Why Barker faces a fight on two fronts
Minton, A.
Why Barker faces a fight on two fronts - 2004 - Estates Gazette (0424) 12 June 2004, 52-56(5) .
Analyses government and Conservative assessments of the Barker review's calls for increased housing supply and more social housing to tackle the housing crisis in London and southeast England. It is not a simple choice between massive house building or massive house prices. House price inflation presents government with a dilemma, as house price growth is a motor of economic growth, although it prevents the less affluent from mounting the housing ladder. Government seems discomforted by Barker's advocacy of increased social housing and the Conservatives are against growing the housing supply and social housing. Notes that the head of English Partnerships, given a major role in master planning housing growth by the Communities Plan, backs a land tax to achieve the required growth. Provides a chronology of government steps to close the housing gap and a table covering construction of new homes and social housing 1980-2002.
LONDON
Affordable housing
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
HOUSING CRISIS
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND
SOCIAL HOUSING
BARKER REVIEW OF HOUSING SUPPLY: SECURING OUR FUTURE HOUSING NEEDS
HOUSING SUPPLY
LAND TAX
HOUSE PRICE INFLATION
HOUSE BUILDING
Affordable housing
Why Barker faces a fight on two fronts - 2004 - Estates Gazette (0424) 12 June 2004, 52-56(5) .
Analyses government and Conservative assessments of the Barker review's calls for increased housing supply and more social housing to tackle the housing crisis in London and southeast England. It is not a simple choice between massive house building or massive house prices. House price inflation presents government with a dilemma, as house price growth is a motor of economic growth, although it prevents the less affluent from mounting the housing ladder. Government seems discomforted by Barker's advocacy of increased social housing and the Conservatives are against growing the housing supply and social housing. Notes that the head of English Partnerships, given a major role in master planning housing growth by the Communities Plan, backs a land tax to achieve the required growth. Provides a chronology of government steps to close the housing gap and a table covering construction of new homes and social housing 1980-2002.
LONDON
Affordable housing
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
HOUSING CRISIS
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND
SOCIAL HOUSING
BARKER REVIEW OF HOUSING SUPPLY: SECURING OUR FUTURE HOUSING NEEDS
HOUSING SUPPLY
LAND TAX
HOUSE PRICE INFLATION
HOUSE BUILDING
Affordable housing