The focus of this report is ‘innovation by local authorities in building council housing’. Our recommendations are, therefore, centred on creating the local conditions necessary to take forward this agenda.
Many of the reports on affordable housing provision and the HRA self-financing system include a proliferation of recommendations for the Government (for example the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and the Chartered Institute of Housing (2016), Morphet and Clifford (2017) and the Town and Country Planning Association (2017)). We would not dispute the need for changes on the HRA such as an aggregate increase in the debt cap, or reforms to the right to buy to enable one-to-one replacement through less onerous rules. However, our recommendations are centred principally on councils and also other stakeholders, including their representative bodies. These draw on the evidence from this study.
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