Housemark have completed a useful analysis on the changes affecting housing:
In addition to Mark Prisk replacing Grant Shapps as Housing Minister the ministerial team at the Department for Communities and Local Government department has also seen some further changes.
Minister for Communities Andrew Stunell has been replaced by Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster, and Cities Minister Greg Clark has been replaced by Conservative MP Nick Boles.
Don Foster is MP for Bath and was a science teacher, an education lecturer at Bristol University and a management consultant with Pannell Kerr Forster. He is currently Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Policy Committee on Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
Nick Boles is MP for Grantham and Stamford and spent the first 10 years of his career in business: first as a merchant banker and then as co-founder and chief executive of a small group of companies supplying the DIY industry. In 2001 he set up the Policy Exchange, a centre right think tank, and is a Political Fellow at the Institute for Government.
Eric Pickles remains as Communites and Local Government Secretary.