Shiv Malik

And people used to complain, oh, houses are very expensive.

And that was when it was five.

Well, now it's eight.

And in London, Oxford, Cambridge, the people, places that are very economically successful, it's 11.

So, you know, you've got millions of young adults living at home with their parents.

Yeah, you can tinker around the edges and do some kind of fiscal kind of maneuverings and chuck extra money at people to give them a bit of an extra deposit.

But at the end of the day, yeah, that's what it comes down to, right?

We just simply haven't built enough homes for decades.

So immigration, yeah, has added more people to the country.

They tend to live in houses of multiple occupations.

So actually what you're doing is taking the same housing stock and just stuffing more people in, which isn't great for them and it certainly isn't great for everyone else.

But no, it isn't the substance of the problem.

Still, we're short about, on the kind of more conservative account, about four and a half million homes.

Put it this way, what's the worst that could happen if we build more homes?

It's actually fairly simple to diagnose in many senses.

So, you know, most of the kind of people listening who don't live in the centre of a city will have had some terrible experience with planning in their local area.

So they see homes being built on the edges of towns or in villages, and their complaints are basically threefold.

The houses are ugly.

There's never any infrastructure that comes with them.

So they don't get the kind of doctor surgeries or roads or schools to ameliorate the extra population.