A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : But Westminster, I watched its volunteers in action for the best part of an hour: they told me the need they try to meet has doubled since last year.
52% : It keeps its collective eye on the city’s gleaming new developments, and also wants to steer the local conversation about housing away from blaming outsiders, and blurring the politics of housing into asylum and immigration: the city’s crisis, they say, should bring people together rather than pulling them apart.
43% : In London, housing policy is about to undergo the utterly absurd change that was recently decried by my colleague Aditya Chakrabortty, whereby developers will be free to build even less “affordable” housing in return for even greater public subsidy.

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