The housing crisis is not inevitable: An alternative future

Housing has become a crunch point in politics: a key issue on the doorsteps and at ballot boxes, a key reason for communities being ripped apart and a key site of tension in ever polarising debates. Whilst the housing crisis is often framed as inherently complex, there are very simple - some cost-free - solutions which the government could adopt that would change the face of the housing crisis overnight, improving millions of people's lives and achieving their main goal of boosting the economy. Yet, these common-sense policies are continually lambasted as 'radical' and/or framed as folk-devils to be buried out of sight and mind. In this talk Abi will explore why very mainstream solutions to the housing crisis are continually dismissed and explore a very possible alternative future in which houses are homes, not vehicles for profit.