UK housing market: 'We simply aren't building enough'
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.
BBC Breakfast spoke to Rob Warm from the National Housing Federation who said a long-term plan was needed to address problems within the UK housing market.
"We simply aren't building enough houses," he added.