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Appetite for construction

Steven Howell from Localis urges government to reappraise the role councils can play in meeting housebuilding shortfall

The cost of housing has skyrocketed. This, as Rafa Benitez became infamous for saying, ‘is a fact'.

Shelter recently demonstrated that if food prices had risen at the same rate as house prices since 1971, then a whole chicken would now cost you the princely sum of £51 (presumably that's not even organic).

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