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  • Just a few that come to mind:
    Further limiting grounds for possession, higher minimum service-length terms for landlords (but not tenants), controls on rent increases, rights of first refusal, moving council taxes and business rates onto landowners (proportional to land values), ending buy-to-let for existing dwellings, additional SDLT and land taxes on second/third/etc homes, cracking down on short-term lets, allowing councils to reinvest sales of social homes into new social builds.

    And on the financial side, various reforms to the mortgage market to allow long-term fixed rates and various other arcane fixes to undo the effects of market liberalisation, and adding a remit to the BoE to also manage housing inflation.

    I’d be in favour of multiple bank rates set by the BoE, with buy-to-let falling in a higher band, and governments able to tax back the difference from banks to reduce their incentive to prioritise lending to those who already have collateral.

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