I guess thats one way to 'Cheapen' Housing.... Demote it

Well, we all sat by our TVs, Radios and social media apps waiting for the outcome of the government reshuffle, but were we really prepared for the outcome?

Yet another Housing Minister bites the dust before the poor man's even had a chance to make a difference and to add insult to injury it was over 24hrs before anyone was put in his place.

Now a cynic would say that this lack of a replacement was because someone 'forgot' to fill the box on the reshuffle spreadsheet.... but coupled with the fact that the post of Housing Minister has been down graded, this is less of an oversight and screams more of the fact that the government don’t see Housing as a very important issue.

With the launch of Help-to-Buy and the loudhailer call for a regulation of the letting industry we'd been lead to believe the government had finally taken the housing problems in the UK seriously.............

However it would now seem they were just lulling us into a false sense of security that something was actually going to be done.

So what now for the millions of people who can’t get on the housing ladder and the millions of people still being ripped off by agents and landlords??

Well it would seem the answer is "tough" So what can this new demoted Housing Minister bring to the table... not forgetting Mark Prisk was at least a FRICS

Well Kris Hopkins is an ex-squaddie (nothing wrong with that at all) has previously been portfolio holder for social services and council housing.

His achievements included overseeing the delivery of housing stock transfer in Bradford and he has combined the roles with the Chairmanships of the Bradford Local Strategic Partnership and the Yorkshire and Humber Housing and Regeneration Board, so on the surface at least he does have some background and hopefully understanding of the UK Housing situation and what steps to take next.

On the other side of the coin however, his past voting history does leave me with a rather highly raised Sean Connery eye brow...

He was strongly FOR the increase in VAT rate

He was Strongly FOR EU Integration

He was strongly FOR University fees

This makes me wonder is we are going to see a strong push in a financial directing for Housing and the PRS? Will this mean more cost, more fees and more debt?..... We can only wait and see......