The local election aftermath. May and Corbyn are like two spooked children, drawing nearer for comfort as the thunder rages.

Will they now seek to appease turbulent voters by rushing her-deal-plus-the-Customs-Union through the Commons?

Simon Cooke: Who owns England? Not, it would appear, big business after all.

A Guardian author suggesting otherwise is wrong. The picture we get is of mostly stable land ownership.

Richard Ehrman: How building beautiful homes can make good economic sense

The key to better quality and design is to go one step further back to the developers’ raw material – land.

Nicholas Boys Smith: Why do we build fewer homes proportionally than most other countries? Where’s the smoking gun?

We should move from a planning permission-led system to a building permit-led system. Design rules should be strict, clear, but limited.

Joel Charles: After May’s conference speech and Hammond’s Budget, opportunity must be our core objective

We have a habit of looking back at policy platforms pursued by previous Conservative Governments, and attempting to bring back popular policies like a poor Hollywood remake.

John Penrose: Rebooting Capitalism 2) How to help give younger people a fair deal

In the second of three articles, the Weston-super-Mare MP sets out plans on tax, housing deficits and debt to help achieve inter-generational justice.

Stephen Booth: Why No Deal will only shave a small slice off growth – if we act wisely over the medium-term

Brexit won’t be the most important factor shaping our growth over the next decade or so, whether we leave with an agreement or without one.

“Our friends and neighbours in social housing should not have to put up with second-rate homes.” May’s housing speech: full text.

The rise of social housing provided “biggest collective leap in living standards in British history”. Today, housing associations are the keepers of that legacy.

Neil O’Brien: New homes. It’s time to make developers pay their fair share for infrastructure.

New research out today calculates that granting a piece of land planning permission for new houses makes it dramatically more valuable.

Bob Seely: Yes, Brexit and leadership are important. But so’s everything else. Here are some ideas for the future.

Scrap HS2. Integrate social care. Abolish NI. Reverse police cuts. Consider a new Bill of Rights. And much, much more.

James Brokenshire: Our new planning framework for quality as well as quantity

As Sir Roger Scruton notes: “Architecture is a public art: whether we like it or not, we are forced to witness it.”

Alex Morton: Five housing reforms that we need to implement straight away

Given the long lead times involved in constructing new homes, we can’t afford to let the Government’s weakness or distracted state delay us.

Philip Booth: Housing. Why this Tory fascination with statism? Let’s give the market a chance instead.

In other words, let us do things a bit more like everywhere else in the world and a bit more like we used to in the UK.

What Brokenshire is up to as Communities Secretary, sorry, Housing Secretary, sorry, Communities Secretary

He wants to take people with him in his quest to hit the Government’s target. But will radical policy ideas fit with his emollient political approach?

Will Tanner: Our three-point plan to build more houses and boost home ownership

Onward proposes helping half a million young people by lending them a deposit in the same way that government underwrites some of their mortgage costs.