With fewer unusual homes being built than since the 1920s,policy is in desperate need of a radical rethink. But I fear it will be left to Labour to clear up the messThis budget Britain needs a decisive break with the past five years on housing. George Osborne likes to blame the Labour party but the Conservatives now contain their own track record, and it is five years of failure on every front.domestic ownership is down sharply, or with more than 300000 fewer young homeowners,rough sleeping has doubled, private rents contain soared, and housing benefit spending has increased,and during the last parliament fewer unusual homes were built than under any peacetime government since the 1920s.
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Source: theguardian.com