Dealing with the housing crisis the wrong way

I admit I used to be an avid Guardian reader and believer, but since 9/11 when the cultural Marxists have taken over, it has ceased to become a newspaper in the proper definition, rather it has because a loudspeaker for its hard left, eco-nonsense, anti-semitic views. One particular example is this. Yes, I know there is a housing problem in the UK and yes, there are people fleeing war, persecution etc from Syria, Afghanistan and so on.  In this article, Dawn Foster suggests that we should build on the green belt.  As someone who loves the outdoors, I say this is a crazy article even by Guardian standards. She goes on to mention that there are 635,000 empty homes in the UK.  Whether that is true or not, there are questions about this

• Are those homes in a habitable condition?
• Can they still be homes now? That is, have they been converted to industrial or commercial use?
• Where are those homes situated? Are they in areas of high or low employment?

She mentions that Oxford has problems recruiting teachers due to high rent?  Why are there high rents?  And why are so many teachers needed?  Its all to do with supply and demand.  Demand comes from population growth and the source of this population growth is migration.

Why stop at building on the green belt? Why not build on river meadows? Why not build on arable and pastoral land? Why not build on the renaming wild spaces in the UK.  The UK should be looking to control its population growth, not looking to keep building and letting people in.