> Yes it lets more people without money buy houses, which I can see why socialists don't like that Or libertarians, because government subsidies distort the ma

> Yes it lets more people without money buy houses, which I can see why socialists don't like that Or libertarians, because government subsidies distort the market and all that. > Taylor Wimpy owns 6,000 heactares of land. UK has 25 million hectares of land, ~2m in the south east. The problem isn't Taylor Wimpy owning all of the unbuilt ones. The London greenbelt is 500k hectares. That's a more plausible bottleneck. Considering 'London greenbelt' is just one dimension of regulation on housing construction and Taylor Wimpy presumably owns land outside south east.