Five of the country's leading housing and economic experts are banding together to form a task force with the aim of breaking the boom-bust cycle in the UK property market.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has pulled together the likes of Bank of England policymaker Kate Barker and Acadametrics chairman Dr Peter Williams to attempt to tackle the root causes of instability in the market. The Housing Market Taskforce also includes JRF chief executive Julia Unwin, Keith Exford, chief executive of the Affinity Sutton Group and Elaine Kempson, director of the Personal Finance Research Centre at Bristol University. "There is a desperate need to protect the most vulnerable households from the devastating consequences of extreme fluctuation in the market," U...
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