The housing Legacy of the 2010s

摘要

I've always felt ambivalent about "look backs" but a decade is a decent length of time to reflect on what's changed in major areas such as housing.Context matters. 2010 brought a general election that ended Labour's 13-year reign. The fall-out of the 2007-8 global financial crash was still all too evident; lending had been tightened and, outside London, housebuilding had almost ground to a halt and nothing was selling. The Cameron-led, coalition government set out plans to re-boot the housing market in a climate of localism, liberalisation and austerity while promising to be the "greenest government ever".