This badly-drafted and timed bill won’t address sky-tall rents or house prices – expect peers to win concessionsAs ministers braced themselves for this week’s spate of Lords defeats on their half-baked housing and planning bill I happened to be inspecting a half-built block of flats in west London with friends who are contemplating downsizing. Lucky them,you may murmur, if you are struggling with sky-tall rents in the private sector or trying to attach together a mortgage deposit in a race against seemingly endless price rises.
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Source: theguardian.com