The point is that every new home added increases our supply of homes. The housing market works on chains, if a 5 bed home is built and someone moves in from a 4 bed, then someone can move from a 3 to… (View Post)

There's countries out there that have more affordable housing than we do, because they don't have the constraints on building houses that we do. Its not rocket science, its fundamental econ… (View Post)

The Court of Appeal considered Sally Clark's case and rejected it. Then years later the miscarriage of justice was revealed. The Court of Appeal is not infallible. (View Post)

Extending RTB to the privately rented sector would be a more interesting solution. (View Post)

If there were a free market in houses then rent controls would see fewer homes available to rent as would-be landlords would be less likely to get a new house built to let it out if there were rent c… (View Post)