Social housing boost as Angela Rayner unveils £350million fund to fight crisis

Half of the other 2,800 homes volition beryllium for societal rent successful an effort to "turn the tide against the unacceptable lodging crisis", the authorities said.

Deputy PM Angela Rayner contiguous unveils a £350million boost to assistance present thousands much affordable homes.

Half of the other 2,800 homes volition beryllium for societal rent successful an effort to "turn the tide against the unacceptable housing crisis", the authorities said. Around £50million of the backing volition besides spell towards 250 much assembly homes.

It comes arsenic ministers grapple with record numbers of families and children surviving successful impermanent accommodation portion 1.3million radical are connected societal lodging waiting lists.

Many young radical person besides been locked retired of owning their ain location owed to sky-high rents and the accelerated summation successful lodging prices.

The Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government said the £350million comes connected apical of the £500million already announced astatine past year's Budget.

It said details volition besides beryllium acceptable retired "imminently" to crackdown connected exploitative behaviour by rogue lodging landlords providing squalid homes for the astir vulnerable.

Ms Rayner said the deficiency of bully quality, affordable lodging has "condemned excessively galore families renting privately to the misery of cramped, unacceptable surviving conditions".

Writing successful The Mirror the Deputy PM and Housing Secretary admitted ending the lodging situation successful England "will not beryllium easy" She added: "We haven’t built capable homes for decades to conscionable request and it volition instrumentality clip to crook this around.

"But wherever the past Government failed to enactment and caved successful to vested interests, we’re putting societal and affordable lodging astatine the bosom of our Plan for Change to get Britain building, enactment wealth successful people’s pockets and dispersed opportunity."

Polly Neate, Chief Executive of foundation Shelter said: “It’s bully to spot societal lodging firmly backmost connected the docket aft decades of neglect.

"Half of these caller homes for societal rent is simply a promising start, but the authorities indispensable perpetrate acold much ambitious concern astatine the Spending Review successful June."

But she warned: “Only genuinely bold enactment volition tackle the lodging exigency and extremity homelessness for good. Investing successful gathering 90,000 societal rent homes a twelvemonth for 10 years would wide societal lodging waiting lists, boost jobs and assistance turn the economy.”

At the predetermination past twelvemonth Labour promised to present 1.5million caller homes by the extremity of the Parliament successful 2029.