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    Home Truths: The UK's chronic housing shortage – how it happened, why it matters and the way to solve it
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    Home Truths: The UK's chronic housing shortage – how it happened, why it matters and the way to solve it

    By Liam Halligan

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    The UK’s chronic housing shortage is lowering the quality of life for millions, turning the British dream of home ownership into a cruel nightmare – not least for ‘generation rent’. Countless vulnerable families are meanwhile being deprived of access to decent social housing, causing homelessness to spiral.

    In this searing polemic, Liam Halligan offers radical solutions to the most urgent political issue of our times. Fully updated, with a foreword from former Chancellor Sajid Javid and drawing on extensive interviews with Cabinet ministers, civil servants, leading developers and struggling homebuyers across the country, Home Truths is a no-holds-barred critique of the UK’s housing crisis.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBiteback Publishing
    Release dateJan 13, 2021
    ISBN9781785904820
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    Home Truths: The UK's chronic housing shortage – how it happened, why it matters and the way to solve it
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    Liam Halligan

    Liam Halligan has written his multiple award-winning ‘Economic Agenda’ weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph since 2003. He has also worked for The Economist, the Financial Times, CNN and Channel 4 News and is a presenter on Channel 4 Dispatches. He holds economics degrees from the Universities of Warwick and Oxford.

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