Housing policy needs to be based on evidence | Professor Ken Gibb

UK politicians have a track record of making policy based on assumptions about how things work, rather than real researchBasing policy decisions on the careful use of rigorous evidence is not exactly rocket science, you might think, but it is something on which UK politicians do not have a good track record, and housing policy is no exception.Take the help-to-buy policy introduced in 2013 by George Osborne. There was little evidence to support the assumption that the UK housing market would be a