Introducing Brick by Brick: Rebuilding Britain's housing

Our new series - by Westminster Editor Zoë Grünewald - will push for the government to go far beyond its promise of 1.5 million new homes, and to revolutionise how we see housing in the UK.

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The Conservative government has left the UK with a bigger housing shortage than the Blitz. It’s a startling statement, but it’s true: World War Two left the UK needing 750,000 new homes. The housing deficit when Labour came to power in July was more than five times that number - at a conservative estimate. But while t…