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Britain’s housing crisis has shredded the social contract

The failure to provide plentiful, quality and affordable housing is a damning indictment of the political class.

In Britain today, trust between the people and those who rule us is now on life support. The social contract – an implicit agreement between citizens and state, where the former obeys the laws of the latter in return for the provision of certain, basic needs – lies in tatters. Nothing illustrates the severity of this breakdown as clearly as the housing crisis.

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