Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Conclusion 5
3rd Report: Building more social housing
Published 27 Jul 2020
Paragraph 44
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Long-term delivery of social and affordable rented housing All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
We agree with the Public Accounts Committee that the Government missed a crucial opportunity to alleviate the housing crisis through its disposal of public land. While we understand the constraints around managing public money, it is nonetheless short-sighted to sell public land to the highest bidder when social housing providers struggle with the cost of land. The programme has not addressed the housing shortage nor the social housing shortage.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 3rd Report: Building more social housing (HC 173), paragraph 44, 27 July 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 October 2020 (deadline 27 September 2020).