If your problem is with land use, especially UK land use in cities, it’s much more the zoning and planning permission that’s to blame: if anything there’s too l

If your problem is with land use, especially UK land use in cities, it’s much more the zoning and planning permission that’s to blame: if anything there’s too little landowner control and too much social control (at least, social control of the wrong sort.) Building new housing supply into an overpriced market is generally quite profitable, and will be pursued by private landowners when not illegal.