Ipsos housing survey shows support for Housing Minister proposals on social housing.
Nearly three-quarters of people we spoke to (73%) agree with Housing Minister, Caroline Flint's, proposals that unemployed tenants who are able to work and live in social housing should risk losing their home if they are not prepared to take up opportunities for support and advice in seeking work (73%). Equally, a similar proportion agree that more should be done to provide tenants in social housing with opportunities to become homeowners (72%). Six in ten (61%) agree that people who can afford to pay for private rental property should not be living in social housing.
People feel the most important factors that should determine social housing priority should be 'how long someone has been on the list' (23%) and focusing on those currently housed in inadequate accommodation (22%). The notion of prioritising based on key worker status is supported by just over one in eight (14%) and time spent in the UK is seen as the most important factor by one in ten (11%).
Labour is the party people feel has the best policies on housing (20% compared to 14% who said Conservatives and 5% who said Lib Dems), however, many people are not sure which party has the best policies (41%) and nearly a fifth say no one party does (18%).
Technical note A representative sample of 1,029 adults were interviewed across Great Britain betwen 15-20 May 2008. Interviews were conducted face-to-face and in-home.
