Ending quotas is the road to ruin

2012-09-07T00:34:00

Grant Shapps

Source: PA Photos

In your report on the call to scrap affordable housing quotas (bdonline August 23) Grant Shapps asks: “Why is it in this country we don’t build homes specifically for rent, unlike almost everywhere else in the world?… We have buy-to-let but not build-to-let.”

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