I've posted a bit on the UK housing crisis & the major house builders role in the problem, but to be fair to them its worth appreciating that whatever their market-making limitations on housing supply, this is compounded by the energy bottleneck caused by the slowness (lack of capacity) of the National Grid to actually connect developments to power supplies.
This doesn't get the builders off the hook but it is a partial mitigation of sorts!
#Housingcrisis #energy
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/10/capacity-crunch-on-national-grid-is-delaying-new-homes-in-uk-by-years
Emeritus Prof Christopher May /
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