BBC: "Housing report critical of government 'short termism'"

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"Successive governments have failed to produce a coherent long-term strategy for housing, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has said.

"In a report, the Rics housing commission said some of the coalition's policies were providing short-term help for the house-building industry.

"But it argued that ministers' lack of consistency over the past 50 years has exacerbated the failures of the market."