The chancellor’s £39bn boost buys time for social housing – now innovative private finance models must help deliver at scale

By Carl Brown2025-06-12T12:02:00

The Labour government is prioritising funding for grant-heavy, and much-needed, social rented homes while also promising to ramp up delivery to 1.5 million homes a year. Innovation to draw in private finance can help square the circle, says Carl Brown

The housing sector gave a massive sigh of relief yesterday. After years of subdued capital funding allocations, we now finally have a “proper“ affordable homes programme.

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