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Housing 'should be a government priority'
Mon 01 Mar 2010
The Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) has urged the government to make investment in housing one of its main priorities.
According to the body, investing in the sector could have a number of social and economic benefits.
For example, it said the creation of new homes would keep people in work and allow the construction industry to retain skilled employees.
Jim Vine, a policy official at the BSHF, also stated that investment would ensure families have "decent" homes in which to live.
The organisation was responding to a report from the National Housing Federation, which said the number of households in London on social housing waiting lists went up last year.
Mr Vine said this demonstrates the need to continue investing in housing and to make it a priority area for government spending.
The NHF has also warned that a record number of households could be on social housing waiting lists by 2011.