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Almost 10m UK households living in ‘cold, damp, poorly insulated homes’
(www.theguardian.com)
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The "34% of all households" is actually more of a shocking figure than the 10 million.
A third of our houses are too shit.
I'd believe it, I'm in Ireland but we've the same house type and similar regulations and such. Fact is my house was lovely growing up but there was always a towel handy to wipe the windows down and cleaning the ceiling in the bathroom was part of the day to day cleaning.
Unless it is a recently expanded town or a new build one off house the quality is sub par. Biggest cities are where the real numbers are, a housing shortage gives little reason to improve your shit hole century old terraced house you've rented out for 3k a month.
You say that as if new builds are built to a proper standard.
They undoubtedly are like, they're snags and issues and nothing is perfect but regulations have come a long way.
To be fair, we've still got some single glazing in the back half of the house, and it's always freezing in the kitchen in the morning, so my house, which I consider to be "quite fancy", is in fact "too shit" on this scale.
At least in places where rents are £3k per month (implying a house price of ~£600k), owner-occupiers (and the mythical responsible landlord) can actually get the work done knowing they'll get it back when they sell. On a £100k terrace oop north (~£500 rent per month), house prices can't rise enough to cover the cost of £10-15k spent on insulation.
There are a lot of terrible properties in London because the economy has renters over a barrel. But there are a lot of terrible properties elsewhere because London has the rest of the country over a barrel.
Good god. Your home must smell like mold
No it was a big house but the en suite had a ventilation issue and windows were aluminium single glazed.