Recommendation 31

Many of the written submissions that we received focused on housing supply. The Chartered Institute of Housing, for example, made the case for increasing the supply of quality homes at social rents via government grant, because it would reduce overall government spending on benefits.44 The Local Government Association suggested steps to help councils increase housing supply, including: reforming Right to Buy rules to prevent further loss of stock; allowing local government continued access to preferential borrowing rates; and combining funding from multiple national housing programmes into a single pot.45 And Centrepoint advocated support for community housing initiatives and public-private partnerships to expand the stock of affordable rental homes.46