The focus of the article linked below is the United Kingdom. But the problems it explores are mirrored in nations experiencing a housing crisis that national and regional governments would often rather not recognize.
Liam Halligan, author of Home Truths, a recent book on the United Kingdom’s housing crisis describes the roots of the problem as well as its current scope, debunking ideas such as “Britain has run out of room for housing.”
Halligan discusses a reluctance by governments to deal with the problem, which has lasted half a lifetime for many young people and is stoking a massive reservoir of national anger.
What’s preventing governments, local and national from accepting the problem and tackling its solution? Halligan identifies three powerful forces that conspire against change.
These forces are holding the UK back from even officially recognizing the problem, never mind acting towards a solution. The trouble is undoubtedly nation-specific, right?
Nope. If you’ve got a housing crisis brewing in you country, they’ll be the same ones that hamstring your government, too.
Read more in Spiked: ‘The Housing Crisis Is Storing Up Huge Political Anger’
