Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 16
3rd Report: Building more social housing
Published 27 Jul 2020
Paragraph 94
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)
To ensure the programme can get off to swift start, we recommend the Government allows grant funding to be used flexibly to allow providers to purchase new build homes or homes close to completion from developers which may go unsold in a recession. We suggest the Government looks at the National Clearing House Scheme from 2008—which served a similar purpose during the last recession—as a starting point.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 3rd Report: Building more social housing (HC 173), paragraph 94, 27 July 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 October 2020 (deadline 27 September 2020).