London’s housing crisis will move north unless radical
powers are handed to mayors in Liverpool, Greater Manchester and the West
Midlands, experts have warned. The thinktank, Institute for Public Policy
Research (IPPR), said ministers would miss their target of building 1m new
homes by 2020 unless it devolved power over housing to the regions. The IPPR
North study, Closer to Home, said the metro mayors, due to be elected in May
2017, should be given control over the 1.6m hectares of greenbelt land in
England to alleviate the shortage of affordable housing. It found a huge gap
between the amount of available brownfield land and the long-term housing need.
Read more on the IPPR website.
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