Yet again, you report on Brighton's perennial housing problem (The Argus, November 15).

The particular shortage of homes in Brighton, as Adam Trimingham hinted, comes about because of the way the economy in London and the South-East has grown disproportionately to that in the rest of Britain.

The whole problem is a symptom of the mismanagement of the national economy which has been going on for the past 80 years, allowing the North and West of Britain to decline while the South-East booms.

There are proposals to demolish 200,000 houses in the North.

Obviously some parts of the country enjoy geographical advantages over others but the effect is compounded by a national tax system which does not recognise these differences.

So businesses in the North and West suffer the penalties of being further from the main centres of population and economic activity is squeezed ever more tightly into the bottom right-hand corner of the country.

-Henry Law, Brighton