Posted 26.10.16
Housing Europe concluded its 'Housing for All' campaign and brought evidence-based proposals to the Habitat III table in Quito that make the case for affordable housing in the centre of the New Urban Agenda.
The new housing related policies should be based on Flexibility, Investment and Cooperation. A global commitment drawn on these three axes may ensure that social housing providers are future proofed within a challenging context, so that can keep delivering more and better homes for all at a faster pace.
The 'Housing for All' campaign has illustrated the diverse positive impact of public, cooperative and social housing providers that:
Housing Europe will continue making the case through its active involvement in the Housing Partnership of the Urban Agenda for the EU, a platform of cross-sectoral cooperation on urban issues across Europe, that affordable housing provision should be among the core elements of policy making.
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Posted 04.10.16
The following is an extract from the speech of Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, addressing the Conservative Party Conference on 3rd October.
"Ultimately, we have a responsibility to build more houses. A responsibility, not just to our constituents, but to the next generation.
"It is for that reason that we are going to take unprecedented steps to open up the market.
"First, today we are opening a massive £3 billion Home Builders Fund. This major package will help us build more than 225,000 new homes and will create thousands of jobs up and down the country.
"It will help us get more SMEs building, encourage custom-builders, and allow developers to build the infrastructure needed to support new housing.
"Second, we will pilot a new initiative: Accelerated Construction on public land.
"We will take Government-owned land and partner with contractors and investors to speed up housebuilding. We will create new supply chains using offsite construction. And we will encourage new models of building to make houses that people want, more cheaply and at pace.
"These measures will allow us to get started on 15,000 homes by 2020. We will get more homes built, more quickly.
"Third, we will bring forward a package of measures to encourage urban regeneration and to build on brownfield land. We want to radically increase brownfield development and bring life back to abandoned sites.
"That means delivering high quality housing for families, bringing new energy to our high streets and town centres.....abandoned shopping centres being transformed into new communities.....and increasing density of housing around stations to build homes that people want to live in.
"These three initiatives are just the beginning. We will publish a Housing White Paper later this year, with further significant measures.....all helping us towards our ambition for a million new homes by 2020."
Click here for the full text of Sajid Javid's speech.
