Social housing providers warn their ability to build new affordable and social rental homes, thanks to the rising costs of the Na-Grenfell Tower Competition Crisis.
About 72 people are dead The 2017 tragedyBut eight years later, it is thought that as many as 12,000 buildings were wrapped in the types of flammable materials that led to it.
The work has not even started with half of the buildings in question, with an estimated 7,000 blocks not identified by the government. It is thought that the bill to remove the products across the country will run up to ten billions of rands.
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But housing associations – not -profit organizations that offer social rented housing – are excluded from most government financing.
Instead, the money comes from the rental of social tenants for a large part of their remediation and is derived from other projects.
The National Audit Office believes it will have to spend £ 3.8 billion in total to remove non-ACM, combustible upbeats on buildings of more than 11 m high.
New research suggests that it is the cost equivalent of building 91,000 much-needed new affordable homes.
This is because we see a great decline in the number of new social rental and affordable homes built by these presenters.
Across England, the National Housing Federation (NHF) says that affordable housing start dropped by 39% to 43,439 – the lowest number since 2016. In London, affordable housing started with 90% in the year to March, compared to the year earlier.
The Housing Association Peabody says they have already spent £ 300m on uptake remediation, and the bill will continue to rise.
On one of their vast development sites in East London, tower blocks off the ground. But only phase one of the ten -year project (905 new homes) is safe. The plans for the other 2500 apartments were endangered – precisely because funds were derived from the building’s safety.
“If we don’t do this if we don’t find a way to finance the future phases, I’m afraid we’ll have to stop at the end of phase one,” said their CEO, Ian McDermott.
The numbers are sharp: “Normally we build about 2000 houses a year. We will build less than 100 houses this year.
“This is at a time when one in 21 children is in London Live in temporary accommodationSo the need for social housing has never been greater. ‘
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The data seems to be cold water on the promise of the government to build 1.5 million new homes at the end of this parliament.
“The numbers go in the wrong direction,” says Rhys Moore, executive director of the NHF. “I think it is now generally accepted that there is no way to meet the 1.5 million homes target without a significant increase in social and affordable home building.”
Rhys Moore, executive director of the NHF
Earlier this month, a committee of MPs warned that the government did not take the risks seriously enough and was asked that a formal onslaught should be published by the end of the year in the way the recovery costs affected home building targets.
Mr. Moore calls on the government to expand the building security scheme to include housing associations: “What is indefensible in our opinion is that some of the poorest families in the country, social tenants, must take up the cost with their rent to make the buildings safe.”
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Giles Grover, from the end of our attachment scandal, agrees with the call: “Our campaign position has always been that providers of social housing should have full and equal access to funding.”
But unlike the housing associations and NHF, he is concerned about too much of their focus on development.
During the upholstery crisis, some housing associations faced criticism of the handling of safety issues, especially with regard to shared owners.
Mr. Grover said: “We need to make sure that providers of social housing focus on their core goal, making the homes properly, make the houses safe and treat people like vulnerable, shared owners with much more respect.”
If there is a safety issue, he said: “Let shared owners sublet, let them sell – or buy their apartments back. Because now associations are going on and want to be tinpot developers”.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: ‘We are determined to make Britain’s homes safer and make change to residents who have suffered too long, and it is right for developers to pay their fair share.
“This government will provide 1.5 million homes as part of our plan for change, and just this week we have committed £ 2 billion to deliver thousands of new social and affordable homes. We are working on working closely with the industry so we can deliver our housing ambitions.”
