Church of England calls for cross-party housing strategy

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2021-02-22T07:01:00

Darbishire Place housing in London by Niall McLaughlin Architects

Source: Nick Kane

Report suggests using church land for affordable housing, while calling on government to improve quality and sustainability of existing homes

The government must create a 20-year, cross-party strategy to transform housing and solve multiple issues of injustice from affordability to dangerous cladding, the Church of England argues in a new report.

The strategy should include a specific target for the number of homes which are truly affordable, 10 and 20 years out, and who should bear the financial burden for achieving this.

Government must also seek to improve the quality and environmental sustainability of existing housing stock, it said. The report includes recommendations about public subsidy and how the planning system might be used to progressively reduce land prices. It also tackles the cladding scandal, benefit cuts, no-fault evictions and the use of public land.

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