Many more houses need to be built. But even if you are one of Britain’s biggest landowners, that is easier said than done
a housing problem. There are too few houses to meet demand, and those that do exist are unaffordable for many. On June 9th Boris Johnson sketched out proposals to allow people to use benefits payments to pay for mortgages and to give tenants in housing associations the right to buy their properties. They do nothing to tackle the big problem: many more houses need to be built. Even if you are one of Britain’s biggest landowners, that is easier said than done.
For one, much of the church’s land is in the wrong place: remote rural parishes may not be where the need lies. For another, a lot of the rest of its land is locked away behind a strict legal framework. Under church law thousands of acres of “glebe” land, the sale or lease of which helps pay clerical wages, have to go to the highest bidder.
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