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David Cameron’s “rabbit out of a hat” pledge to double the number of new homes built under his Help to Buy scheme smacks of panic.
He was so petrified at the thought of his target for subsidised new private homes being outflanked by Labour that he has abandoned the 100,000 figure he announced at Tory Party conference in favour of 200,000.
Cameron proclaims that Britain is building again, but his government’s record is abysmal, with the lowest peacetime level of housebuilding since the 1920s.
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
