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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · Apr 16

🚨 We’re hiring!

If you're passionate about fixing the housing crisis and want real impact — whether through policy or campaigns — we want to hear from you.

Help us build a future with more homes for all 🏘️👇

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 1d

Read the full piece about the cause and solutions to unaffordable housing here:

The cause of the affordability crisis - YIMBY Alliance

Britain’s housing crisis is, at root, a shortage in the places people need to live. That is why prices sit far above what it costs to build, why young people delay forming households, and why rents are so high. Tax tweaks could free up some extra homes, but they cannot deliver the volume of new […]

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 1d

Our article outlines why building more homes and better places in high demand areas is the key to fixing affordability.

It details how to build more homes with popular support, and offers low-friction, high-impact reforms the government could introduce.

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 1d

The shortage of homes directly drives unaffordability in areas of high demand.

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 1d

The shortage of the homes we need helps explain why:

- The house price-to-income ratio in England has reached 8x.
- Private rent takes 36.3% of income nationally and 41.6% in London.

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 1d

Britain has not built enough homes. If we had built at the same rate as our European peers, we would have 4.3 million more homes.

For both private and social homes, our housebuilding rate collapsed after the mid-20th century and has never returned to the levels that once kept prices in check.

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 1d

🚨TODAY: A new article on why homes in the UK are so unaffordable.

Following a recent FT article that critiqued the need to build more homes, our latest piece sets out exactly why new homes are the solution to the housing crisis.

Here are the key takeaways 🧵

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 3d

As well as being slow, the process of buying a home can often be confusing, with important information on properties often being insufficient.

Respond to the material information in property listings consultation to help change this!

Material information in property listings

This consultation seeks views on guidance to make important property information available upfront for home buyers and sellers.

www.gov.uk

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 3d

The process of buying a home is long, stressful and sluggish. The average sale takes 120 days, and 1 in 3 sales fall through.

Respond to the home buying and selling reform consultation to help speed up the process!

Home buying and selling reform

This consultation seeks views on proposals to improve the home buying and selling process.

www.gov.uk

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 3d

NEW TODAY: two public government housing consultations have opened

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 13d

Read about it here:

Chelmer Waterside £250m housing push goes to market

Developers invited to bid for one of Essex’s biggest regeneration projects

www.constructionenquirer.com

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 13d

NEW! A 6.3-hectare brownfield site with the capacity for over 1,000 new homes and vibrant community spaces has entered the market stage.

Once Chelmsford Council finds a development partner, the site will be one of the biggest homebuilding projects in Essex.

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 16d

NEW! This week, the High Court has thrown out the legal challenge against a new town in East Herts.

10,000 new homes (2,300 of which will be affordable), seven primary and two secondary schools, and over £1.3bn of investment will now go ahead!

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 20d

Fed up of unaffordable housing?

Get involved:

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Get Involved - YIMBY Alliance

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 20d

Read more about the affordability statistics here:

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Housing Purchase Affordability, UK - Office for National Statistics

Ratios of house prices to annual disposable household incomes, for countries of the UK, English regions, and local authorities in England and Wales.

www.ons.gov.uk

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 20d

To see how affordability has worsened over time, watch this quick video below:

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 20d

Shocking affordability news:

This week, the ONS published new housing affordability data.

The ONS found that in London, the average home was UNAFFORDABLE for ANY household income decile.

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 20d

Want to learn more about how we can build more homes and better places?

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 20d

This consultation is a chance for local residents to shape the Longmoor Village plans — and help turn a disused site into a thriving new neighbourhood for South Bristol.

Read more here:

Longmoor Village: Consultation for £165m Ashton Gate housing

Plans for the site close to Bristol City's stadium include 510 new homes.

www.bbc.co.uk

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 20d

Building new Brownfield homes in Bristol, one of the UK’s most expensive cities, is vital in easing the housing crisis.

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 20d

New homes in Bristol?

Consultation has opened on plans for 510 new homes on a major Brownfield site!

30% will be affordable — and proceeds will help unlock the new Ashton Gate Sports and Convention Centre.

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 21d

Would you like to write the next YIMBY Alliance article?

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 21d

New from us:

A volunteer's blog on what Dublin, London & California can teach us about fixing housing — and why granny flats could be a powerful tool for infill homebuilding.

Read it here:

Lessons from the housing crisis in Ireland - YIMBY Alliance

This is a guest piece from Connor Holbert. Connor is a working professional who lives in London. He has also lived in the United States, Mexico, and Ireland, personally witnessing how housing scarcity affected each country. I moved to Dublin in autumn 2022. By then, the housing shortage had already spread across much of the […]

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 23d

Details here:

Panter Hudspith Architects |

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YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 23d

An incredible transformation of a High Street in Southwark:

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance.org · 27d

It was clear from the discussion that poor housing options and high costs are a huge burden on workers – robbing them of their pay, pushing them into long-commutes and blocking them from new work opportunities.