Housing Construction Today and Tomorrow
The output of Britain’s house building industry is currently far from satisfactory, with a housing shortage pushing prices ever higher and higher. There would seem to be a whole generation up and coming, to whom the concept of home ownership is something from fancy-land.
There are those who claim that governments thrive better on high-priced housing markets, but government also has a responsibility to ensure the population has access to adequate housing.
In 2004, the then government commissioned a review into the housing market by economist Kate Barker to analyse the lack of housing supply and the housing market’s failure to meet Continue reading Housing & Construction