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Government support for housing investment in England, pre-Budget
Source: Based on UK Housing Review 2021, table 2.4.1.

Affordable housing investment to lead the way out of the crisis?

November 24, 2021

The UK Housing Review’s annual assessment of government support for housing investment and what proportion goes towards affordable housing showed a significant shift this year. In Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland most support (between 74 and 100 per cent) goes towards affordable housing, whereas in England most has gone to private housing. In 2020, three-quarters […]

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

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The Tony Blair Institute is wrong – we do need to build more homes to solve the housing crisis

August 30, 2019

Last week’s report suggesting supply is not the answer to the housing crisis is just the latest in a series to make this claim, but it remains misleading.

Category: Housing | Tags: housing policy, housing market

UK social housing performance over the last 30 years

UK social housing performance over the last 30 years

December 6, 2018

An article to celebrate 30 years of the magazine Social Housing. Social Housing magazine was a child of its time. Created in 1988 just as housing associations’ access to private finance was formalised, it was there both to report on what was happening and to provide guidance to everyone involved. It was a time of […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing investment, housing policy, housing associations | 2 Responses

How do we build 100,000 social rented homes each year?

December 5, 2018

Crisis and the National Housing Federation have just published a new report showing that 100,000 social homes are needed across Great Britain. With all but 10,000 of those needed in England, the biggest challenge will be to the Westminster government and will require a step-change in how it delivers housing.  The high numbers reflect the […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, housing investment, housing policy

Encouraging messages, now Labour must work on the detail

Encouraging messages, now Labour must work on the detail

April 28, 2018

Jeremy Corbyn launched Labour’s affordable housing green paper last Thursday, promising one million new homes over ten years of which a significant number would be for social rent. The ambition was clear: funding will be restored to the level when Labour last held office, and councils will once again become “major deliverers” of social housing. […]

Category: Housing | Tags: council housing, borrowing rules, housing investment, housing policy, rents, housing associations | 1 Response

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

armed forces housing

Another housing privatisation disaster

February 15, 2018

When the Ministry of Defence sold its armed forces housing in 1996, it already looked a bad deal: 57,000 houses were sold for £30,000 each, well under half the average house price at the time. Overnight, the sale created Britain’s biggest private landlord and gave it a blue chip tenant – the MoD. Yet the […]

Category: Housing | Tags: private rented sector, housing policy, stock transfer | 1 Response

The election result may have more to do with housing than we think

June 16, 2017

Housing is often ‘the dog that doesn’t bark’ in elections but last week could it have been nipping away in the background? One of the most striking pieces of analysis of how Britain voted came from the Financial Times, which showed how pro-Conservative or pro-Labour voters were divided by age group. Those in their middle […]

Category: Housing | Tags: homeownership, private rented sector, housing policy

Housing in South Cambridgeshire

Focusing on the ‘JAMs’

April 18, 2017

Few of the Government’s current investment initiatives address the housing affordability issues faced by the ‘just about managing’, but there are measures that could be taken without extra spending. Rather unusually, and surely for the first time in several years, a government housing policy statement has been welcomed by the industry and by most lobbyists. […]

Category: Housing | Tags: housing policy

Northern Ireland’s distinct housing market

Northern Ireland’s distinct housing market

July 4, 2016

CIH has just published a brand new edition of the book Housing in Northern Ireland, edited by Peter Shanks and David Mullins. Here CIH policy adviser John Perry, one of the authors, gives a flavour of what the new book offers. Less than ten years ago there was a house-building boom in Northern Ireland. Completions […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: housing investment, migration statistics, housing policy

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