The Government’s new Green Paper on social housing is a missed opportunity. It does little to address the structural problems which have caused the current housing crisis. There are no proposals to fix the broken right-to- buy system and ensure that social homes which are sold off will be replaced like-for-like in the same area, or to lift the ban on councils being able to build new housing (rather than going through housing associations), despite it being a socially beneficial investment guaranteed to generate a return. Crucially there is no new funding for local councils to provide more social housing. If the Government is serious about tackling homelessness and the lack of decent, affordable housing in this country, it needs to do a lot better than this. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/14/tories-houses-build-landlord-crisis-league-tables