Difficult choices call for political courage
Last month I raised the contentious question of whether the Housing Crisis is of more pressing concern than the Climate Emergency. Since then our members have been discussing that dilemma with a couple of the Council’s cabinet members and they believe both issues can be tackled in tandem, though it will call for some tough decisions. Let’s start by getting a sense of the scale of the Housing Crisis. We know we have one of the highest ratios of house prices to average wages in