Mark Henderson: The Decent Homes Standard is failing households

Can we honestly say that a house with damp is acceptable? Or a home with poor insulation, when it costs an extra £650 per year to heat?

Ryan Bourne: To help grow prosperity, let’s focus on people and not places – such as towns

Bowman and Westlake’s policy ideas are perfectly compatible with this end, but pitching them as a city and town agenda risks creating a false impression.

Andy Street: The spending round must be about generating money as well as allocating it

The UK needs a state-of-the-art ‘gigafactory’, and it should be built here in the West Midlands alongside our established automotive cluster.

Rosalind Beck: The Government’s war on landlords will only make the housing crisis worse for the lowest-paid.

There needs to be the ability to evict when that is justified. Undue delay and obstruction and the rental market will shrink.

Bob Seely: Scrap the automatic Right to Buy. And nine other ideas to make housing sustainable.

The rest of our economy is shifting to greater sustainability. The system to provide places to live should do the same.

Andrew Wood: We need clear rules to ensure fairness by councils providing property for faith groups

A stricter separation between church and state at local level would safeguard against political patronage.

Gary Porter: Self-build and custom build will become increasingly important to delivering the new homes we need

In the UK, we have lost the capacity for individuals to provide or commission homes individually tailored to their needs.

Robert Halfon: Now is the time for Common Market 2.0, and an EFTA-type plan for Brexit

Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?

Murad Gassanly: Why I left the Labour Party

The Conservatives are the natural political home for those who value national identity and are open to the world.

Interview: Lord Bird says homelessness is not just for Christmas, and the death penalty might deter knife crime

The founder of The Big Issue expresses his aversion to liberalism, and his disappointment with the middle class.

John Moss: The next Mayor of London needs to back redevelopment of council estates, to get the new homes we need

Bold plans could see 100,000 extra properties. It would also mean an improved quality of housing for existing tenants.

Andrew Potter: Building cheap, cramped and poorly-insulated homes is a false economy

If we are going to build 300,000 homes and ensure public support, quality really counts. Let’s have new homes that we can be proud of for hundreds of years. 

Five years on, cutting the spare room subsidy has been vindicated

Work has been rewarded. Predictions of rent arrears increasing have been proved false. The number of households penalised has fallen from 660,000 to 381,000.

“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.

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.