Quality, not a quick fix

Property ownership is the biggest single asset for most of the families that can afford it. This is why I believe the government's anti-competitive stance towards an unproven method of housing construction is both damaging and unwise.

While of course the housing shortage in the South-east is in need of a solution, for the government to prescribe quick-fix, prefabricated methods is counter-productive. Its job is to produce policy, not to determine or specify the commercial organisations that carry out such policy.

Through inheritance, homeownership allows people to provide for their children's future. The homes that people buy today are expected and needed to last for many years. This is why a proven and effective house type is not only preferable but absolutely essential to the wider economy.

The housing crisis cannot and will not be solved by a quick fix. What is needed is not speed but quality, so that the newly built homes of today provide shelter, capital and social mobility into the future.