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Survey reveals rising public concern over lack of housing

An increasing number of British people see housing as a problem, with a rising number of non-homeowners giving up on ever buying a home, new research has revealed.

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A survey this March of 2,081 UK adults found that 76% rated the availability of housing as a somewhat or very serious problem.

This was up four percentage points from 72% last year, and six up from the 70% recorded before the last general election in 2015.

Meanwhile just 71% of non-homeowners involved in the poll carried out for the HomeOwners Alliance and BLP Insurance aspired to own a home in the future.

This was down from 73% last year, and represented the first time in five years that the figure had dropped.

Quality of housing, house prices and the process of buying and selling were all rated as a problem by more UK adults this year than last.

London and Wales expressed the most concern about prices, while the South West had the most worries about availability.

Paula Higgins, chief executive of the HomeOwners Alliance, said the findings showed that “the housing crisis is deepening across the UK”.

“While we are used to stories about people not being able to buy a home until they are 40, the story has taken a turn for the worse, with people increasingly giving up altogether on the dream of homeownership,” she said.

Ahead of its official manifesto launch later this morning, the Conservative Party last weekend pledged “a new generation of homes for social rent”.

The Labour Party has pledged to build 100,000 “genuinely affordable” homes by the end of the next parliament, largely expected to be made up of social rent.

The Liberal Democrats promised to make all councils have at least one Housing First provider for “long-term, entrenched” homeless people.

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