{"id":34660,"date":"2016-11-17T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/creative-responses-to-the-uk-housing-crisis-letters-from-frank-field-and-dbc-reed\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T02:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:10:29","slug":"creative-responses-to-the-uk-housing-crisis-letters-from-frank-field-and-dbc-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/creative-responses-to-the-uk-housing-crisis-letters-from-frank-field-and-dbc-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative responses to the UK housing crisis | Letters from Frank Field and DBC Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe latest setback on the housebuilding front (UK construction at weakest level for four years as housebuilding stalls, theguardian.com, 11 November) is seen by some commentators as a sign of the doom and gloom about to engulf the post-Brexit economy. It is also argued that the prospect of controlling our borders will serve only to deepen this gloom. I totally disagree. Related: Redfern review into housing: worth building on?  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/nov\/16\/creative-responses-to-the-uk-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">Creative responses to the UK housing crisis | Letters from Frank Field and DBC Reed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The latest setback on the housebuilding front (UK construction at weakest level for four years&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-912","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124171,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sort-out-housebuilding-obstacles-or-miss-target-lords-warn-uk-government\/","url_meta":{"origin":34660,"position":0},"title":"Sort out housebuilding obstacles or miss target, Lords warn UK government","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The 300,000 homes-a-year target is at risk until labour shortages, policy confusion and lack of skilled planning staff are addressed, say peersBritain faces a housing crisis in the wake of the pandemic as confusion about planning rules and shortages of staff undermine government targets to build 300,000 homes a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36548,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housebuilding-is-up-but-what-type-of-homes-are-being-built\/","url_meta":{"origin":34660,"position":1},"title":"Housebuilding is up \u2013 but what type of homes are being built?","date":"November 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Housing stock is growing, office conversions are increasingly popular, but new social housing completions are much less healthyAny discussion on the UK housing crisis invariably jumps straight to housebuilding: build more houses, and house prices and rents will fall, proponents claim. 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