This is possibly the most intelligent and authoritative article I have read on the subject in a long time.
http://www.egi.co.uk/news/comment-a-simple-solution-to-the-housing-crisis/?cm_ven=ExactTarget&cm_cat=EGDPM+Alerts+2017&cm_pla=All+Subscribers&cm_ite=%25%25%253dRedirectTo(%2540link)%253d%25%25&cm_lm=peter.birkett@howardkennedy.com&cm_ainfo=&cmpid=NLC%7cEGIx%7cEGDPM-2017%7cglob&sfid=701w0000000wsc7&&&&%25%25__AdditionalEmailAttribute5%25%25Fifteen years on from when I took up the chairmanship of English Partnerships, policy makers are still grappling with many of the same issues that we were trying to tackle then and which dominated the policy landscape in 2002, writes Baroness Margaret Ford, former chair of Grainger, the Olympic Park Legacy Committee and English Partnerships.