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Housing is more expensive because more people want to live there then the supply provides for.

There's a simple solution. It's not sprawling suburbia, it's to build London at an appropriate density for a global city.

Westminster (with plenty of green space including Hyde and Regents Parks) has a population of 123 per hectare.

If London matched that throughout its area there would be room to double London's population with another 10 million people. If Inner London alone was increased to Manhattan density, that alone would house 5 million more people.

But then things like this happen

https://www.onlondon.co.uk/will-grant-shapps-get-away-with-b...