Govt housing policy ''must be made clearer''
Date posted: 13 Feb 2010
The UK needs a clear understanding of how housing policy will develop over the next few years, a major association has claimed.
Brian Berry, director of external affairs at the Federation of Master Builders, has suggested that the number of new builds being worked on will fall until after the general election, where there will be more certainty in this area.
He claimed that the UK is currently facing a housing crisis where far fewer homes are being built than are in demand, which could place an upward pressure on prices.
The UK needs a clear understanding of how housing policy will develop over the next few years, a major association has claimed.
Brian Berry, director of external affairs at the Federation of Master Builders, has suggested that the number of new builds being worked on will fall until after the general election, where there will be more certainty in this area.
He claimed that the UK is currently facing a housing crisis where far fewer homes are being built than are in demand, which could place an upward pressure on prices.
"What we have now is a housing crisis in this country where we are actually building less than half the required figure," he explained.
Mr Berry said that, while the rest of the country is exiting the recession, house building is still suffering falling workloads and the threat of future job losses.
Recent research by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has found that 12 per cent more of its members have registered falling workloads in February than in the final quarter of 2009, which could lead house prices to rise.
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