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‘The housing disaster can only be addressed through a change in mindset, a resetting of national priorities and action at the highest level.’
For the past 40 years, the UK has been fixated on the golden dream of home ownership. Countless media articles and TV series have been dedicated to it and huge sums have been spent by governments on promoting it.
Yet for so many of the public, home ownership moves further out of reach every year. While social housing dwindles in supply, millions of households are stuck in expensive private rentals, often of poor quality, with no long-term security.
This is not a crisis – it is a disaster, blighting people’s future, harming the nation’s health and storing up further problems the longer it goes on.
We need to face up to the fact that the country has failed to put in place any decent alternative to home ownership, that relying on the market to provide housing that people can afford has not worked, and that, instead of politicians promising more of the same, a new and bold approach to providing the homes that this country needs is essential.
In this hard-hitting book, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Julian Richer, examines how we got to such a disastrous situation and what we can do about it.
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For the past 40 years, the UK has been fixated on the golden dream of home ownership. Countless media articles and TV series have been dedicated to it and huge sums have been spent by governments on promoting it.
Yet for so many of the public, home ownership moves further out of reach every year. While social housing dwindles in supply, millions of households are stuck in expensive private rentals, often of poor quality, with no long-term security.
This is not a crisis – it is a disaster, blighting people’s future, harming the nation’s health and storing up further problems the longer it goes on.
We need to face up to the fact that the country has failed to put in place any decent alternative to home ownership, that relying on the market to provide housing that people can afford has not worked, and that, instead of politicians promising more of the same, a new and bold approach to providing the homes that this country needs is essential.
In this hard-hitting book, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Julian Richer, examines how we got to such a disastrous situation and what we can do about it.
