Government housing strategy holed below the water line
As if Gordon Brown hasn’t enough on his plate at the moment, this morning he received a letter from the Home Builders Federation telling him that his housing policy doesn’t stack up. The letter sent by HBF Executive Chairman Stewart Baseley warns Mr Brown that he faces stark choices between the 240,000 a year housing target, aspirations for more affordable housing, private sector support for funding infrastructure, the zero-carbon target and a selection of other policy objectives such as lifetime…