In this week's spotlight issue, Mason Boycott-Owen speaks to Conor O'Shea from Generation Rent about how the housing crisis is affecting young and old voters alike.
During this Battleground Yorkshire series housing has come up as a top issue with voters in every seat, surprisingly even more so than the cost of living, which pollsters say is the top of many people's minds when it comes to who they will vote for at the next general election. 'I'm really unsurprised to hear that housing is coming up everywhere,' says Conor O'Shea, inset, from Generation Rent, a group representing the increasingly large number of private renters in the UK.
The solution to this is slightly more nuanced than simply building more homes everywhere and allowing developers to build what they want, where they want. 'It has to be done in a managed and affordable way,' says Mr O'Shea, adding: 'Affordable being the key word here.
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