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Britain desperately needs more family homes – a tax cut might help encourage older people to downsize

  • Written by: Tony Crook CBE, Emeritus Professor of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield
Britain desperately needs more family homes – a tax cut might help encourage older people to downsizeOlder people often live alone in large houses with space they no longer need.fizkes

The UK’s current housing crisis manifests in several ways, with inadequate numbers of new homes (especially affordable ones), high house prices and rising rents.

There are major affordability problems especially for young people, and growing inequalities with...

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