Budget: council housing remains a marginal part of the government’s housing programme
These are initial observations on the housing component of the budget. Despite the addition of £1.5 billion towards the Social & Affordable Homes Programme in the budget, council housing remains a marginal part of the government’s housing programme. We are told that the £1.5 billion will support the building of 10,000 “social and affordable homes”.…
Revamped Help to Buy – underwriting high house prices
“The IMF, Office of Budget Responsibility and the Treasury Select Committee have all warned that the government’s Help to Buy scheme will push up house prices but have limited impact on increasing badly needed affordable house building.” Jack Dromey, Shadow Housing Minister, July 5th 2013 The government is introducing a new version of Help to…
Social rent council housing should be the Government’s first housing priority
This is an article for the Red Brick Blog. Editor Rose Grayston has said that our campaign “is right that we don’t yet have the policy to meet Labour’s promise on the biggest council house building programme since 1980.” The first tranche of funding for the Government’s Social & Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP) has been…
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