Most Tory voters want more affordable housing stock, finds poll

Last year, affordable homes accounted for just 18% of new housebuilding. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA Archive/Press Association Images

A majority of Conservative voters want their party to deliver more affordable housing and let councils buy up empty properties, according to new polling which suggests that public frustration with the housing crisis is now more evenly spread across the political divide.

Two-thirds of Tories in the UK want new-build developments to include more affordable homes and 68% want higher taxes on second homes and empty properties, according to YouGov polling shared with the Guardian.