A piece on the Today Programme just now

is an example of the pervasive idiocy about housing. Throughout the idea that people should own where they live was unchallenged, so discussion focused on availabity of mortgages or lack thereof and the difficultly of getting to a stable market for houses. None of those involved - the mortgage specialist, the campaigner, least of all John Humphrys, thought to raise the issue of the supply of housing. Maybe I am being unfair in thinking that local amenity / civic societies can think any better.