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Could building social rented homes save the government money?

Could building social rented homes save the government money?

December 19, 2021

The government spends more than £30 billion a year on supporting people’s housing costs through the benefits system, around 15% of its benefits budget. Couldn’t some of this money be saved if part of the budget were spent instead on building social rented homes?

Category: Housing | Tags: housing finance, housing investment, housing benefit

Over two million foreign nationals excluded from social housing and benefits

Over two million foreign nationals excluded from social housing and benefits

November 24, 2021

After the June 30 deadline for EU nationals to apply for settled status in the UK, another tranche of the population is now prevented from renting accommodation, getting homelessness help or receiving benefits. EU citizens who have not applied to the EU settlement scheme (EUSS), together with those who have arrived since the deadline, are […]

Category: Migration | Tags: migration policy, housing benefit, immigration checks, right to rent

The mess of government intervention in housing

The mess of government intervention in housing

November 22, 2018

Which housing tenure receives most subsidy? Inside Housing readers know that the question isn’t a simple one and that the obvious answer – social housing – isn’t necessarily correct. The quest for a full analysis has just been boosted by housing finance experts Peter Williams and Steve Wilcox, whose report Dreams and Reality looks not […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing investment, housing benefit, homeownership, housing associations, private rented sector

Government policy needs to return to building homes to let at modest rents

Government policy needs to return to building homes to let at modest rents

March 22, 2018

As the latest UK Housing Review is published, co-author John Perry describes how government priorities have shifted from direct investment in affordable housing to personal subsidy through housing benefit. If asked about how the government spends money on housing, most people would probably say they build council houses – but of course they’d be wrong. […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing finance, housing investment, housing benefit, housing policy

Social housing should cost no more than 28% of residents’ income, a report says, urging the adoption of a living rent. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Guardian

Experts encourage more social housing investment as a way to lower welfare bill

June 19, 2015

The case for more investment in affordable housing is growing. Two reports launched this week looked at the arguments for a massive programme of affordable house building and both concluded that more investment would significantly reduce the welfare bill. Wednesday’s report from social housing campaign group Shout and the National Federation of Almos warns that […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, housing investment, housing benefit, rents

Why the government’s 'long-term economic plan' should include building more social rented homes

Why the government’s ‘long-term economic plan’ should include building more social rented homes

June 18, 2015

There’s a strong economic argument for building more low-rent homes to address the massive shortage of housing according to a new report by Capital Economics for SHOUT (Social Housing Under Threat) and the National Federation of ALMOs. In fact there are two good arguments – that the capital investment boosts the economy and helps pay […]

Category: Housing | Tags: borrowing rules, housing finance, housing investment, housing benefit

Last December's housing protests at London's New Era estate. Image: Leo Neal/AFP/Getty.

Five ways low wage-earners are being banished from central London

April 25, 2015

London is getting less and less like the rest of the country. Elsewhere houses prices have struggled to reach 2007 levels, but in the capital they’ve already grown by more than a fifth. The price of a one-bedroom home in London would secure a three- or even four-bedroom house almost anywhere else. Because of its […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, housing investment, housing benefit, welfare reform | 2 Responses

The overwhelming case for new public housing

The overwhelming case for new public housing

April 9, 2015

John Healey MP and John Perry We face a housing and cost of housing crisis greater than at any point since the aftermath of the second world war. Britain is not building enough new homes, and the accommodation that is available is increasingly unaffordable to millions of people. It is a measure of a nation’s […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, borrowing rules, housing finance, housing investment, housing benefit

Cameron’s Migration ‘Squeeze’

December 2, 2014

Under pressure from Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight in February 2003, Tony Blair conceded that the number of asylum seekers coming to Britain was too high and pledged to halve them by the following September. The promise was widely derided, but Blair had done his homework: officials had assessed the impact of Labour’s 2002 Asylum Act, […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: migration policy, housing benefit, migration statistics, immigration checks, private rented sector | 1 Response

Private landlords will need to check the immigration status of tenants or face hefty fines under the immigration bill. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Archive/Press Association Ima

Six reasons why the UK immigration bill needs to be amended

February 11, 2014

When even the immigration minister struggles to enforce the rules, what chance do private landlords have? Mark Harper’s difficulty in getting to grips with his own immigration rules should give all parties pause for thought. Is it really sensible to extend the checks imposed on employers so that even trickier ones have to be carried […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, migration policy, housing benefit, housing market, immigration checks

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