People who’ve fallen through the net won’t get a home from Sajid Javid | Simon Jenkins

The secretary of state for community’s plan is ill-conceived. Public money should switch to social housing – to need, and not demand

This week’s housing white paper is nothing of the sort. It is a stew of fake news, old cliches and pretend solutions. The communities secretary, Sajid Javid, says the “housing market is broken”, parroting his predecessor, Eric Pickles, who claimed to have mended it. Javid’s policy tosses in the old saw that “Britain needs to build 245,000 new houses a year to mee...