If he can secure enough land from Whitehall departments to build 150,000 houses that would be a start. But only a start.
Even with the discounts many can not afford to exercise the right to buy.
LEPs should be allowed to help improve the housing supply.
Immigration control, more jobs, new homes – and the “big, open and comprehensive offer” that this Government can make to voters in its first hundred days.
Now he has an important new role as the Anti-Corruption Tsar.
In Wales red tape means that building the same home costs £13,000 more than in England.
Traditional institutions are strengthened by traditional architecture.
Even if Cameron has given a little glimpse of his inner Netanyahu, Miliband displays all the pragmatism of Salvador Allende.
The Houses in Multiple Occupation regulations should be enforced.
Labour will create an acute, artificial shortage of rental accommodation and a privileged class of subsidised tenants.
They seem to be more back in vogue with all political parties than at any time since the 1970s.
The Conservative Manifesto’s commitment to garden cities where local people want them was a welcome demonstration of a willingness to provide housing supply.
There are policies here that provide the common ground with both major parties, from hawkish deficit reduction targets to envy taxes.
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.