Neil O’Brien: Planning reform needs to be handled with care

Limiting councils’ discretion could lead to a lot of fuss for little real change. The real problem is a geographically unbalanced economy.

John Moss: Khan has failed to deliver on housing. The Government should switch to funding the London boroughs instead.

Cut out the middleman. Go straight to the people who want to build – and help people who want to buy their home.

Ben Everitt: Our housing market is a weird spaghetti of disincentives. This must be fixed.

The planning system is very tricky to navigate. That is good for lawyers – but bad for those wanting a good home to live in.

Judith Barnes: How to maintain the Right to Buy without losing social housing stock

Change the rules so there is a right to use the discount to buy a property in the private sector – not the home the tenant occupies.

Olivia Harris: The pandemic has shown the importance of housing for key workers

To keep the economy functioning, it must be affordable for some in relatively low-paid jobs to live in central London.

Shaun Bailey: Our Party shouldn’t be afraid of talking about social housing

We need to build a new generation of high quality, beautiful, green, affordable homes for people to rent and buy.

Alex Morton: We need a Help to Build plan to save building new homes from collapse

By using the new grant as an incentiv those who are looking to buy would be more likely to buy a new build, enabling supply to continue.

Daniel Pryor: Reducing homelessness. Housing First is a liberal approach based on harm reduction. We need more of it

When Crisis is saying the same thing as the Centre for Social Justice and ourselves at the Adam Smith Institute, politicians should listen.

Neil O’Brien: Salvaging the economy. Could we just live with more borrowing for a bit? Maybe, maybe not.

Hopefully it will be crisis averted, and we’ll have a bit more time to fix the hole. But sooner or later, difficult choices on tax and spending are coming.

James Palmer: My plan to offer £100,000 homes in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

The discount will be passed on to future buyers, helping more people onto the property ladder.

Stephen Greenhalgh and Nick Botterill: Under Labour, Hammersmith & Fulham has become a borough of missed opportunity

The chance for new housing, of an improved standard, has been sabotaged. The dream of home ownership for thousands has been thwarted.

Birmingham Council owns more than 4,000 empty garages

Many of these buildings could be replaced with new homes. New rules are needed to end this scandal.

Paul Mercer: Tackling homelessness from the ground up

The cost of putting individuals and families into temporary accommodation is significant. Finding secure accommodation is imperative.

Robert Halfon: For years, I’ve urged that the Conservatives become a Workers Party. Now it is one.

As the Prime Minister said, many people have lent us their vote, and they won’t be so generous next time if we get it wrong.

David Davis: How to keep the new working class voters we won last Thursday – and win even more

In this new political battle, the greatest tension will not be left v right or even fiscal
doves v economic hawks.   It will be a battle between creativity and convention.