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According to this BBC news article, the reason why the housing in the UK is so expensive is that there's not enough of it (duh!). We're building around 40,000 houses a year less than we need if we want to get housing down to an affordable level. There's two reasons for this - firstly, planning permission is much harder to get, and 8/10 construction firms are short on skilled people. Possibly we could teach some people trades rather than sending them to university?