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Twenty years after her landmark Review of Housing Supply in the UK, Dame Kate Barker has written a public memorandum to the incoming Housing Minister, Matthew Pennycook MP, setting out the initial recommendations of the Radix Big Tent Housing Commission of which she is chair.
Established with the aim of proposing fresh, practical solutions to the housing challenges in England, the Commission comprises experts from across the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Her memo says that: “Despite strong support for her original report, a recent review by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) found that only eleven of its 36 recommendations are currently in place.
“Sadly, most indicators of housing market health are worse today than they were twenty years ago. In particular, there has been a failure to link new housing with infrastructure delivery and also, since the financial crisis, a further decline in the supply of new social rent homes.”
The memo goes on to make 18 initial recommendations, covering planning, funding, and implementation.
Dame Barker recommends a two stage approach to housing reform, initially focusing on policies to end the ‘permacrisis’ by establishing a stable policy framework, so as to allow bolder choices in the latter part of the government’s first term and lay a sound foundation for the following five years.
Amongst the Commission’s early recommendations are to:
Implementation
Funding
Planning
The Commission’s final report is to be published in Autumn 2024.
Commission members:
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