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Choices, choices, choices: ministers must decide whether they’re serious about the housing crisis
Ahead of the Queen’s Speech next Tuesday, Paul Smith suggests how ministers could best choose to improve the planning system
The Queen’s Speech gives the government another chance to finally try to solve the housing crisis - but will they choose to take it?
The need to increase the number of new homes we build is pretty obvious. The consequences of the housing crisis are well rehearsed. Young people pay a bigger share of their incomes in housing costs than any other generation, while having less floor space to show for it. Commuting times are getting longer. Economic growth is being stifled.
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