One of the most hotly debated topics of the recent party conference season was housing. Is the Help to Buy Scheme a valuable spur to the market, or the beginning of a house price bubble? How close are we to winning the argument for lifting the HRA borrowing cap? Is the rhetoric of dramatically increasing supply matched by a credible set of policy means? This is a debate that matters an awful lot in London. London has failed to build enough homes for the best part of 30 years. This is not just 'affordable' homes. It is across all price points and all tenures - homes to rent and to buy. With London's population continuing to grow, we need to build more than half a million new homes by 2021 just to keep pace with the annual increase in households.
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