Housing Minister Grant Shapps said today it would be “difficult to imagine” a world where there is no government grant for housing. Speaking ahead of his keynote address to the Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual conference in Manchester, Shapps told journalists that he was aware of the sector’s concerns of a grant-free world post 2015 but said it was too early to make predictions about the future. “For a start there is the small issue of a general election between...