For many, August is a time to break out the travel guide as thoughts turn to holidays and broadening horizons.

Minneapolis, on the banks of the Mississippi River in America’s mid-west, might not be a common holiday destination - unless, perhaps, you want to visit Mall of America, the largest in the USA - but it can teach us a lot about the role of housing supply in improving affordability.

In 2018, in an effort to see more new homes built, Minneapolis introduced a new urban plan abolishing the single-family zoning which covered around 70% of the city that had made it all but impossible to build large numbers of homes in those area.