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Why building new towns isn’t the answer to the UK’s housing crisis

By Amrita Kulka, Assistant Professor, Political Economy and Public Economics, University of Warwick
Nikhil Datta, Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Warwick

The UK’s new government is intent on building 1.5 million homes over the next five years. It’s all part of the plan to address the housing supply and affordability crisis.

Many of these homes are to be built in the form of large communities or new towns of more than 10,000 housing units each.…

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