New homes

19 March 2021: Government consultation

This response was published belatedly, after a consultation that ran from 14 August to 9 October 2018, alongside the Green Paper: A New Deal for Social Housing. The consultation asked the social housing sector and other stakeholders how local authorities could use receipts from sales of council housing to deliver replacement homes. Follow this link to access the consultation paper, a summary of responses and details of the government’s decisions on how Right to Buy rules are to change.

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2014:External review

The Lyons Housing Review was commissioned by Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband. It sets out to identify the constraints that hamper building of sufficient new homes to meet current and future demand.

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November 2013: NFA briefing

This paper makes the case for a change in borrowing rules for council housing providers. It argues that council house building should share the same financial basis as Housing Associations. This would boost councils’ capacity to invest in new homes, with many direct and indirect benefits for local and national job markets.

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