Paul Richards, Katharine Hibbert, Joe Kassman-Tod and guests discuss politicians’ promises and the crucial
issues driving the 2010 election campaigns.

Today the subject is housing – and the lack thereof. With 4.5 million people on waiting lists for social housing, house prices now around 7.5 times average earnings and almost a million empty homes, something seems to have gone more than a
bit wrong. The Green Party’s Jenny Jones, Labour’s Jon Cruddas and Katy John from PricedOut, the campaign for affordable housing, tell us how they’d sort it out.