A lot of parents I know have already passed on legacies from their own parents to their children, to help them with housing costs. I've recently done the same - I didn't need the govt. to tell me.
Successive governments would have done better to help lessen housing costs, by enabling/encouraging the building of more homes - and NOT just stacks and stacks of newbuild flats targeted at foreign investors who usually don't live in them or even rent them out,
b) NOT supporting house prices with schemes like Help to Buy - however well intentioned it has only helped to keep prices high around here,
c) stop flogging off council housing! Especially when there are so many families in cramped accommodation, and so many people on waiting lists. Why on earth Labour didn't put a stop to it I will never understand. The housing benefit bill is now I think something like £23 billion a year, much of which goes into the pockets of private landlords, instead of into maintaining and increasing stock. It makes absolutely no,long term sense.