UK Housing Policy: An Interview with Stephen Hill

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<p>Professor Ambrose asks about the role of the market in determining policy. Stephen provides an overview of systemic failure as a result of allowing the market to provide what are essentially government responsibilities. The distribution of investment, risk and reward has been distorted from a balanced public/private model to a more heavily market-oriented model &ndash; losing this balance has had long term serious consequences &ndash; including a range of &lsquo;exported costs&rsquo; resulting from inadequate and poor quality development &ndash; as in the case mentioned.</p> <p>&nbsp;Z2K Housing Review April 2009 Issue One: <a target="_blank" href="http://news.humanrightstv.com/z2k-housing-review-april-2009">Contents</a> </p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://news.humanrightstv.com/z2k-2009-budget-response">See the Z2K Response to the 2009 UK Budget</a></p>