Social homes are key to solving the housing crisis: NFB

Posted: Tuesday, July 29th, 2025

Richard Beresford, chief executive of the National Federation of Builders (NFB), said: “This is superb news because unaffordable housing is the greatest barrier to growth and a social housing revolution reduces the welfare bill, helps destigmatise tenure types and creates a pipeline of work for SME housebuilders and contractors.”

Alongside the announcement, ‘Delivering a Decade of Renewal for Social and Affordable Housing’ was released. This document sets out how the Government will achieve its ambition and drive up home safety and quality.

Further announcements include:

Updating and modernising Decent Homes Standard and extending it to privately rented homes.
Minimum energy efficiency standards are set in the social housing sector.
Right to Buy reforms
Further measures to protect social housing stock.

Rico Wojtulewicz, head of policy and market insight at the NFB and House Builders Association (HBA), said: “It has become politically expedient to blame builders for using land, while chastising them for not building the homes the public sector should be creating.

“Yet when the public sector tries to build, it quickly realises how land use opposition, a broken planning system, and politically motivated regulatory change make projects unviable.”

Social homes are key to solving the housing crisis: NFB

Posted: Tuesday, July 29th, 2025

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