Expert Urges State to Build Houses

Radical state intervention is urgently needed to tackle Britain's housing crisis, new research has demanded. Private house-building alone will not produce enough new homes and will not solve Britain's complex housing crisis, according to the report by Islington Council's executive member for housing and development James Murray.  He argued that the government's "hands off" approach to home-building is not working as the market is failing to meet the challenges. The report calls for more investment in new social housing rather than spending on benefits to subsidise private rents and regulation of the private rental market.  Download the report from the Centre of Labour and Social Studies website.