How to combat England’s housing shortage

The World

For English homebuyers, there’s a big issue: not enough houses and what’s in stock isn’t affordable for the average person. The country’s opposition Labor Party has a proposal in the works to fix the selling price of land at fraction of what it could sell for on the market. To find out how this could work, The World’s Carol Hills speaks to Anthony Breach, a senior analyst at the UK-based Center for Cities.

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