The housing sector has delivered its Housing Pact to the minister, Grant Shapps, promising creativity, constant improvement and a major contribution to economic recovery in return for government commitment to housing. The Housing Pact lays out nine ‘asks’ of the government and in return offers innovative ways to deliver more affordable housing with less money, make better use of existing homes and focus scarce resources on providing quality services to those who need them most. Sarah Webb, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) started by raising concerns with the minister that housing might be “on the wrong list” with number 10 and number 11 along with big government and expensive public services to be abolished. The CIH Housing Pact demands;
* Continue to invest in new affordable homes
* Scrap complicated short term programme streams
* Remain open to innovative ideas on supply models
* Prioritise retrofit
* Incentives to encourage investment
* Stop working in silos.
* Adopt the total place approach
* Don’t burn the bits of the system that work.
* Housing presence on the long term care commission
* Anchor reform in work of poverty commission.
* Reform the housing revenue account subsidy system
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