Housing issues will decide this election

Whether parties want it or not, housing is going to shape the general election

Housing issues will decide the next election

This is likely to be a year when we moved seamlessly from a budget to an election. As I write this in mid-September, newspapers are confidently predicting the contents of next month’s budget and it won’t be long before the media begins speculating on the date of the election. Whether a Christmas separates the budget from the election is a political decision; what determines the issue of the election is not.

Once the ...