Report highlights growing problems around UK housing

Future housing development in the UK should be split into two separate entities for trading land and building houses, similar to the banks approach to ring-fencing its retail operations from 'casino-banking', according to the IPPR.

In a report published today on the growing problems surrounding UK housing demand, the policy reform think tank suggests that there is a chronic level of "underdelivery" within the UK housebuilding sector for years, and the current recession has only exacerbated the growing crisis between land ownership and house prices.