Housing Crisis Reaches the Marginals

With the election under a year away, strategists of all stripes will be sitting down and working through their campaign priorities for the months leading up to May 2015.  Taking a look through the new research published by Shelter, it’s going to be impossible for them to ignore housing. For the first time in a generation, the housing shortage is badly affecting the kind of areas that decide elections. The figures look at the number of private homes for sale that are affordable to three groups: young couples with children, single people and couples without children. The report looks at the entire country, finding 80% of homes on the market are unaffordable to working families on typical incomes. But when you pick through some of the swing seats, they are now among the worst affected. The numbers also nail the lie that this is just a London problem. Read more on the Shelter website.