Housing

By four to one the public think that there is a housing crisis in Britain according to an Ipsos poll published in the Evening Standard yesterday.

More than 80% of housing associations anticipate that the introduction of direct payments to tenants will affect their organisation a great deal or a fair amount.

The top 10 issues across this month exactly match the top 10 issues across 2012, indicating that the public's priorities are unshifting as we go into the new year.

Ipsos carried out a poll for the Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ) on public attitudes to and awareness of land value tax (LVT).

According to the latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence tracker, more people expect house prices to rise than fall over the coming twelve months.

Ipsos's aggregated data from all 12 months of our 2012 Issues Index surveys, with the most important issues broken down by gender, age, ethnicity, social class and by voting intention. This is based on a total of more than 10,000 interviews, aggregated from the 12 individual polls.

Our final Issues Index of 2012 shows the list of issues of most concern to the British public in the run up to Christmas, with a comparison to the local issues that fill up MP's postbags.

As the Bank of England welcomes the appointment of a new governor, concern about the economy shows no sign of abating, with the well off especially concerned.

Public continues to expect house prices and private rents to increase in the next 12 months according to the October Housing Market Consumer Confidence survey by Ipsos for the Halifax.