Housing and rent prices are out of reach for most UK citizens.

If you want to get a mortgage you must pay a 10% deposit in order to be accepted by the bank lending you the money. For example, if the property you wanted to get a mortgage for was priced at £500,000 the deposit would be £50,000 which is out of reach for most people. This is because our housing market has been on the globalist housing market for decades.

Rich billionaires from around the world including the Middle East, China, USA, India, and Russia have and continue to buy up thousands of properties. Buying property and land in the UK is seen as a very good investment for these international billionaires.

Foreign Investors = Higher Prices

This has pushed UK housing prices through the roof, making them far too expensive for ordinary people and has forced the UK public to compete on the global stage with billionaires with only one winner.

Many of the properties are never even occupied and are treated purely as investments with the value of the property always rising. Many UK council flat tenants have also purchased their flats on the right to buy scheme and have then sold the property to these mega rich foreign investors.

These foreign investors then rent the properties out to the UK public for £400 a week just for a one-bedroom ex council flat. Foreign ownership of properties in England and Wales has trebled since 2010 from 88,000 to 250,000 in November 2021 (source: Centre for Public Data).

The Way Forward

We are in a major housing crisis because of globalism and immigration. We need to nationalise our housing market to give ordinary UK citizens a fair chance in life.

We need to set a reasonable future date for all foreign owners of property and land to sell their assets by that date.

If they fail to sell to a UK citizen by the date set, the UK Government will purchase the assets back from them at the price they originally paid for it unless that price has dropped, in which case it will be purchased at the going rate. A law will be passed making it illegal from that date for non-UK citizens to own property or land in the UK.

Tackling the housing crisis

‘If net migration to the UK is allowed to continue at the present record level of around 600,000 per year, the UK population is projected to grow by more than 15 million by 2046 – far surpassing the level of 80 million before mid-century. It is estimated that this would result in the need to build between six and eight million more homes – equal to between 15 and 18 more cities the size of Birmingham.’ migrationwatchuk.org, June 2023.

With record levels of immigration such as these increasing the demand for housing, it is no wonder that property and rent prices have soared and that there is now a shortage of affordable homes in the country and it wouldn’t be unreasonable to argue that there is not a housing crisis but in fact an immigration crisis. Ending both permanent settlement immigration and the policy of accepting refugees for citizenship and housing (both NHPUK Policy) will relieve some of the pressure on the housing market, although some development will of course be required as there is now a desperate need for affordable accommodation throughout the country due to immigration and insufficient house building in previous years.

Housing provision, or to be more accurate, the lack of it at an affordable price is a topic that intersects with many different but nonetheless interconnected areas of national and local policy making. Therefore it must be held in mind that some of the following proposals have the potential to bring remedy within a fairly short period of time, whereas others will take many years to be effective in addressing what, in our opinion, is one of the worst betrayals enacted upon the UK population by the self-serving globalist political establishment in the UK, that being the failure to provide an affordable and secure home for the very building blocks of nations themselves, our families.

NHPUK Housing Policies:

End permanent settlement immigration and end accepting refugees for citizenship and housing.

According to the Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey in 2019, 65% of the additional households created in the UK since 1995 for whom birth place data was recorded, have been headed by a person born overseas. This statistic is one of many which clearly shows the extent to which recent levels of permanent settlement immigration have impacted our housing market and with consecutive governments over recent decades struggling to add 0.6% annually to our housing stock via new builds, it’s no surprise that demand and thus prices have been kept high. The scandalous failing inherent in all of this is that many young British couples have been prevented from getting a first rung on the housing ladder, let alone an affordable rented roof over their heads, in order to raise their families. Ending permanent settlement immigration and ending the practice of accepting refugees for citizenship and housing is therefore a key policy of The National Housing Party UK which seeks to take the first firm but necessary steps required to effectively address our housing crisis. An issue which has negatively affected so many and which likewise has had so many detrimental knock-on effects to our pursuit of a thriving nation and a contented society.

Nationalise the residential housing market with permanent prevention of foreign ownership of land and residential property in the UK.

Shelter is necessary for survival and a house fulfils this fundamental human need for all of us. However, to address the current unaffordable costs of housing, we must begin the long process of returning our thinking back to this original value proposition and move away from expectation of financial gain through investment in the housing market. This is of course a long term goal and one which will have to be done slowly and with consideration to the wider economic effects of smoothing out the speculative housing bubble. However an achievable first step on that journey would be to remove UK housing from the global foreign property investor market, where large private equity players and even other countries look for returns in a market with profits controlled by easily manipulated factors of supply and demand. A policy preventing foreign ownership of UK land and residential property would at least reduce the potential volume of capital available to pump the UK market and thus it would initiate a manageable return to proportionate valuations of British homes for the UK population when considered against their average salary levels. It must not be underestimated just how quickly the disparity between average annual wage and average house price has grown in the UK. In just 50 years from the mid 1970s we have seen a home go from costing 4.1 times the average salary to an average of 8.8 times today. An edificial testament to the lack of nationalist protectionism for the British people at the hands of inflation generating economic mismanagement, corporate profiteering and real value wage suppression. The latter caused in no small part by the open borders mass movement of cheap labour into our country, which has served only to transfer the extra work that we now have to do in order to survive into greater profits for those behind the policy.

Protection of our countryside and greenbelt areas.

We will always prioritise brown field redevelopment, but as a last resort will use small parcels of land adjacent to towns and villages (providing they are not currently being used for agriculture) to build essential social housing to fulfil local need.

Length of proven family connection to the local area will be added to the housing list point priority system.

Given that all other factors are equal, then should the circumstance arise whereby two people have been waiting for an equal amount of time on the social housing register, the person with the longest proven unbroken line of generational family residence within the area in question will be selected. All other existing priority point metrics will remain unchanged within the system, those under emergency care from social services, families already with children and young couples wishing to start families will all retain priority status. The National Housing Party UK campaign to end all national and local authority refugee settlement programs.

Establishment of a state owned not for profit construction company to deliver rentable social housing at the lowest price point possible.

This policy would be put into place through the government purchase of an existing construction company who would then be tasked to undertake the one specific role of building social housing stock to be rented at the most affordable prices achievable. All other house building including affordable shared ownership schemes would remain within the open market competitive private sector.

End the right to buy social housing.

The right to buy scheme has proven to be a false economy for the UK, the revenue raised from the sales has not as promised been used to fund the further building of more social housing stock, rather it has been used to creatively generate more funds for the treasury without the need to hold the political hot potato of raising levels of general taxation. A rented council house should be yours for life and it should pass onto any of your direct family members should they suitably qualify for it. This not only gives security and peace of mind to the tenant but it helps to build social cohesion within communities due to reduced transience. We will end the depletion of our social housing stock through the right to buy scheme, a practice which ultimately has negative consequences for the poorest amongst the working class by progressively reducing the availability of affordable lifelong accommodation for them. In the event that they find themselves in a position to take the first rung on the property ladder, then both the open market and shared ownership affordable sectors remain available for them.

Waive section 106 developer contribution agreements for both rentable social housing and affordable shared ownership schemes.

In order to both speed planning consent and deliver social house building projects at minimum cost to the working classes, we would enact legislation to waive section 106 developer contribution agreements. Any new infrastructure costs relating to any such planning applications would be borne by the consenting local authority in question and reclaimed by them from central funding under a developer exemption reclamation scheme.

Introduce competition into the banking sector.

Enact legislation to charter the establishment of not for profit regional community interest bank to provide low interest and long term mortgage products to residential customers in the UK. These would be initially capitalised through a sovereign wealth fund granted from central government using funds redirected from foreign aid (£12.75 Billion per year) or grossly expensive and unnecessary carbon sequestration projects justified under net zero based energy policy (£40 Billion estimated as the total cost for just one such project at Drax Power Station). These products would allow young couples to have at least part of their mortgage in the form of a low interest 35 year loan. This will protect them to some extent from cost spikes caused by having to remortgage during periods characterised by high interest rates, not only will they have known fixed costs to help with their budgeting but they will have more money in their pockets in their younger years when they need as much help as they can whilst raising their families.

Regulate second home ownership and full time holiday lets.

Despite the inclusion of firmly supportive national policies within the body politic of nationalism, its principles are firmly rooted in the competitive free market model of economy. Private enterprise, personal responsibility, the right to private property and the service to nation within a regulated capitalist meritocracy are all key elements. Therefore the regulation between the contrary rights of second home ownership occurring as a result of positive wealth creation and that of the need for housing with a local community, is one requiring the balanced judgment of all interests concerned. That said a clear need for some regulation is required as many quaint coastal villages in areas such as Cornwall have second home ownership levels above 80% and one such village, Portloe, situated on The Roseland Peninsula is now reported to be the first village in Cornwall without a single child registered as a permanent resident.

The local economy in such areas with too many second homes can come to a near standstill during winter periods. As Christian nationalists we believe that blood flows downstream to money, in other words the economy exists to serve the people not the other way around. Our decision therefore is weighted slightly in favour of the resident community and we would regulate a maximum level of second home ownership and full-time holiday lets of 40% in any given area. This would be applicable in granular detail from the individual street to the village to the parish level etc. Air BnBs and other such holiday lets where at least one person is resident on a full time basis, would be exempt from this regulation.

Place a legal duty on universities to provide 50% of their student accommodation external to the private rented sector within 10 years.

Following the introduction of tuition fees and student loans in 1998, UK universities have transitioned into becoming profit making businesses, a process that has been speeded up by the increased provision of more lucrative places for foreign students over the last decade or so. It is therefore only right in our opinion, that some of their profits are now reinvested into housing more of their students so that the demand burden caused by them is taken away from local housing stocks. The National Housing Party UK would raise legislation to place a legal duty on universities to provide 50% of their student accommodation external to the private rented sector within 10 years.

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