Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 12
3rd Report: Building more social housing
Published 27 Jul 2020
Paragraph 89
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)
The Government should count investment in social housing as infrastructure spending, rather than day-to-day spending. Evidence shows that spending on a long-term social housebuilding programme pays back to the Exchequer over time. Furthermore, such a programme could be counter-cyclical, both protecting and creating jobs during a wider housing downturn caused by COVID-19 economic uncertainty.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 3rd Report: Building more social housing (HC 173), paragraph 89, 27 July 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 October 2020 (deadline 27 September 2020).