It's about time we had a good story about housing.
We've had plenty of bad ideas, and plenty of bad stories: Leaky buildings, cold damp homes, unaffordable property, overcrowding, sprawl driving motorway construction... Surely it is about time we struck gold and had a good story to tell about it?
Or perhaps, the real issue is the bigger story. The one we tell ourselves about property. If our approach to property, as told by this story, is basically a bad one, we're unlikely to have any good ideas.
If we want good stories about housing, we need a better story about property.
One that isn't grounded in an individualistic, scarcity-driven, extractive, exploitative attitude, but is grounded in a 'we together', less-is-more, regenerative, multi-generational attitude.