Home: why public house us the answer examines the structural causes of our housing emergency, provides a detailed critique of government housing policy from the 1980s to the present and outlines a comprehensive, practical and radical alternative that would meet the housing needs of the many, not just the few.

For three decades Government policy has been marked by an undersupply of social housing, and an over-reliance on the private market. Housing has become a commodity, not a public good. The result is a dysfunctional housing system that is leaving more ans more people unable to access appropriate, secure and affordable homes. 

The answer, as argued in Home, lies in establishing a Constitutional right to housing, large scale investment in a new model of public housing to meet social and affordable housing need, real reform of the private rental sector and regulation of private finance, development and land.