Select Committee on Economic Affairs
Building more homes
1st Report of Session 2016-17 - published 15 July 2016 - HL Paper 20
Contents
Our main conclusions and recommendations
Introduction: Housing, a broken market?
Part 1: The problems
Chapter 1: The state we are in
Public policy changes and volatility in the market
Chapter 2: The Government’s response
Housing supply: building one million homes
Tenure: doubling the number of first time buyers
Part 2: The solutions
Criticism of the planning system
Reform to section 106 and the Community Infrastructure Levy
Other solutions and initiatives
Chapter 4: Building more homes on public land
Releasing public land for development
Type of homes that could be built on public land
Coordinating the release of central Government owned land
Chapter 5: Building by local authorities and housing
associations
Capacity to increase housebuilding
Benefits of local authority and housing association building
Increasing building by housing associations
Increasing local authority housebuilding
Chapter 6: Making better use of the existing housing stock
Lack of suitable accommodation for downsizing
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Annex 1: Mortgage affordability for first time buyers
Annex 2: Trends in population growth
Annex 3: Government Initiatives to Help Home Ownership
Annex 5: Local Authority Financing Initiatives
Appendix 1: List of Members and Declaration of Interests
Evidence is published online at http://www.parliament.uk/economics-uk-housing-market and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.