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Terrie Alafat says Spending Review must ‘make a real difference’
The Spending Review must “make a real difference” to ensure that more homes can be built across the country, the chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has said.
Speaking at Housing 2019, the CIH conference and exhibition, Terrie Alafat repeated the CIH’s call for the government to provide £146bn for affordable housing over the next 10 years.
It comes as London mayor Sadiq Khan joined the G15 group of large London housing associations to demand £4.9bn a year in affordable housing grant.
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Ms Alafat told the conference: “What we are calling for is a 10-year programme to build around one-and-a-half million social homes to rent, as well as shared ownership properties to buy across the country.
“This would cost £12.8bn pounds per year and would take spending levels back to those under Winston Churchill in the early 1950s.”
In her speech, Ms Alafat also discussed research that the CIH had commissioned from pollsters Ipsos Mori, which showed that 75% of people are worried about their housing costs, while only 50% are worried about Brexit.
More than 60%, she said, did not expect ever to be able to buy their own home and 20% doubted that they would even be able to afford a home to rent.
Ms Alafat also returned to a favourite theme of the CIH, the Right to Buy.
She told the conference: “Building new homes will be a critical part of any solution, but we also must stop losing those we have. More than 165,000 homes for social rent were lost in the last six years. That figure will reach 199,000 by 2020 if we do not act now.
“I make no apologies for – once again – repeating our call for the Westminster government to suspend the Right to Buy in England. It is not good value and it is just not fair.”
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