Prisk took over from Grant Shapps as housing minister last September, and was the business and enterprise minister from 2010 to 2012.
Grainia Long, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), was reported by Planning Resource as saying that the former housing minister's tenure had been marked by a "commendable focus on delivery".
"Although progress on numbers of new homes has been disappointingly slow it is clear that the minister has been working hard to explore different delivery options and taking a personal interest in work to unlock stalled sites," she said. "His personal style was highly non-partisan demonstrating a willingness to search for solutions rather than a desire to play politics with something as important to peoples’ lives as housing."
National Housing Federation chief executive David Orr said: "Mark Prisk is a rational and thoughtful man who as Housing Minister was doing his best in a difficult economic climate. Always willing to listen to housing associations around the country, he understood the problems we were trying to solve.
"One of his strengths was that he focused on working discreetly with housing associations to try and help the country find its way out of its crippling housing crisis," he said. "Whoever takes his place must have a similar drive and look to maintain the good relationships he made in the sector."
Other changes include Lib Dem MP Don Foster leaving the Department for Communities and Local Government ministerial team. Labour's shadow cabinet reshuffle included the replacement of shadow housing minister Jack Fromey with Emma Reynolds.
