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Housing
UK
Rent controls won’t wreck landlords, but record rents are wrecking renters
Left Field staff writers
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Rents are at record highs and still rising. The landlord lobby says rent controls would wreck the market. The evidence says otherwise.
OpinionUK
The housing crisis Andy Burnham can’t fix without breaking the banks
Brian Green
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Andy Burnham has made housing his flagship pledge. But the crisis isn’t a shortage of homes – it’s who owns them. Reversing decades of financialised property risks the very crash it was built to prevent, says Brian Green.