Britain’s Housing Crisis Is A Human Disaster. Here Are 10 [Statist] Ways To Solve It
15th March 2015
The Guardian, of course, is determined to call upon government to solve a problem that government action caused, by land use restrictions and greenbelt requirements. When you lower the supply of something and the demand remains the same, prices go up, sometimes a lot. This is a concept to which people whose notion of economics begins and ends with Marx are impervious.
“Every day I cry,” says an activist on a stall in Stratford, east London, that is shared by housing campaign Focus E15 and the Revolutionary Communist party. “How many thousands of people are suffering?”
Personally, I think that anything that makes an activist cry probably has much to recommend it. But that’s me.