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Simon Century, Managing Director of Housing at Legal & General Capital, will be available next week to look ahead, and react to the Autumn Statement.

He will be available to discuss:

• How political instability and uncertainty is driving the need to depoliticise housebuilding and shift to view housing as infrastructure, rather than a political bargaining chip

• How we cannot afford to stop building homes – the UK needs 350,000 a year to meet needs, but over the last five years we have averaged just over 200,000 and this is slowing down, not speeding up

• How rising interest rates hamper construction starts, with delayed construction and sites shutting down being markers for previous downturns

• How Labour’s concept of “new towns” is interesting and could provide one answer to fixing the housing market – providing a holistic and multi-tenure approach to housebuilding, which L&G has long advocated

• The role businesses and investors can play in increasing house supply and encouraging the building of diverse and community-focussed housing

“We need to encourage people to build all types of housing: every type of front door is important. The housing shortage crisis remains one of the biggest threats to the future of the UK’s economy as well as ou

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