“Build more houses” must be more than an empty slogan
The narrowness of the liberal viewpoint can often do the work for reactionaries. The answer to the housing shortages associated with migration is always "build more houses". Yet, not for one minute do they consider how this sounds to the people who live day to day with Britain's housing crisis.
“Build more houses” is an aspiration, not a policy.
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