Behind every door is a story of success or struggle. But in Britain's broken housing market, too many are locked out, priced out, and the cost is counted in lives left in limbo.Britain isn’t building enough homes for the number of people who live here. Nowhere near enough.
It is hard for the parties to grab headlines on housing and when they attempt to - like the promise to build 300,000 homes a year or scrap leasehold or reform the private rental sector - they have not always proven particularly credible. Margaret Thatcher rocket-boosted the Right to Buy policy - an election winner but dubbed a long-term disaster by councils who are now operating in a post-Thatcherite landscape decimated of desperately needed social housing .
The Liberal Democrats and the Green Party say they would bring forward 150,000 a year. Labour and the Conservatives haven’t put a number on it. They would not only build on brownfield sites but also parts of the greenbelt, what they call the ‘greenbelt - areas of land not designated as areas of natural beauty but disused car parks and wasteland.
This includes scrapping no-fault evictions and building 1.6 million homes by the end of the next parliament.