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How serious is the government about addressing the UK's housing crisis? According to Stephen Stone, chief executive of Crest Nicholson, nowhere near serious enough. At the second annual Building Live conference this week, Stone laid into Westminster for the lack of top-down leadership on the crisis, and successive administrations for "30 years of inactivity" that have left the UK struggling to house its population. His sentiments were echoed by other senior industry figures, with KPMG's infrastructure head Richard Threlfall and Al Watson, partner in law firm Taylor Wessing, among those decrying the missed opportunities to solve a problem that, as the population swells, is only getting worse, particularly in London.