Housing

Building more affordable homes, tackling homelessness, and reducing the number of empty homes are seen by the public as key housing priorities for the next government.

A majority of the public support introducing rent controls for housing in England.

New polling by Ipsos explores public attitudes towards Great Britain

New research from Mitsubishi Electric and Ipsos reveals consumers want to support the environment, and there is growing consumer appetite for heat pump technology. It also finds a fundamental lack of understanding around energy efficiency, and underlines the need for the government to prioritise Net Zero awareness.

Retaining the Green Belt should come before meeting housing needs according to a new Ipsos survey for The Economist, but sentiment is based on wildly inaccurate perceptions of the extent to which England has been built on.

The study among homeowners Barclays believe are more likely to be in the market for making energy efficient improvements to their home and who chose to take part in the survey feel reluctance towards making efficiency improvements to their homes.

55% of Britons think Rishi Sunak's government is doing a bad job at managing the rising cost of living

New research for The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales shows that the public will need convincing that homelessness can be ended but share Homewards’ ambition to take more and better action to end it.

New Ipsos polling shows a big rise in the number of people who have seen their mortgage or rent increase - up from a third (33%) in January.