social rent

Housing minister Kit Malthouse has announced a long-term social housing rent deal to increase the quantity and improve the quality of social housing.

Over the past six years more than 165,000 homes for social rent have been lost in England. This breaks down to 140,828 council homes and 57,869 housing association homes.

The government’s English Housing Survey suggests that the private rented sector accounted for 20 per cent of households in England in 2016/17.

The private rented sector needs to be ‘radically reformed’ to ensure that it can accommodate families raising children and people who are retired because young people face never owning their own home, according to the Resolution Foundation.