Government must increase social rented housing delivery to 90,000 homes year, say MPs

2024-05-08T12:13:00

Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee calls for ministers to set and publish target for social rented homes

MPs have called on the government to ‘support, regulate and invest in” the social housing sector in order to increase delivery to 90,000 social rented homes a year.

The cross-party Levelling Up, Housing and Communities committee has today published its findings into the finances and sustainability of the social housing sector.

It found that competing financial pressures are causing social housing providers to cut the amount they are spending on building new homes.

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