Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 7
3rd Report: Building more social housing
Published 27 Jul 2020
Paragraph 53
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 ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
There is compelling evidence that England needs at least 90,000 net additional social rent homes a year. We recommend that the Government publishes annual net addition targets for the following tenures: social rent, affordable rent, intermediate rent and affordable homeownership. This will improve transparency and accountability of the Government’s record on affordable housing. It will also make clear the contribution affordable housing will make to the Government’s 300,000 new homes per year target. This is crucial as housebuilding in England has only ever surpassed 300,000 in a year when social housing has made a significant contribution.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 3rd Report: Building more social housing (HC 173), paragraph 53, 27 July 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 October 2020 (deadline 27 September 2020).