The Housing White Paper must be the vehicle for building
the affordable homes that "just about managing" households need. This
requires a coherent and co-ordinated plan across investment, land, planning and
construction:
·
The public sector must release land quicker and
on a greater scale
·
We should push brownfield land and turn existing
planning permissions into active builds through "use it or lose it"
powers.
·
We can help older people who wish to downsize to
do so
·
We must embrace new technologies, such as
offsite manufacturing, to make housebuilding faster and more efficient
·
We must unleash the latent investment capacity
of councils and housing associations, even if that jars with political ideology,
because they are the best-fit deliverers of affordable housing.
Read more on the RICS website.
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