In its annual Housing Sector Survey consultancy Savills
identified a significant shift towards investment in existing homes. A poll of
138 social housing providers found that 30% expect the need to increase
spending in current stock to affect their development programmes. Stock
investment, driven by the building safety and zero-carbon agendas, was cited as
a top priority by 85% more respondents than in the 2020 survey. Those which have
crunched the numbers expect an average cost of £20,600 per home to get their
housing stocks to net zero, the research found. But 37% of providers have not
yet factored these huge costs into their business plans. Read more on Inside
Housing.
‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who
took on the housing crisis – and won
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When a group of teenage mothers were evicted from their homeless hostel,
Focus E15, they took over a tower block of empty council flats in protest.
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