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Why the UK’s housing market is in such disarray

The dramatic drop in private and public house building in the UK rests on a significant imbalance between supply and demand.

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Demotix /Jonathan Nicholson. All rights reserved.

The market for housing in the UK is evidently badly out of balance. This Bulletin highlights with statistics and commentary the problems which have developed, and puts forward suggestions for policies to improve the situation which might be more successful than those being implemented at present.

House Construction  Set out below are the numbers of dwellings built in England per year on average during the decades since World War II: