A Home of Their Own
Presented by John Vaizey
Housing goes on year after year, government after government, not getting better but getting progressively irorse.
(LORD GOODMAN. Chairman of the Housing Corporation)
Despite special mortgage schemes, rent rebates and improvement grants, millions of people are still living in conditions unfit for human habitation. The present Government has launched a full-scale housing review and its findings are expected early next year. How relevant are traditional assumptions about housing needs? Are current ideas too rigid? Can we devise a policy which will stop the situation getting progressively worse? Producer MICHAEL GREEN