LETTERS

Housing priorities

Tom Forth thinks we need lots more empty homes in Britain [Dispatch, April 25]. Tom’s theory is that if we build enough homes, so that say, one in 10 are empty, then housing will become cheap again and we’ll all be happy and cost-effectively housed.

That is why homes in places like Kensington and Chelsea are so cheap, right? After all, 11 per cent of homes (one in nine) there