will ensure the real homeless, our people, are protected!
Care Homes – Clear-cut and unarguable. Elderly Care homes and any other private care homes will come back under public control. Care Homes is not a business; they exist to look after our people.
‘Care in the Community’ will be scrapped. Dangerous, mentally ill individuals will be sent to and remain in secure units for their safety and the general public’s.
Architecture & Brownfield Sites – Beauty comes from nature. Ugly, concrete ‘new art’ comes from the brutalist styles of the former Soviet Eastern Europe. This contrived vandalism will not be tolerated. To preserve our Green Belt, we will utilise all manner of Brownfield sites, but we will also introduce the countryside to the inner city. Trees, parks, canals and gardens will be integrated with all new developments.
CONCLUSION: National Community Housing (British Homes) will ensure that housing is not just about profits but also about enabling the indigenous population to reproduce themselves in family units with secure mortgages and protected (rental) tenancies.
We will treat the housing issue as an ‘operation of war’. Many will own their own homes, but we will always retain a sufficient stock of Public Housing for everyone (the biggest downfall of privatisation is that you can only sell something once!).
The nation is the ‘family of families’—a giant family!
Let us get Britons off the streets, out of hostels, away from ‘sofa surfing’ and hopeless, long housing lists—British Homes for British People. Our Nation Is Your Home!
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