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Letters: Puncturing this Ponzi scheme is the only way, writes John Worrall. Starmer doesn’t have the guts, says Stan Collins. And Rob Harris doesn’t want to see capital gains tax applied to his home

Letters: John Worrall, Ed Brierley and Will Wright respond to an article by Kirsty Major on the struggles many face to climb the property ladder

Letters: Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article about the tussle between central government and local planners in Kent

Letters: To offer any degree of stability to today’s growing families would need prices to fall back to a realistic multiplier of local earnings, which this government will not do

Letters: Readers respond to Britain’s chronic shortage of affordable housing with solutions of their own

Letters: Professor Wendy Burn on fears that promises of spending on mental health services will be broken; Colin Dyer of WellChild on the failure to prioritise the wellbeing of the young; Rev Paul Nic...

Letters: John Worrall and former local authority architect Robert Dark on some of the causes of Britain’s housing crisis

Readers respond to calls for policies aimed at tackling homelessness and the high cost of housing

Letters: Guardian readers air their views on high property prices, a lack of affordable housing, and rogue landlords

Letters: Kate Macintosh, John Worrall, Frances Holliss, Robin Howell and Eileen Peck on a report calling for 3 million new social homes to be built in the next 20 years

Letters: Council tax needs to be completely revamped, writes John Worrall – and so does stamp duty, says Martin Weale

Letters: Ian Bretman, John Worrall, Tom Fyans of CPRE and Susan Major respond to John Harris’s article on housing

Letters: Will McMahon says it’s tax-avoidance schemes that are the real problem, while John Worrall believes punitive council tax on empty homes will help

Letters: John Worrall on the fundamental shift needed in home ownership philosophy, Barry Jones on community-led housing groups and Duncan Roberts on challenging conventional home ownership

Letters: John Worrall, Philip Kerridge and John Rigby on the problems that continue to plague Britain’s housing market

Letters: John Worrall says developers will not boost supply to the point where they have to drop prices and Alan Horne thinks a complete reset on housing policy is required

Letter: John Worrall says affordability is the real problem, but house builders have no interest in fixing it

Letters: Martin Walsh, Michael Ball and John Worrall respond to the party’s proposals to address housing issues in the country