Councils Respond To Spending Review Housing Announcements

Responding to housing announcements in the Spending Review, Cllr Peter Box, LGA Housing spokesman, said: "It is clear that tackling our housing crisis will require an increase of all types of housing, including those for affordable and social rent alongside those to support home ownership. Not everybody is ready to buy, and with 60,000 people currently living in temporary accommodation and over a million more on council waiting lists, it is crucial that councils are still able to ensure there is a mix of affordable homes right for everybody. National housing reforms actually risk severely hampering the ability of councils to build new homes by taking £12 billion out of local investment in affordable rented housing by 2020. Councils need to be able to ensure genuine affordable homes continue to be built for rent and sale across the whole country for future generations and the millions of people stuck on waiting lists.” Read more on the LGA website.