As ever, no one has the courage to take on the big, wealthy landowners who will no doubt continue to profit from making sure housing availability is lower than housing need in order to keep prices high.
There are already sufficient planning approvals to solve the housing shortage but developers like to sit on them to keep land values as high as possible.
The prime minister says he wants to change the ‘bonkers system’ that protects bats and newts in order to launch a huge building programme.
Further to prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s exclusive column on how he will ‘turbocharge’ building and cut through red tape to solve Britain’s.
Many people want to live in rented properties that are owned and managed by the council, not by housing associations and certainly not by private landlords.
