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morning joe starts now. historic winter storm in western new york statement storm system is blamed for dozens of deaths across the country. it made holiday travel almost impossible on the roads or through the skies with thousands of passengers stuck at airports searching for new flights. meanwhile, the republican governor uses the christmas holiday to play hole papolitics migrants with no warning for groups. and we will take a look at the latest testimony released by the january 6 committee. including a conversation the former president had with one of his closest advisers in the days after the attack on the capitol. also ahead, we dig into the latest action by the democratic controlled house and how the white house is preparing for a divided congress good morning welcome to morning joe. it s monday, december 26th i m jonathan lemire. also with us at the table is affairs analyst and executive editor of recount and host of the podcast. like gene wilder in blazing
subsidies for first time buyers. and the conservatives insist they will build more homes. but last year the levelling up secretary, michael gove, scrapped local housing targets, which critics say will simply reduce house building rates further. stuart clarke, the former levelling up secretary under liz truss, has argued this was simply a politically motivated capitulation to older home owning nimbies people who don t mind new housing but not in my back yard . moreover, clarke argues this actually cost the tories councils seats in last week s local elections, rather than protecting them, as young people were put off voting for the conservatives because they had no serious offer on housing. by the way, for context, here s new uk housing construction. there were 206,000 new starts in 2021 still well below the government s manifesto target of 300,000 and also well down on the building rates of the 1970s. now the extent to which additional house building is the key to making housing
some economists argue it wouldn t have a significant effect. yet it s worth noting that one recent estimate from the centre for cities suggests that, compared to the average european country, britain today is missing some 4.3 million homes. as for labour, keir starmer, recently said he would take on the nimbies and would bring back those house building targets. the party is also reportedly considering reforming planning and restricting the sale of new build properties to overseas i nvesto i’s . the development system, as we have it now, will never build the number of homes we need. that is why developers are reining in their production now because are prices falling. they will never build as many homes if the prices are coming down because it would be silly to do so. we need to go back to the proactive public led planning and master planning development system we use to do quite well at in this
2022 i see here nimbies are out and yimbys are in. can you tell us what those are post quantum nimbies are the people who say you re not building in my backyard and yimbys is associated with places like san francisco where it s difficult to get any construction. but we are seeing yimbys breaking out elsewhere we have a piece by the mayor of new york city saying we need yimbys, not nimbies and we need to say yes where we previous said no. and i think housing shortages is a real problem in many parts of the world. that s what yimbys are yes, let s build stuff and change rules so we don t just