Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee

Recommendation 27

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Assess adequacy of grant funding and private investment for social housing provision

Conclusion
The Government has failed to set out the rationale for the decision to focus the inadequate grant on developing affordable rent homes. There should be an early assessment of the adequacy of grant funding allocations within the remaining Affordable Homes Programme and how much social rent is to be supported, together 46 The Finances and Sustainability of the Social Housing Sector with an assessment of the role of appropriate private investment providing affordable rent or other forms of tenure in order to free up grant funding to better support more social housing provision.
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