The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
IN HER 2017 conference speech Theresa May declared she would “help fix our broken housing market.”
May declared “help is on the way” for people stuck on the housing list and promised to get “homes built for social rent, well below market level” where the “need is greatest.”
But, in the high-profile South London Elephant and Castle development, her Conservative friends are firmly on the side of less-social-rent housing.
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
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES



