Bricking It: The UK Housing Crisis and the Failure of Policy

With ever-decreasing affordability and availability of homes, the UK has a longstanding and complex housing crisis.

Rather than laying the blame on a particular group or cause, this book explains the root causes of our current housing situation and proposes useful ways forward. The author uses his experience of delivering housing policy in Greater Manchester to analyse the interlocking issues of demographic and social policy change, the financial and planning systems, the construction indu...