What a difference an election makes. On the new housing policy, with its promise to build 1.5 million new homes and reform the planning system, it’s like night and day. I know we’ve heard it all before, and we should all be wary of that. But it’s hard to be connected to the construction industry and not to let the hard shell of cynicism melt just a little bit in the warm glow of the new government’s apparent competence.