Londoners on building homes and rising house prices

Is London just unaffordable? What can we do?

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00:00We have a real housing crisis in this country.

00:02There's only so many houses, you know, and you can only build them so fast.

00:06I think we have a population problem in this country.

00:12We have young people not being able to buy houses, not to start families.

00:16We've got a huge housing shortage and particularly in London in the South East.

00:23And we also need to build our economy.

00:33I'm not a big fan of really abrupt changes in anything.

00:38But I think this is one area where we need it now, an abrupt change in how we manage housing.

00:45I don't know quite the answer.

00:47I do think that is fundamentally required.

00:51How do we get our young people living like I did, you know, when I was younger?