1.2 million more dwellings than households – is that right?
The latest chapter of the Social Trends analysis produced by the statistician’s at ONS covers housing. It pulls together familiar data and will tell the cognoscenti little or nothing they don’t already know. But interestingly you don’t have to pass the first graph before widely held assumptions are challenged. It is taken as fact by the overwhelming proportion of politicians and housing professionals that there is a housing shortage. Well here is Figure 1. Pull the numbers apart and we…