We can ease the social care crisis and release more family-sized homes on to the market.
They could provide as many as a million homes over ten years.
Policies like Right to Buy and Starter Homes are steps in the right direction – but we still need to start building hundreds of thousands of new homes.
Many want to do so – and see this as an integral part of their charitable mission.
Why hammer the private rented sector so hard? The fundamental problem is supply. The fundamental solution should be to build, build and build.
In a balanced economy, the north would produce around £70 billion more. Here is one way to help close that gap.