ngland’s housing crisis has been talked about so often that it has become routine and has lost the power to shock. Yet the underlying reality is not only shocking but deeply shameful – around eight million people living in overcrowded, unaffordable or unsuitable homes, a rising tide of rough sleepers, a record number of children living in temporary accommodation, rapidly growing numbers of people over 55 living in insecure privately rented homes, and a generation of middle-income earners who feel locked out of any
