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3 million new social homes needed over 20 years
8th January 2019
A commitment to increasing social house-building could have significant effects on both the demand and supply-side of the economy. Housing affordability is one of the defining issues of the age. Ministers are being urged to back a huge UK social housebuilding programme. Investment in housing infrastructure is an important alternative to interventions such as rent controls which have also been suggested to address chronic problems of housing affordability which impact the geographical mobility of labour.
3 million new social homes needed in England over 20 years to solve the housing crisis. @BBCNews with the findings from our landmark commission report. #BuildSocialHousing
— Shelter (@Shelter) January 8, 2019
The time for the government to act is now: https://t.co/OqO2AEqMpv
📈3.1 million more social homes
— Shelter (@Shelter) January 8, 2019
💷 Saving £60billion in benefit costs
🏠 Putting social housing at the heart of solving homelessness and improving housing for us all
Join us and demand the government #BuildSocialHousing.
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England 'needs millions of homes to solve housing crisis' https://t.co/Nmq5HRLAKz pic.twitter.com/rcb7kAcOyz
— BBC London (@BBCLondonNews) January 8, 2019
Lots of interesting stuff in @Shelter's big new social housing report - will tweet the highlights. But striking that it goes out of its way to play down fact that we're in Europe's top three in terms of social housing stock (and bottom five in terms of ownership). See here: pic.twitter.com/i57q9xcYMk
— Robert Colvile (@rcolvile) January 8, 2019
The Government should spend £214 billion on building three million new homes to solve the social housing crisis, a new report recommends https://t.co/G3N0tSP77D pic.twitter.com/W20yiZFJBM
— ITV News (@itvnews) January 8, 2019
See also: What is affordable housing (UK Parliament research briefing)
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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