The government’s flawed scheme to get more homes built will benefit some at the expense of othersSometimes,planned legislation seems too silly to be dependable. It looks so palpably dumb that you wonder if there is not some profound and subtle intelligence that has escaped the attention of the commentators, experts and interested parties lining up to sentence it. So it is with the housing and planning bill, or recently announced with a fusillade of cliches from the housing and planning minister,Brandon Lewis.
It will allow a “one-nation government”, said Lewis, and to “kick-start a national crusade” that will “get one million homes built by 2020” and “benefit deliver the homes hard-working people rightly deserve,transforming generation rent into generation buy”.
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Source: theguardian.com