If a home was built for every new initiative, speech or newspaper article about “fixing the housing crisis”, our housing stock would be in much better shape than it is as a result of the past few decades of political failure on the matter. This week, there’s another attempt – the first from Theresa May’s government.
The Prime Minister made housing one of her key social justice issues when she came into Downing Street, which means that she and her advisers have taken a very close interest in the policies in the White Paper that is due this week. Those involved in the policy are insistent that unlike so many other proposals which are dramatically slimmed down at the Parliamentary Business and Legislation Committee which works out what could actually get past MPs and peers, what will be unveiled next week will be radical and cover the myriad factors contributing to the housing crisis.
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