Solving the country’s housing crisis won’t be achieved by government “tinkering” or the latest wheeze from a new housing minister, a former senior Labour MP has warned.

Speaking at Savills’ annual housing conference this week in London, Nick Raynsford – himself a housing minister under Tony Blair’s government, responsible for introducing the Decent Homes Standard – warned the task of building the right number of homes in the UK would require “a sustained commitment and a coordinated response from all the agencies that are able to contribute, all of them operating to their maximum output”.

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