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Here's Rowan Moore's agenda for addressing the housing crisis:

1. Reform taxes;
2. Transform empty buildings;
3. Build public housing;
4. Use land well
[better]5. Build sustainably;
6. Build beautifully.

'The prize is to make, through the places where people live, a better version of the society we have now'!

Its a sensible plan but not one that looks like it would be adopted in its entirety, although elements are emerging as policy (ish)!

#housing #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/01/peace-permanence-and-affordable-prices-six-ways-to-solve-britains-housing-crisis
#politics #housing
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
indeed, but its always worth repeating....
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
Well, I'm still (vaguely) an optimist, so I always hope someone might actually listen... but by doing so I realise I risk ejection from Cynic's Corner..... (sorry)
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
indeed not, but its difficult to see how the housing crisis can be solved via independent un-coordinated action as in itself the housing crisis is partly a collective action problem... we might want to argue that in a sort of quasi-Ostrom emergent organic social organisation could help, but the structures are such that only a shift in formal regulation is likely to produce a (relatively) undisruptive solution...

which is the reason, we still have a housing crisis, as you imply!
MostlyTato
At the top of the list is reform taxes. The vast majority of people have zero idea how taxation works, and that includes the economically delusional politicians who determine policy.
But fair taxation involves an ideological shift which is utterly beyond the paradigm under which our failing society 'Labours.'
And that will only change for the better once it fails, utterly.
Because most people only change when they are forced to.
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