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The real problem raised by the Homes and Communities Agency affordable homes figures

The real problem raised by the Homes and Communities Agency affordable homes figures

On the face of it the Homes and Communities Agency statistics for affordable housing starts are absolutely awful. I’m going to go out on a limb and accept that they look significantly worse as a snapshot of what is going on than the reality on the ground. The data suggest that the starts are back-end loaded within the financial year, so a drop in this half of the year would have been expected. Obviously this drop was greatly exaggerated by…

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Speeding up public land sales by itself will not boost house building

Speeding up public land sales by itself will not boost house building

The Government today announced its plan to release public land with the aim of building 100,000 new homes. In reality the news, if that is what it is, has been dribbling out for some while. Few were opposing the policy of releasing swathes of redundant public land for housing and other development. The previous administration was keen to release land too. But politicians like a good headline. And a sound bite like “I am today announcing plans that will lead…

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Why the spending review might prove a turning onto the road to Nirvana for house builders

Why the spending review might prove a turning onto the road to Nirvana for house builders

What do the cuts in the spending review mean for house builders? Who really knows? But having tried to piece together what the implications of the Chancellor’s axe wielding are for housing, house builders, housing associations and contractors who build homes, I can’t help thinking what some might regard as the unthinkable. I may be deluded or befuddled by the blur of jumbled numbers, but far from being bad news, I think there is a possibility that things might pan…

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