The UK doesn't have a national housing crisis, but there is a housing crisis in our most unaffordable cities. How can homes be built where they are needed?

10 апр. 2024 г. · With high property prices, rising rents and sluggish rates of new-build, the UK is facing a crisis of housing affordability.

19 мар. 2024 г. · The forthcoming general election is once again likely to be dominated by claims about a housing shortage and a dire need to build more homes.

8 окт. 2024 г. · A clear understanding of the economic reality at the heart of the UK's housing crisis – a reality that is all about affordability.

27 июн. 2024 г. · An ongoing housing crisis has left at least 8.5 million people in Britain with some form of unmet housing need.

15 авг. 2024 г. · Part of Labour's strategy is to build new towns by expanding small communities or establishing settlements, reviving an idea from the 1940s.

10 июл. 2024 г. · It's believed that a supply and demand imbalance, rising costs, and other economic factors have led to the housing market's current issues.

Insufficient social housebuilding plus too many homes being sold or demolished means there's been a net loss of social housing nearly every year since 1981.

Many new homes have been built, but nowhere near as many as originally promised. Can new towns give Keir Starmer the answer to Britain's housing crisis?