Sickeningly high mortgages, stomach-churning rents and nauseating numbers on council house waiting lists are all symptoms of Britain’s ailing housing sector.
For over a decade successive Conservative governments have been looking in vain for an antidote. The pandemic only made things worse, with the average house earning more than the average worker in its first year.
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