JERSEY’S housing qualifications should not be reduced, according to newly appointed Assistant Housing Minister Sean Power.
He says that the market is overinflated and that locals are struggling to get on to the property ladder. This view appears to put him in conflict with his minister, Senator Terry Le Main, who has been in favour of a reduction to ten years.
Deputy Power (pictured) said that an internal investigation had recommended leaving the qualifying period at its present level of 12 years. But Housing’s stance on the situation was unclear this morning after Housing Minister Terry Le Main said that nothing was being discussed or decided until a finished report he had sanctioned was completed next month.
Speaking yesterday, Deputy Power said there was too much instability in the Island for the States to start ‘messing with the market’. He said that a recent internal review by the population and migration department was against reducing the waiting period for housing qualifications this year.
