Resolving the housing crisis: Failure has created a real opportunity

There are few areas where the market, that unquestionable force, has failed as dramatically as in housing. That failure is evident in the private, social, and rental sectors.

Unless a far more effective response can be found, that situation will be exacerbated by relentless urbanisation and the increasingly insecure and low-paid nature of much of today’s work.

These realities are made all the more pressing by globalisation, automation, the growing impression that our economic recovery may not be as secure as we had hoped, and the dire prospect of a hard Brexit.