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How does any of this make current housing more affordable? Helping homeless people off the street (all of a sudden) seems like a good initiative on the face of it, until you realise a lot of housing is in a horrible state of disrepair. This will normalise/worsen the problem as beggars literally can't be choosers. I've been on the housing association/ halfway house merry-go-round. It's basically whatever the private housing market has regurgatated. Undesirable housing and people - the residents and the staff. With the renters right act coming into force, renting a property has become just as difficult as buying one since has since the Credit Crunch. There is a huge drop-off in the rental market between the "professional only" households and the rest. Having to delegate/ outsource basic housing decisions like repairs, furnishings or decorations in lower income housing is and always has been a recipe for disaster. People get exploited between cost cutting measures and having to live with unstable people. It's basically an open secret at this point that there is a slum landlord cartel in Britain. They exploited the Free Movement of People when we were part of the EU, they've been explpiting all the people who have been laid off since Covid, now they'll be exploiting the homeless and the government is paying them £430 billion to do it.