James Yucel: More thinking won’t fix the housing crisis

James Yucel: More thinking won’t fix the housing crisis

James Yucel is Head of Campaigns at Onward and Director of Conservative YIMBY. Academics will not build a single home. Developers will. That ought to be the starting point for any grown-up housing strategy. Yet every few months someone very grand with even grander titles explains that what Britain really lacks is not cranes, capital or consents, but a higher quality of thinking. William Hague’s latest version in The Times is just the establishme…