Yes, There Is a Solution to the Housing Shortage ; Housing has Become a Political Hot Potato That Will Challenge the Next Prime Minister. But We May Just Have to Face Up to Living in a More Crowded City

Evening Standard - London › May 18, 2007

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SUCH IS the power of a prime minister-in-waiting. Gordon Brown only had to mention the housing crisis in the South-East this week for the issue suddenly to gain the prominence and airtime campaigners have craved for so long. They have been sounding the alarm for years, but a word from the man destined for No 10 ensured that everyone started listening.

Brown better get used to it: this is how things are going to be for the next couple of years at least.

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Yes, There Is a Solution to the Housing Shortage ; Housing has Become a Political Hot Potato That Will Challenge the Next Prime Minister. But We May Just Have to Face Up to Living in a More Crowded City

The PM-to-be accepted that the South- East housing shortage was becoming desperate; that too many young people are being priced out of the property market before they can even enter it.

His proposed solution sounded great: a set of five new eco- towns, providing 100,000 carbon neutralhomes. That...

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