Developers and planners will also have to accept difficult changes if the aspirations of the young are to be fulfilled.
Space requirements prevent single young people getting on the housing ladder and make overcrowding worse.
The Prime Minister must explain today how reforming the system will deliver more gains for workers and familes than tearing it up.
Simply banging on about the socialist 1970s will not cut it. We need our own vision. Focus on shared ownership as the model for new housing would be a good start.
The prime objective is to get more houses built – copying Labour’s attacks on foreign investors would make matters worse.
Politicians are most effective when they are being themselves. Does part of May’s “irreducable core” really yearn for more housing?
Too many Conservative councils are being passive on this key challenge – while sitting on vast supplies of surplus land.
We will have one shot at getting the revision of the Planning Framework right. This makes the next eighteen months critical for the Conservatives’ long-term future.
With the stakes as high as they are, the Tories need to throw the kitchen sink at the Opposition to drag themselves ahead in the polls.
There is a big political prize to be had for the Conservative Party to improving the rights of millions of property owners and bringing them up to equality
For all his manifesto mistakes, his core take is correct. The key people in elections are who he has always said they are: lower middle-class, provincial, home-owning voters.
Transparency, independent checks, and equal rights with the private sector are needed to reduce charges,
News schemes should include shared equity homes reserved for people under 30 years old.
According to the originators of the Labour policy, the owner of a £300,000 house would be liable for tax of £4,950 a year.
While London is experiencing the greatest demand for housing, the prospect of building in the capital is fraught with political risk.