Daily Junction.mobi portalThe UK builds 200,000 homes per year against an estimated need of 300,000-340,000, with planning restrictions and nimbyism blocking development. Green belt land covers 13% of England but only 2% is actually green — the rest is scrubland, golf courses, and car parks that could be built on. Social housebuilding collapsed from 100,000+ per year in the 1970s to 10,000 in 2023, leaving 1.3 million households on waiting lists. Land value capture (taxing uplift from planning permission) could fund infrastructure and affordable housing without raising general taxes. The solutions are obvious — build more homes, reform planning, invest in social housing, tax land — but politicians fear the electoral backlash from homeowners. The housing crisis is a policy failure, not a natural disaster. We know how to fix it. We just lack the political will. Until younger people vote in larger numbers and demand change, politicians will continue to prioritise homeowners over renters, and the crisis will worsen. The UK housing market is broken, and it is time to admit it and demand the radical reforms needed to fix it.