The Homes at the Heart campaign is urging government to put funding for new and existing social homes at the heart of the country’s recovery from coronavirus.
Only 11 per cent of new homes built in England are for genuinely affordable social rents, compared with nearly 70 per cent in Scotland and over 80 per cent in Wales.
Rising levels of homelessness and the increasing cost of using expensive bed and breakfast accommodation have plunged more than two-thirds of all council homelessness services in England into the red, according to new analysis by the Local Government Association
The amount councils spend on temporary accommodation has increased by 123 per cent in the last five years, while central government grants for social housebuilding have been cut.
Higher housing costs have reduced incomes and increased inequality as the poorest families have borne the brunt of Britain’s 40-year housing crisis, the Resolution Foundation warns in a new report.
The National Housing Federation is urgently calling on the government to increase LHA payments so that they cover at least the bottom 30 per cent of private rent homes in any local area.
Rules and processes used to decide who gets access to social housing could be failing people in greatest need, according to new research from the Chartered Institute of Housing.