An incredibly frustrating thing about the housing crisis is that the solution is obvious – and yet, it’s beyond our reach.  The obvious solution is to let buyers and sellers come together. There is one group of people who want to buy houses, and another group of people who’d happily sell some land to build it on if the price was right. But the deals don’t get done, because planning laws make it hard to sell land and build houses.  Building houses isn’t like building furniture. Planning laws exist because building a home impacts more than just the buyer and…

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