Zaha Hadid Architects director Patrik Schumacher has mapped out a solution to London's housing crisis that involves getting rid of regulations, privatising all public space and scrapping social housing.
Speaking at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin, the architect presented an eight-point plan for what he would do if elected mayor, in a bid to make the city's housing provision more efficient.
He also advocated foreign investment into property and gentrification. He claimed these would all help London to address its "affordability crisis".
"We do not have a real market in real-estate provision, that's why we have a housing crisis," he said. "Housing for everyone can only be provided by freely self-regulating and self-motivating market process." Schumacher criticised the press for demonising foreign investors who buy second homes in the city. He said that these figures should be welcomed, even if their properties are left empty for several months of the year.
"Foreign investment capital coming into town should and would be great news," he said.
"I know a lot of people that have second homes in London and I'm so glad they do," he continued. "Even if they're here only for a few weeks and throw some key parties, these are amazing multiplying events."

Schumacher made the comments during a keynote speech at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin, which can be watched here in full
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