News of the government’s new housing strategy to boost the supply of homes failed to impress Estates Gazette readers this week.
More than 100 of you responded to the latest EG Big Question in Association with Colliers International and Irwin Mitchell Solicitors to give your views on the initiative, which includes setting up a £400m fund aimed at reviving stalled schemes.
Nearly two-thirds of respondents (60.9%) said that housing was still not high enough on the government’s political agenda and even more (65.8%) said the cash was not enough to make a real difference.
“The government should stop distorting the market by short-term interference in micro areas,” said one respondent.
“This seems to be a strategy rushed out in response to the appalling housing completion figures for this quarter and will have little impact on the stagnation in the housing market proper,” said another.
However, significantly fewer than half of the respondents (36%) favoured a return to Labour’s housing strategy.
