Priced Out: Life on the Edge of Regeneration

I believe that one of the key things we could do about the current housing crisis is start to see it as a home-ing crisis.

 

The problem is we've lost sight of houses as homes.

 

Now we have properties being built for profit, not people. But if we go back to basics, housing is a human right. If you don't have a home, you simply can't thrive. If we saw houses as homes, we'd start a revolution.

 

Of course I know that for everyone to have a home in east London, we need to build. So a solution could be if the council were to tax property developers a percentage of monetary value of each new build, or guarantee a small percentage of the properties that they construct have to be social housing. That way these developers are actually contributing back to the community as opposed to just being about profit.

 

A sign of a truly evolved society is how it looks after its most vulnerable.

 

What other solutions can you think of?