Britain Didn’t Fail to Build Homes. It Was Squeezed From Every Direction, on Purpose.

Britain Didn’t Fail to Build Homes. It Was Squeezed From Every Direction, on Purpose.

Andy Burnham, the clear frontrunner to become Britain’s next Prime Minister, has pledged to deliver the biggest council house-building programme since the post-war period as part of his “No 10 North” devolution agenda. It is a fine ambition. It is also, on the construction industry’s own arithmetic, somewhere between heroic and fictional — not because…

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