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Social housing providers can improve existing properties or build new – but not both

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Social housing providers can improve existing properties or build new – but not both

As published in The Planner on the 21 December

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Last week the government released the social housing lettings statistics for April 2019 to March 2020, as well as the English Housing Survey for 2019/20 – both hot on the heels of the social housing white paper. Martin Gladwin considers what they tell us about the state of the social housing sector and its role in meeting housebuilding targets.

The social housing sector has a vital role to play in the government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year, yet at present the number of new social housing developments is well below target, with only a 3 per cent increase in stock over the past decade, despite a strong political impetus, a pressing need to tackle homelessness, and 1.15 million households already on local authority waiting lists as of this year.

Read the article in full here.

Date: 22/12/2020

contact:

Martin Gladwin

Senior Associate - Head of Housing Consultancy

martin.gladwin@rapleys.com 07970 268663

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