There's loads of houses being built in the UK (often of questionable quality, built for maximum profit, packed into minimal amounts of space).
It may still not be enough to match the demand, but the real problem is we don't seem to be building any infrastructure to support these homes.
More people and more homes requires more roads, railways, hospitals, police stations, power stations, sewer capacity, even reservoirs, and lots more. And this rarely seems mentioned in discussions of the housing crisis or rising immigration. And as a nation we're incapable of building infrastructure without cost and/or timescale spiralling completely out of control. See HS2.
It may still not be enough to match the demand, but the real problem is we don't seem to be building any infrastructure to support these homes.
More people and more homes requires more roads, railways, hospitals, police stations, power stations, sewer capacity, even reservoirs, and lots more. And this rarely seems mentioned in discussions of the housing crisis or rising immigration. And as a nation we're incapable of building infrastructure without cost and/or timescale spiralling completely out of control. See HS2.