‘Up s*** creek’ Kirstie Allsopp's furious rant at government over affordable homes failure

express.co.uk:

Kirstie Allsopp urged the government to support the building of new homes via an impassioned Twitter plea today.The Location, Location, Location presenter expressed her discontent with the housing situation, which comes amid a cost of living crisis, and lamented that the country was "up s*** creek".BBC property expert Henry Pryor helped to ignite the debate by posting a headline stating that neighbours could now get the right to vote on housing plans, such as adding extensions to a property.He added: "Rip up those Govt.

new home targets.There’s no way we’re going to build 300k new homes a year now."Kirstie retweeted it, before exclaiming: "Can someone explain to the Government how supply and demand works please?"Because if they don’t support the building of better housing, far faster, prices will continue to rise and we will all be f***ed."She also added in a subsequent tweet: "The rise in the average age of purchase of a first home, followed by the rise in the average age of having a first child will have a profound affect on British society for centuries. (Sic)"Although this isn’t entirely linked to housing it is a huge factor."She dove further into the housing debate with follower @djmenaceuk, who suggested that high-rise housing schemes should involve villages instead of already over-crowded towns and cities.Responding to her tweet, he claimed: "Housing is being built, just the wrong type.

Welwyn Garden City is becoming a high rise jungle, if the developers get their way. None of it planned properly just lining their pockets."He added: "We have nothing over 3 stories.

Now they're trying to push through 9 storied blocks all over the place."The irony being that the surrounding villages, which have a ton of unused.