Natalie Elphicke: From tackling gangs to visa waivers, my five-step plan to take back control of our borders

We need to be clear and robust when it comes to tackling security and ending the abuses of European human rights laws.

Natalie Elphicke: It’s time to break free from the long shadow of the financial crisis

The new Prime Minister needs to dream a dream for all of us, and then put in place the political measures to make it a reality.

Natalie Elphicke: The private renting experiment has failed six million people. Here’s an alternative approach.

There is compelling evidence that there are only two tenures – social housing and home ownership – by which wellbeing of people is supported effectively.

Natalie Elphicke: Not since the moon landings have we built 300,000 houses a year. Here’s how that target can be met.

Right now, a whole host of things are said to be top infrastructure priorities. Yet, remarkably, housing is not among them. This needs to change.

Natalie Elphicke: The Conservative manifesto’s radical plan for housing

It both firmly believes in home-owning democracy and aims to be a friend to renters too.

Natalie Elphicke: The refugee challenge – a chance to harness social finance for housing

For every safe home we make for our refugee neighbours, we could build up to another two or more homes to meet current domestic need, across all tenures.

Natalie Elphicke: How to provide social housing more fairly

Modernisation of the current arrangements for leases would bring the arrangements into line with modern housing choices.

Natalie Elphicke: Resenting our elders profits nobody

This government must empower and inspire today’s young to achieve under it what their parents did under Thatcher and Major.

Natalie Elphicke: How to make a modern right to buy affordable

As well as a mechanism for home ownership, the finances must be right, too.

Natalie Elphicke: A modern right to buy

The UK has a poor record on home ownership, which has been in decline since 2003. Here is a potential solution.

Natalie Elphicke: Let’s not drive original thinkers, innovators and speakers out of politics

There is a moral in the conflated row exactly a week ago over Lord Freud’s remarks.

Natalie Elphicke: The dangers of Miliband’s Mansion Tax

The most likely impact of this policy is the national revaluation exercise in order to re-band council and national taxes that Labour was forced to abandon in 2010.

Natalie Elphicke: Learning the real value of social housing

Housing association profits from social tenants have increased tenfold in five years – is that right or fair?

Natalie Elphicke: In defence of Help to Buy

We need a property-owning democracy – not a rentocracy.

Natalie Elphicke: How to break down the barriers between renting and owning

In our new report, Nation Rent, we set out how could people to rent and buy over time and as their circumstances allow.