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Ed Miliband identified similar issues and criticized developers for 'land banking', the process whereby housebuilders buy up land and fail to build on it as they wait for it to rise in value.

the Beveridge Report of that year, which underpinned the future of the welfare state by taking aim at the five social evils of want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness

giving permission for land to be built on immediately makes it soar in value (this is known as 'betterment')

I managed to inveigle my way into the London Real Estate Forum

I kept going to the window, opening the transom