UK Housing Market Crisis: Why It's Failing 🏠

The UK housing market is broken. Two decades ago, the Barker Review warned of inadequate supply, price volatility, and growing unaffordability. But Twenty-one years later, nothing has improved—if anything, the problems are deeper.

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0:00 Problem
2:35 Shortages
5:14 Solutions
6:30 Difficulty Moving House
7:49 Homelessness
9:20 Improvements?


Sources:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/housingpurchaseaffordabilitygreatbritain/2024
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/sales-new-build-homes-london-collapse-all-time-low-molior-sadiq-khan-b1248183.html
https://openpropdata.org.uk/the-uk-has-the-slowest-home-moving-timeline-of-12-countries/
https://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2024/02/uk-home-sale-times-are-embarrassing-claim/
https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/just-347-affordable-homes-started-in-london-in-first-quarter-of-2025-93240
https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/07/31/london-new-home-starts-slump-59-as-safety-regime-bites/
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing-england-2024-to-2025-individual-local-authority-data-outturn
https://england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_release/bill_for_homeless_accommodation_soars_by_25_hitting_28_bn_
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/articles/overcrowdingandunderoccupancybyhouseholdcharacteristicsenglandandwales/census2021


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