quite well, all the stuff on the thames gateway area, and we are a long way from blackpool when we discuss this, but i remember these developments intimately because i tried to double its when you don t have the transport that they are not viable for the developers, and when they are not viable for the developers, you cannot get the affordable either. but if you put in, say, crossrail, for instance, will enable is to do things that were simply not possible, and crossrail will enable developments to go ahead in parts of our capital that were not economically viable, and that is one of the reasons. so you will be able to give people access to the housing that they need, and that is what this is doing. that is where we have a huge programme of infrastructure, six and in £50 billion worth of investment overall in infrastructure skills to work on the skills and technology. look at what we are doing. that is
but the union barons will protest, but the winners, the winners will be railway staff who have a much sounder long term footing and a fare paying public. we are on your side in cutting the cost of childcare. we will make it easier to find a childminder and making sure parents make the most of their tax free childcare allowances. all of these costs and more, we will address in the clubbing weeks. today, i want to talk about the biggest single cost of housing expenditure, and that is housing itself. the price of housing away in a home in this year summer by an average 9.8% to £278,000, which is £24,000 higher than this time last year. in 2021, prices rose faster than wages. so that if you are one of the millions and millions of people outside the housing market