Malthouse To Face Commons Committee Over Green Paper

Housing minister Kit Malthouse gets quizzed next week over the Social Housing Green Paper by the Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee. The paper outlined five principles as the basis for future policy, focusing on expanding housing supply and home ownership, improving quality, and providing effective support for residents and complaint resolution. In an evidence session set for next Wednesday (Oct 31), the committee will test Malthouse as to how effectively the Green Paper provides mechanisms to resolve the challenges it sets out, as well as questions on the funding needed to build more social housing, the role of the proposed Regulator of Social Housing, and how the perception of social housing as an option of last resort or a ‘springboard’ can be changed. Read more on 24housing.

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