{"id":149255,"date":"2025-01-26T20:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T13:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/home-truths-the-only-thing-labour-is-building-is-a-bigger-more-dysfunctional-housing-market-george-monbiot\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T01:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T18:55:31","slug":"home-truths-the-only-thing-labour-is-building-is-a-bigger-more-dysfunctional-housing-market-george-monbiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/home-truths-the-only-thing-labour-is-building-is-a-bigger-more-dysfunctional-housing-market-george-monbiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPrivate developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis \u2013 build more. But it won\u2019t workBuild baby, build. That\u2019s about the intellectual limit of the government\u2019s housing strategy. Millions are under-housed, so let\u2019s \u201cbulldoze\u201d the planning system and build more homes. But it\u2019s not nearly so simple.As soon as anyone challenges the policy, the government brands them a nimby \u2013 another of the crude truncations that pass for debate on this issue: nimbys versus yimbys. So before I go further, let me state that I want to see lots of new social and genuinely affordable housing built as part of a massive programme to solve the worst housing crisis of any wealthy country. I\u2019ve been making similar calls for years, not least in the report I co-authored for the Labour party in 2019: Land for the Many. I oppose Labour\u2019s current approach for a different reason. It will fail.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading…
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