Local Housing Companies: Opportunities And Concerns

The Smith Institute has recently published the first in-depth analysis of one of the most significant new developments in the housing sector. ‘Delivering the renaissance in council-built homes: the rise of local housing companies’ estimates that around 150 councils have set up local housing companies (LHCs) over the last five years or so and that, on the current trend, over half of English authorities will have one by 2020. The majority of the current LHCs are in London or the South East.  The LHC model has been adopted by authorities regardless of political control. Download the report from the Smith Institute website.