Labour's BIGGEST SCAM? Their Housing Claims Exposed, w./ Adam Almeida
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So, as a lot of you probably know from quite bitter experience, Britain has a housing crisis. |
| 0:04.8 | Not good, very bad. |
| 0:06.1 | An example of, I guess, the inability of the society, the social or economic model we have |
| 0:12.3 | to provide just basic needs for people. |
| 0:15.5 | Labour have come in to save everyone and to solve the problem. |
| 0:20.0 | So everything is now going to be fixed. |
| 0:22.6 | Or is it? I mean, that's the question, isn't it really? This is so important and you really |
| 0:29.2 | need to know about this. This is a big, big, big issue. Housing, of course, one of the biggest |
| 0:34.1 | domestic issues possible. Is this all one big scam, this policy of Labor, |
| 0:40.2 | in terms of their policies to address the housing crisis in terms of, you know, they say they're |
| 0:44.7 | going to build, they're going to reverse all the problems associated with Tory rule of terms |
| 0:48.9 | of their failure to address the housing crisis? Well, there's no better person to speak to |
| 0:52.2 | than Adam L made it who is an incredible housing activist, writer, researcher. Sorry, writer and researcher. I just call everyone an activist |
| 0:59.5 | by, as a knee jerk. I'll say housing researcher and writer. Adam's great to speak to you. How you did? |
| 1:07.2 | I'm very well. Thank you for having me on. Right. Let's just talk about what's the general, give a kind of precy of what Labor's actual policy is. |
| 1:15.8 | Right. So the kind of cornerstone housing policy for Labor is that they want to deliver 1.5 million new homes over the course of parliament, which is very ambitious. Some will say unrealistic, given the constraints in the labor |
| 1:30.0 | market and the cost of construction. But they're planning on doing this with a new development, |
| 1:38.4 | a new kind of development called Build to Rent. So I don't know if you're familiar with this term, |
| 1:43.9 | but essentially... What is it? What is it? What is built to rent? So I don't know if you're familiar with this term, but essentially... |
| 1:45.0 | What is it? What is it? What is built to rent? So it's purpose-built rental housing. So |
| 1:49.9 | essentially, you have an institutional investor like an asset manager or a pension fund, and they're |
| 1:57.4 | building out a new development, but it's developments that are at least 100 units. |
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