You do talk in riddles. If we are short of houses and we need to build more what do we do? 20 plus years in property, weekly meetings with councils and government officers and I await your earth shattering answer to the crisis. I am genuinely excited at you telling me I am running in the ring direction. Please tell me the answer to a huge under supply of houses?
Build them.
Bring in the "Housing Crisis Bill" look at whatever is holding you back and be rid of it, mobilise manpower, land and resources and get it done.
You work with the tools you have, but they are inadequate, so imagine this were a national crisis, say like fighting a war in the South Atlantic, looks at what is needed and bring in to public control all the things required, if laws stand in the way change them.
Devote the resources to getting it done.
Under the present government that simply will never happen. You work in a circumstance with defined powers, I have no doubt you know every inch of them, if those powers were to expand ten fold what could you do with that?
I was watching a debate the other day, there was an American speaker that said it would be impossible today to build the interstate highway system Eisenhower built in the 50's or to put a man on the moon as they did in the 60's because there simply isn't the political will.
After the war we cleared the slums and built thousands of council houses, we nationalised the health service, but as Andy Burnham stated during the leadership elections last year we could not do that today.
