It doesn't take much imagination to understand that the handful of companies who control house-building and therefore house prices might have a variety of reaso

It doesn't take much imagination to understand that the handful of companies who control house-building and therefore house prices might have a variety of reasons to slow down the building of houses that have nothing do to with direct profit. Because they exert power over more than just the market price by doing so. But since you're imagining words into my mouth you ought to have the imaginative capacity to figure that out for yourself.