Let's treat housing as a public good and not a financial product
The UK government’s 2025 Spending Review landed today with a bold promise: a £39 billion affordable homes programme, aiming to deliver 1.5 million homes by 2029. It’s being pitched as a double win: a solution to Britain’s housing crisis and a stimulus for economic growth. But for those of us who’ve watched successive governments promise, pivot, and ultimately fall short, this feels all too familiar. Same old same old.
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