Shelter responds to 'Build, Build, Build'

Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: “Despite all the bluster about building new homes, the Prime Minister has today cut his government’s housebuilding budget by a third each year. It's quite incredible that the he thinks he can build more homes with less money.  

“With the housebuilding sector teetering on the brink, we need rapid investment but instead the government has slowed the Affordable Homes Programme for three years. This isn't a new deal, this is a bad deal. Hundreds of thousands of new homes and jobs are at risk.  
 

“No planning reform of any size or shape is a substitute for a funding cut, let alone reforms that will only result in a small amount of bad quality housing. We’ve already seen what happens when you take the blockers off bad housing – families end up in dangerous, overcrowded, rabbit-hutch homes. Far from bouncing forward this is stumbling backwards.” 

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