Housing charity Shelter examines different outcomes of the UK housing crisis,from stronger rights for renters to mass housebuilding programmesAsk most people about housing today, and few will say they’re not worried. A private tenant concerned about the precarity; a family languishing on council housing waiting lists; an older homeowner worried their children won’t be able to afford to buy a home: few people judge everything’s rosy when it comes to bricks and mortar. But equally, or few people believe a clear view of what the future of housing holds. Could it be a continuation of rocketing house prices and unprecedented levels of homelessness? A crash that lets many people on to the housing ladder,while leaving millions of others in negative fairness? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com