In this co-authored piece, Jake Richardson helps me assess the recent increase in the adoption of the 5-year old ‘Build-to-Rent’ initiative which is being peddled as a potential solution to the Housing issues being experienced within the U.K. at present. The piece finds that one of the key outcomes of the recent moves is a demonstration that housing policy is too divided, which the piece suggests lays at the core of the issues within this particular marketplace. Earlier this year it was declared in the mainstream media that ‘ solving the housing problem is hard to deliver, hard to explain… [and] is an example of the weakness of our political system ’. This sentiment, which was used as a platform to suggest that cutting ‘stamp duty’ could be the most viable short-term fix, represents the difficulties that surround housing in the United Kingdom. In this piece the concept of the housing ‘problem’ will be used rather than the housing ‘crisis’, because even though finding solid de...