Government ministers have been presented with a “traffic light” system to help them engage with the UK’s housing challenges. The National Housing Federation (NHF), housing charity, Shelter, and the Chartered Institute of Housing say they are holding ministers to account on broken promises over housing supply, homelessness and affordability in the private rented sector. In [...]
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Stamp duty and land use hamper UK housing market
Having researched global housing markets, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is claiming that badly-designed housing policies played an important role in triggering the recent economic and financial crisis.
The UK is among nine OECD countries showing huge increases in real housing prices (over 90%) between 1980 and 2008, with the rise reflecting income [...]
