Coalition Fails To Achieve Housing Goals

The coalition government has not achieved significant success against its housing goals and is building fewer homes than the previous Labour government. That is a key finding from a report examining the coalition government’s record on housing policy, published by The London School of Economics (LSE). The report, written by academic Professor Becky Tunstall, concludes that the coalition has ‘achieved no significant or ambiguous successes against its broader housing goals’. It said: ‘The key problems in 2010 of low housebuilding rates, reduced affordability and risk to the economy from house price fluctuations had not changed by 2015.’ Download the report from the LSE website.