Safe as Houses

‘Safe as Houses: Why Investment in Social Housing is Great for Us and Our Economy’ is the title of a publication by Shelter here.

It sets out the economic and fiscal case for investing in social homes and includes analyses of how the housing emergency is damaging our economy. It offers insights into how social housing stimulates productive investment and an efficient labour market.

Polly Neate CBE, Chief Executive Officer, Shelter wrote in a foreword to the document “Unless there is a wish to repeat the neglect of previous parliaments, this government must pull the lever on the essential missing component needed to end the housing emergency: a mass scale investment in social rent homes. This is the only way the government will deliver the 90,000 social homes a year for 10 years needed to end homelessness and house the majority of households on the  waiting list.”