London doesn't need more social housing, it needs more housing full stop

London doesn't need more social housing, it needs more housing full stop

Andy Burnham’s plan for a huge social housebuilding programme will be expensive and won’t solve the root cause of the housing crisis: we just haven’t built enough houses, says Emma Revell Andy Burnham isn’t letting a little thing like constitutional reality get in the way of starting his premiership with some big announcements. The de facto Prime Minister hasn’t met the King yet, never mind moved into Downing Street, but he’s already gone furthe…