Affordable housing more in demand in the UK

Affordable housing is more in demand in the UK, a new report has revealed.

According to The Guardian, two-thirds of Conservative voters want their party to deliver more affordable housing and let councils buy up empty properties.

The report indicates that a recent YouGov poll reflects the public frustration with the housing crisis is now more evenly spread across the political divide.

The study comes after the levelling up white paper disappointed some housing campaigners in England by failing to set targets for increasing the supply of low-rent homes, which is seen by many as a key weapon in the fight against the cost of living crisis.

YouGov study finds most Tory voters want more affordable housing stock.

The report quotes Matt Downie - chief executive of Crisis, a charity for homeless people, who hopes that if there was a cross-party agreement across the political spectrum, “lower or no incomes” would “have somewhere stable to live”. Downie suggests that “one of the most obvious ways we can tackle the cost of living crisis is to bring down housing costs.”

It may be recalled that a study by Heriot-Watt University estimated that 90,000 more social homes needed to be built in England every year to meet demand.

Nonetheless, the Charity CEO’s is optimistic about this subject and said it was “heartening” that there was such support for increasing the amount of social housing built as part of new developments, which he said was “shockingly low despite there being an obligation [on developers] in theory”.

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