Shelter responds to the King's Speech

Sarah Elliott, Chief Executive of Shelter, said: “The government is absolutely right to protect our stock of social homes in the Social Housing Renewal Bill. But with England on the brink of a cost-of-living catastrophe, it’s high time it delivers the council housing revolution it promised two years ago.

“Stemming the loss of social homes through Right-to-Buy and better protecting survivors of domestic abuse in social housing is a step in the right direction. But the government needs to go further to give hope to the generation of children trapped in temporary accommodation and families losing sleep over affording sky-high private rents.

“There’s only one solution to the housing emergency: a new generation of social homes. To get councils building the government must free them from the mountains of unfair housing debt that is holding them back. This is the step change necessary to ramp up to the 90,000 social rent homes we need a year for ten years.”

ENDS.