The Loss Of Our Low Rent Homes

It is challenging to predict the impact that the some of the Government’s housing policies might have on genuinely affordable homes in the future, but by looking at both present circumstances and what has happened in the past, we have been able to estimate the effect of three policies which we see as potentially having a large impact on homes for people with low incomes:

·         Extension of the Right to Buy for housing association tenants;

·         The forced sell-off of council homes;

·         The transfer of Section 106 contributions away from providing affordable homes for rent towards affordable home-ownership products, such as Starter Homes and shared ownership.

Looking five years into the future, what impact could these policies have on the number of low cost rented homes? Read more on the Shelter blog.