Shelter

The government’s proposed legislative programme unveiled in the Queen’s Speech has received a cautious reaction across the built environment community.

There is an estimated 210,000 children in England that do not have a safe home, a report out today has suggested.

New analysis suggests that £1.8 billion would have been cut from the housing benefit bill had the government built 100,000 social rent homes in each of the past 20 years.

A call has been issued today (8 January) for the government to build 3.1 million new homes over a 20-year period. The programme would extend the offer of social housing to more people.