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People sometimes ask me why I bang on so much about the need for new housing. This. This is why. It is an academic preprint by five authors from three countries arguing - and I am not making this up - that we should build *no new housing at all* (1/?) osf.io/preprints/soca

12:56 AM · Oct 4, 2024

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David Watson 🥑

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The paper focuses on social housing in England, but as a case study of why - to save the planet - we should halt 'social housing construction' and 'construction of market homes' to tackle 'the housing crisis' (their scare quotes), and simply upgrade the stock we have.

Remarkably, it does not mention: - 1.29 million people on social housing waiting lists - Record levels of net migration - Concentration of that in areas of highest housing demand - House price rises - Household structures - The words 'population', 'migration' or 'waiting lists'

As I've argued before, 'degrowth' is the ultimate example of privilege - affluent middle-class intellectuals telling other people they can't have the nice things. This article proves that point beyond doubt. Whoever is doing the peer review should have a very, very strong word.

(Thanks to @

for flagging. And yes, I did check the pub date wasn't April 1.)

PS And yes, it also makes the familiar arguments that all we need to do to solve the housing crisis is reallocate our housing supply according to the authors' wisdom...

Also from the lead author. We don't just need no more houses. We need to shrink the ones we have, stupid!!!

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I think I've made the connection. One of these academics is who Phineas Harper claimed to have spoken to at the Bartlett who confirmed building homes would have no effect on prices, isn't it.

Sadly not

In other words we should all live in HMOs to save the planet?

Yup

We should study a moratorium on cell division for the study authors

Begs for the Orwell quote: "some ideas are so stupid you can only get the intellectuals to believe in them"

can't argue with a causal loop diagram though

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@Tweets_of_Oscar

Why do they use the term "moratorium"? Are they arguing specifically for a temporary ban on new housing?

Richard Templeman

@RichardTemplem2

Also fails to mention that having a guest bedroom (or, heaven forfend, two) is not an immoral act of sociopathy.

"support dialogue around alternatives to the growth-dependant paradigm." So just another talking shop then. 🤦‍♂️

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@RWillmore86339

Start a house building company and start building houses . Or you can continue waffling on Twitter

@MartinW93129709

The worst thing is, they present as "evidence" what people who agree with them say. They take no evidence from those who disagree. It's like testing a new drug & completely ignoring those who are killed by it in your results.

How about deporting the millions of people who shouldn't be here?

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Frances Kneller

@FrancesKneller

Are the details of the four participating Housing Associations known? And have they supported these findings/ views or gong to produce a minority report?

So the HAs quoted are mostly talking about the implications of stopping building for *them*, and some say yeah, it might make it easier for us to focus on existing stock, streamline operations. They don't seem to have been asked 'what if we just stop building houses full stop?'

Have academics always been quite this stupid and selfish?

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