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When Housing Politics Lacks Bravery and Ambition – Everything Wrong with Labour’s New Town & Housing Acceleration Plan
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When Housing Politics Lacks Bravery and Ambition – Everything Wrong with Labour’s New Town & Housing Acceleration Plan

With delivery consistently falling short of housing targets, and the government’s New Towns programme unlikely to deliver more than a few hundred homes this parliament, it’s fair to ask whether anything meaningful is being done to resolve the housing crisis at all?
25 Jan 2026 16 min read
Solving the Housing Crisis – What’s in the way?
Housing

Solving the Housing Crisis – What’s in the way?

The housing crisis choking Britain’s working people won’t be solved by slogans or targets. Building at scale means confronting hard constraints, some Britain has beaten before, others it faces for the first time. Before we talk solutions, we need to be honest about what stands in our way.
28 Dec 2025 20 min read
When Britain Stopped Building: Our Greatest Economic Blunder
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When Britain Stopped Building: Our Greatest Economic Blunder

Britain went from a country where working people could live independently, with money left over to live their lives, to one where a caravan might be the last affordable form of shelter. Explore how this happened.
24 Dec 2025 16 min read
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