Dear Angela
A letter to Angela Rayner highlighting the changes needed to the government’s housing policy if the housing crisis is to be resolved. Dear Angela Congratulations on your appointment as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government. In a recent video you circulated, you said that the Prime Minister has given you three priorities,…
Public funding is the means to build/acquire social rent council homes
Andy Burnham’s speech in the Manchester People’s History Museum, in which he said that a government led by him would carry out “the biggest council house building programme since the post-war period”, has raised hopes that if he becomes Prime Minister there would be a change of direction in the government’s housing policy, with council…
Less than a quarter of housing association new builds are social rent
Inside Housing’s annual survey of the 50 biggest housing association builders gives a clear picture of organisations progressively abandoning their ‘social purpose’. In the absence of social housing grant from central government we were told that cross-subsidy was necessary to fund social rented housing. But as the concentration1 and commercialisation of the sector procedes apace,…
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