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Today’s March for Homes brings into sharp focus the urgent need to address London’s acute housing crisis.
The reasons for this crisis are clear. Council housebuilding has ground to a virtual halt, the Tory right to buy has significantly depleted the housing stock and housing associations are incapable of filling the gap.
London needs around 63,000 new homes each year. But only a third of these are being built, mostly by private developers.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
