The two government departments whose policies impact directly on the housing sector haven’t got a clue what they are doing but for very different reasons, writes 24housing Editor Jon Land. If the Government’s recent housing stimulus package has that familiar whiff of desperation about it you can attribute it to two things. The first is that it has lost the plot where economic growth is concerned and is now clinging to the hope that housebuilding may prove the panacea. The second is th...