# Britain’s housing crisis won’t be fixed without a new tax landscape

- Source: Guardian Business
- Published: 2026-10-31T16:00:46+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/31/housing-crisis-fix-britain-tax-landscape
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/britain-s-housing-crisis-won-t-be-fixed-without-a-new-tax-landscape-6bd9d3/

We need policies that stop treating property as a store of wealth and that allow people to move home cheaply John Healey’s critics on the right and left accused him of dodging the big questions in his first budget . The chancellor failed to announce reforms that might tackle some of Britain’s chronic problems, they say. Healey’s scatter-gun budget, as the Resolution Foundation called it, was more

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