Verdicts · Housing
Housing referendums: how members voted
Settled referendums
50
since Jun 2026
Votes cast
20,922
all time, on housing
Last week
1,648
votes · 1 referendums settled
Written opinions
664
all time, left by voters
Best of each side last week
Most respected on housing in the last 7 days
Left
- RobThompson3 respects
- HonestCompass653 respects
Centre
- Freddi5 respects
- GlennDunwell4 respects
Right
- PureBlood17 respects
- BriskHerald226 respects
How housing results lean
This week—Last week—All timeCentreWhere every side agreed last week
Left, Centre and Right voters all came down the same way.
Most active regions last week
Voters
South East171
Scotland109
London105
South West103
Yorkshire99
North West99
East of England86
West Midlands79
East Midlands61
North East50
Wales40
Northern Ireland16
Votes each week
1,648 last week
37924 Aug
95531 Aug
7957 Sept
4,06614 Sept
2,40521 Sept
2,61628 Sept
4,6395 Oct
1,64812 Oct
All-time housing highlights
Biggest landslide
YES 81%
Should stamp duty thresholds be raised to boost the housing market?
81% of 1,082 votes went the same way.
Closest result
NO 50%
Should buyers compensate sellers if they pull out of a house purchase before contracts are exchanged?
Decided by 2 votes.
Most debated
YES 73%
Should migrant hotels be open to homeless people for food and shelter?
61 written opinions.
Last week
1 settled · 1,648 votes
0%
Yes
majority
majority
27% No
Votes1,648
Skipped36
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Should migrant hotels be open to homeless people for food and shelter?
The verdict
Yes won overwhelmingly, yet many who backed it did so reluctantly: one Yes voter wrote “I do not believe hotels should be used at all”, while the best-respected No case warned about safety for vulnerable homeless people.
Every housing verdict
- Should migrant hotels be open to homeless people for food and shelter?YES 73%1,648 votes · 17 Oct
- Should private rent increases be capped by law?YES 59%1,560 votes · 10 Oct
- Should stamp duty on buying a home be abolished?YES 62%1,602 votes · 9 Oct
- Would cutting new house prices by £50k boost home ownership in the UK?NO 52%1,477 votes · 7 Oct
- Should anyone sleeping outside due to their circumstances be classed as ‘vulnerable’ for emergency housing?YES 78%1,357 votes · 1 Oct
- Should the UK Government offer equity loans to first‑time buyers with deposits as low as 2.5%?YES 51%1,259 votes · 29 Sept
- Should the UK build enough social rented homes before allowing more private housebuilding?NO 61%1,256 votes · 28 Sept
- Should private landlords be allowed to deduct their buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage interest as a business expense for tax?YES 53%1,149 votes · 25 Sept
- Should buyers compensate sellers if they pull out of a house purchase before contracts are exchanged?NO 50%1,096 votes · 21 Sept
- Should stamp duty thresholds be raised to boost the housing market?YES 81%1,082 votes · 20 Sept
- Should the UK further deregulate planning laws to accelerate housebuilding?NO 58%951 votes · 18 Sept
- Should British citizens get priority for social rented housing above non-citizens with indefinite leave to remain?YES 75%937 votes · 17 Sept
- Should foreign non-residents be banned from purchasing residential property in the UK?YES 63%795 votes · 13 Sept
- Should ground rents on all existing leasehold properties be capped at a peppercorn (£0)?YES 77%473 votes · 1 Sept
- Will the Renters' Rights Act end up hurting the tenants it was meant to help?YES 61%482 votes · 1 Sept
- Should air conditioning be mandatory in all newly built homes?NO 57%379 votes · 27 Aug
- Is the decline in home ownership in England since 2003 a serious problem?YES 76%263 votes · 17 Aug
- Should Indian citizens be prevented from buying property in Britain until India allows reciprocal purchases by Britons?YES 71%194 votes · 12 Aug
- Should the Government embark on a massive programme of building council homes similar to post-Second World War?YES 58%175 votes · 10 Aug
- Should the government regulate private rents in England?NO 54%147 votes · 7 Aug
Show all 50 verdicts ↓
- Should developers be required to offer new-build homes under £500k only to first-time buyers for the first 6-12 months?YES 54%150 votes · 5 Aug
- Should the government make it easier for developers to build houses and infrastructure?YES 62%139 votes · 3 Aug
- Does allocating £92,300 per local authority from the Development Management Fund help speed up UK housing delivery?NO 72%140 votes · 3 Aug
- Is Angela Rayner's 1.5 million homes target realistic given worsening market conditions?NO 71%158 votes · 30 Jul
- Should landlords of student lets pay council tax on the property?YES 70%133 votes · 27 Jul
- Should the UK government promote structural timber to accelerate housebuilding?YES 59%112 votes · 26 Jul
- Is Labour's 1.5 million homes target realistic?NO 76%104 votes · 26 Jul
- Should Stamp Duty Land Tax be abolished for Pensioners wishing to downsize to smaller property?YES 67%124 votes · 24 Jul
- Should England introduce rent controls linked to CPI and wage growth?YES 60%121 votes · 24 Jul
- Should we be allowing the building of new housing on arable farmland and greenbelt?NO 73%117 votes · 23 Jul
- Should the government require buybacks of unsellable shared ownership homes to protect affordable housing stock?YES 71%107 votes · 23 Jul
- Should Andy Burnham launch the biggest council housebuilding programme since the post-war period?NO 53%19 votes · 22 Jul
- Should the government release grey belt land in the green belt for housebuilding?YES 54%74 votes · 22 Jul
- Should the government extend judicial review reforms to major housing, transport and energy projects?YES 67%85 votes · 22 Jul
- Should it be a requirement that all new houses built include solar and storage?YES 71%152 votes · 21 Jul
- Should the government limit repeated judicial reviews and set court timetables to speed up major housing and infrastructure projects?YES 80%83 votes · 19 Jul
- Should the new Prime Minister immediately confirm Strategic Partnership bids and top up social housing funding?YES 55%84 votes · 18 Jul
- Should the government redirect major housing investment to expand council-owned homes?YES 60%83 votes · 18 Jul
- Should the UK create a Cabinet-level body to oversee new towns delivery?NO 53%53 votes · 17 Jul
- Should the UK create a state-owned housebuilder to support construction during market downturns?NO 54%69 votes · 17 Jul
- Could rent controls improve affordability in England's private rental sector?YES 56%64 votes · 15 Jul
- Should England require neighbouring councils to prepare joint spatial development strategies for housing, jobs and transport?YES 56%84 votes · 14 Jul
- Should the government introduce Spatial Development Strategies to set 20-30 year growth frameworks above local plans?NO 51%73 votes · 14 Jul
- Should the government extend the Decent Homes Standard to all privately owned homes?NO 51%59 votes · 13 Jul
- Should the government introduce rent controls to improve housing affordability?NO 54%57 votes · 13 Jul
- Should the government relax planning rules to build 300,000 homes a year in England?YES 65%46 votes · 11 Jul
- Should the UK government launch a national housebuilding programme focused on social rented homes?YES 61%64 votes · 9 Jul
- Should the UK implement an annual property tax (removing stamp duty and council tax)?YES 70%30 votes · 4 Jul
- Should Cambridge introduce stricter planning controls on houses in multiple occupation?YES 65%23 votes · 2 Jul
- Should the government create a national construction materials strategy for new towns?NO 58%33 votes · 26 Jun