The Week in Housing: Gove sees the light
Good afternoon.
Michael Gove?wants to build more social rented housing . In fact, he thinks it is “unconscionable, indefensible” that people in work are relying on low-quality temporary housing and wants 30,000 social rented homes a year to start turning the tide.?
These were the comments the housing secretary made in an interview with ITV News this week.
Now, those with a long memory (or even a medium-term memory, frankly) may note a touch of chutzpah in Mr Gove’s comments.?
Well-informed readers of the Week in Housing that you are, you doubtless need no reminding of these numbers. But just for the record, when the Conservatives came to power as lead partners in the coalition government in 2010, there were 39,562 social rented homes being built every year and 49,680 households in temporary accommodation.?
Last year, we built 7,644 social rented homes and now have 101,300 households in temporary accommodation.?
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The reduction in social rented homes is solely and completely to do with the government’s decision to stop funding them in 2010. While Mr Gove’s colleagues will doubtless brand this among the “difficult choices” they had to make at the start of their reign, it has also undoubtedly been a political one, too.?
In the interview, Mr Gove took credit for a renegotiation of Affordable Housing Programme funding which will see it deliver 30,000 social rented homes over the five years to 2026.?
But this remains a historically low figure – owed as much to Theresa May as it is to Mr Gove. It is around half the number of homeownership products the programme will produce and comes at about one-twelfth of what most experts think the requirement is in England to meet demand.
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1 年Apart from the fact that Gove (and most of his 'clan') only ever make 'political' decisions (what other kind are there in politics?), why DO the Tories seem to want to run the country into the ground? What IS their motive for making the majority of people poorer and unable to prosper when the country relies on each of them contributing to the public purse to keep things moving forward? Otherwise, how can they cover the cost of the state support more and more people need, just to survive? Would they rather see more people lining up at FoodBanks? How can they square the circle of providing public services when they cannot invest in the infrastructure of society? Have they simply lost all moral sensibilities or are they just greedy for their own personal security? Gove has no scruples when it comes to spouting what he thinks people want to hear but then does NOTHING to convince his fellow Tories to see the benefits of building more social housing for more people who could then be more productive.... Sorry, just drifted off into a world where Barbie became a nuclear scientist. Back to reality now.
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1 年How many of these will be for single people? But then, how many single young people can afford even social housing?