The National Housing Federation (NHF) said the dramatic
drop in development is due to uncertainty over the introduction of the Local
Housing Allowance (LHA) cap. The government was meant to publish a Green Paper
on the future of supported housing during the spring but this has not yet
materialised. The NHF’s survey of 69 housing associations which together
provide a third of supported housing revealed they had previously planned to
build 8,800 units of supported housing but now had a total pipeline of just
1,350. Those who provided additional detail in the survey said 71 schemes
representing 2,185 homes have been postponed, 19 have been cancelled outright,
and 25 existing schemes are threatened with closure. Read more on Inside
Housing.
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