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White Paper Housing
‘Fixing our broken
housing market’
» » THE WHITE PAPER “FIXING OUR
broken housing market” sets out a broad
range of reforms that government plans
to introduce to help improve the housing
market and increase the supply of new
homes. (GOV.UK) In this article, Clearview
gives an overview of responses to the
announcement.
THE PROBLEM
Extract from the Secretary of State for
Communities and Local Government,
Sajid Javid’s statement on the housing
white paper issued on the 7th of February
2017:
‘For far too long, we have not built
enough houses. Relative to population
size, Britain has had Western Europe’s
lowest rate of house-building for 3
decades. The situation reached its nadir
under the last Labour government, when
in one-year work began on only 95,000
homes – the lowest peacetime level since
the 1920s. Thanks to the concerted efforts
of central and local government, last year
190,000 new homes were completed. But
that’s still not enough. To meet demand,
we have to deliver between 225,000 and
275,000 homes every year. In short, we
have to build more of the right houses in
the right places. And we have to start right
now.’ (GOV.UK)
Explore Offsite Housing
Urban Splash
Declaring the housing market as
‘broken’ the government announced a
pledge to invest in the offsite construction
industry. The Housing White Paper sets
out the government’s intentions to resolve
the housing crisis through a series of
measures with releasing more land, making
planning more accessible and increasing
productivity being the main solutions.
Accelerating construction and
increasing productivity through
supporting offsite manufacturing
techniques is a key objective that will
act as a catalyst for change in the wider
housing market.
The white paper recognised that the
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