Housing shortage in a land of plenty
Repurposing the many vacant buildings around the country would go a long way to solving the housing crisis
The famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge titled The Rime of The Ancient Mariner has a line in it: Water, water every where, nor any drop to drink. It’s about a sailor surrounded by salt water that he can’t drink, and is a metaphor for being among plenty, but being unable to partake of it.
Our housing market is perhaps best surmised in the same way. We have loads of ‘housing’, we even ...
