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<h2><a href="/">Better late than never</a></h2>
<p class="feature_date">28 April 2023</p>
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<p>Councils must be freed to start building again, says Paul Bettison.
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<p class="feature_date">28 April 2023</p>
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<p>The real danger is that the downturn won’t be severe enough to bring land values down, says Toby Lloyd.
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<p>Council housing improved the lives of millions of people in the past century. We now have an historic opportunity to rediscover its benefits, says Glyn Robbins.
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<p>So much for 240,000 new homes a year. We’ll be lucky to build even 120,000, says Richard Donnell.
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