CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
BY
HASSAN ABDULRAHMAN
1027489
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
MAY 2013
Domestic Housing Provision :Supply and Demand in the UK housing sector
INTRODUCTION
It was discovered that housing supply does not meet up with demand. Life expectancy rate is increasing caused by demands of housing of one person per households. (Wendy,2010). From research it was discovered that 1.8 million households on English Local Authority housing registers a considerable level of overcrowding in the private and social housing standard. Education and health are affected by poor housing .However it limits the ability of people to move and find work. There is a need to increase the supply of housing to tackle affordability issues for social housing . Moreover the critical social and economic role that housing plays, has not been able to meet up with political profile of Education and Health.
Alan W.E,(2005) What was intended to be a system where the state carried out development to ensure that the population were provided with a good standard of housing eventually became one in which the planning system was used to restrict development, particularly in rural areas .This resulted in higher prices as increasing demand was not met by increasing supply.
In 2007, the Government set a target of increasing the supply of housing to 240,000 additional homes per year before 2016.With the presumed target was a commitment to deliver at least 70,000 affordable homes by 2010-11 of which 45000 were to be new social rented homes .It was debated if this target would meet the demand and supply for new housing and deal with the backing of unmet housing needs.
The Uk Government recognise that homes Design need to be well made for homes, with the highest quality and environmentally sustainable. This can be applied to both traditional and conventional homes.
Also where needed to be more driven efficient and help to reduce carbon Emissions, be resilient to a future climate and
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