Your leader (29 June, page 3) called for a national hearts-and-minds campaign to explain the need for extra housing. It might help if you first questioned whether there really is such a need. In Ireland last year, there were 90,000 housing starts in a country with a population of 4.5 million. The equivalent rate in the UK would be about 1 million new homes a year, compared with the actual number of 180,000 for a population of 60 million.
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