1. The finance-housebuilding complex -- 2. The housing shortage -- 3. The housebuilding business -- 4. Financing housing investment -- 5. The property lobby -- 6. Shaping national housing and planning policy -- 7. The 2008 financial crash continues -- 8. The housebuilders and affordable housing -- 9. How the social and affordable housing sectors got swallowed 10. Local case studies -- 11. Unblocking the impasse -- Postscript
Summary
The complex and self-serving nexus behind the UK's housing crisis is laid bare in this passionate book from Bob Colenutt. Investigating the network of landowners, house-builders, financial backers and politicians, he reveals how we have been forced to accept the cycle of low supply and high prices, and proposes solutions to the housing emergency
