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The UK short-term accommodation association's (UKSTAA) research estimates that there are nearly 2 million potential homes for construction, with up to 1.5 million of them “deliverable” within the next five years.

Happy Tuesday, folks! If you need as much coffee as I did this morning, you had a good weekend. 

Let’s hit it.

On the agenda today:

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The UK has a housing problem, not a short-term rental problem, says the industry association there. 

The UK short-term accommodation association's (UKSTAA) research estimates that there are nearly 2 million potential homes for construction, with up to 1.5 million of them “deliverable” within the next five years.

Key caveat: If the government wants to pull up its socks and get to work. 

Its methodology involved analyzing 294 Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments, a study which every local authority is required to undertake to give an overview of the potential development sites within its boundary, as well as the government’s Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessments. These city councils are required to regularly demon