The core of his plan is that councils will be forced to build. We support the Chancellor’s end and salute his courage. But the means look dicey.
There is no justification for London boroughs to lie prostrate and helpless at their feet.
The Chancellor also describes the tax credit system as “very expensive”, costing £30 billion, or “three times the Home Office budget”.
We should make it our over-riding priority to seek “full ownership” of homes within a generation.
The council leader behaved as though concreting over historic Chester was the most important thing in the world.
Will any of the Labour leadership contenders condemn this attack on aspiration?
Our new report finds that the Government could help families, slash Housing Benefit bills and save up to £1 trillion by taking a leaf out of Harold Macmillan’s book.
Res Publica proposes a radical programme of local empowerment and coordination to win consent for the new building this country needs.
In the second part of ConHome’s series, the author sets out a programme that would breathe life into the Government’s “family test” for policy.
Support for new housing is three times higher if it is traditional than if it is modernist.
Drastic changes are needed to a lobby group that has served as an apologist for failure.
The Housing Bill will enable all social tenants to benefit from the Right to Buy, rather than have ownership dictated by whoever happens to manage their property.
We returned one councillor in Newhaven as a paper candidate, nobody was more surprised than him.
Now we need to improve our infrastructure to keep pace with housing growth.
Hagiographies of the post-war Labour Government are misplaced.