A new report developed for the Labour party has argued that community land trusts should be handed a greater role in transforming the lives of under-represented people and alleviating the housing crisis.

The report, Land for the Many, outlines a series of policy proposals to address what it labelled inequality across society “stemming from how land is developed for housing and other uses”.

Among its recommendations are a call for a Labour government to set an explicit goal to stabilise house prices, so that wages can catch up and the house-price-to-income ratio can gradually fall.

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