National Housing Federation

The extra cash announced in the Budget to address the housing shortage has in part been welcomed by industry professionals, but they are not the wholesale changes required.

Landowners in England profited more than the global profits of Amazon, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola combined – more than £13 billion in 2016/17,  according to the Centre for Progressive Policy and the National Housing Federation (NHF).

Controversial plans to cap benefits for supported housing tenants and fund schemes through local authority ‘top-up’ grants have been scrapped.

Almost 500,000 private renters aged 50 and over made ‘drastic’ decisions to cover their rent, including borrowing money from their own children, family and friends, according to the National Housing Federation (NHF).