I’m all in favour of optimism. However, the reason Labour is failing to build homes is that there are real, difficult barriers to building enough homes, and those barriers will still exist if the Greens win.
yes and there won’t be quick progress in removing or avoiding such barriers. housing has been through the fat end of fifty years of privatisation and bubble inflation and the beneficiaries of that will not easily give it up. but they must be told that the value of their investment may go down as well as up, and they’ve been on the up for far too long
i am choosing to believe that a wave of newly elected greens would follow their manifesto principles where at all possible. i am extremely naive btw
I’m all in favour of optimism. However, the reason Labour is failing to build homes is that there are real, difficult barriers to building enough homes, and those barriers will still exist if the Greens win.
yes and there won’t be quick progress in removing or avoiding such barriers. housing has been through the fat end of fifty years of privatisation and bubble inflation and the beneficiaries of that will not easily give it up. but they must be told that the value of their investment may go down as well as up, and they’ve been on the up for far too long