Critics slam government's social housing plan

By Jamie Harris2018-08-14T13:35:00

Campaigners say no funding in place to meet growing need as government consults on social housing supply

The government has announced its intentions to expand the supply of housing in a consultation launched today, as critics rounded on its social housing policy for not offering up any new funding.

In its green paper ‘A new deal for social housing’, the government has set out plans to offer all tenants a way into property ownership through shared ownership schemes.

It notes that there are consistently over 1 million households on local authorities waiting lists, with an average household growth of 220,000 over the next few years requiring access to social housing.

Shelter chief executive Polly Neate said that the green paper was “full of warm words but doesn’t commit a single extra penny towards building the social homes needed”.

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