Burnham's Housing Boom: A Recipe for Success or Failure? The UK's housing crisis has been a persistent problem for successive governments. Andy Burnham's pledge to deliver 1.
5 million new homes is a welcome respite from unaffordable rents and dwindling social housing stock. The question on everyone's mind is whether he can deliver.
Statistics paint a grim picture: the average house price in England has skyrocketed to £300,000, outpacing average earnings by a factor of eight.