Social housing shortage to blame for homes crisis
Social housing shortage to blame for homes crisis
- 2003
- RICS Press Release (pr084)15 August 2003, (2) .
In its submission to the Barker review of housing supply, RICS has singled out the massive shortfall in social and affordable housing as the root cause of the crisis in the UK housing market. While private housing building levels have been well maintained over the last few decades, provision of social housing is now only 20% of what it was 20 years ago. The UK lags far behind the rest of Europe and currently has an average 10% or 2.5 m fewer homes than Germany, Italy and France, taking account of population size. The submission is available at http://www.rics.org/ricscms/bin/show?class=Policy&template=/includes/showpolicy.html&id=785&faculty=RICS http://www.rics.org/ricscms/bin/show?class=PressRelease&template=/includes/showpr.html&id=984&faculty=RICS
HOUSING SUPPLY
HOUSE BUILDING
EUROPE
PRIVATE HOUSING
Affordable housing
BARKER REVIEW OF HOUSING SUPPLY
In its submission to the Barker review of housing supply, RICS has singled out the massive shortfall in social and affordable housing as the root cause of the crisis in the UK housing market. While private housing building levels have been well maintained over the last few decades, provision of social housing is now only 20% of what it was 20 years ago. The UK lags far behind the rest of Europe and currently has an average 10% or 2.5 m fewer homes than Germany, Italy and France, taking account of population size. The submission is available at http://www.rics.org/ricscms/bin/show?class=Policy&template=/includes/showpolicy.html&id=785&faculty=RICS http://www.rics.org/ricscms/bin/show?class=PressRelease&template=/includes/showpr.html&id=984&faculty=RICS
HOUSING SUPPLY
HOUSE BUILDING
EUROPE
PRIVATE HOUSING
Affordable housing
BARKER REVIEW OF HOUSING SUPPLY