If you have any questions, or would like to know more about the work of the commission, please get in touch with Rachel Casey on or 0344 515 2046 Call for evidence About your organisation/ about you Where are you based?/ live? (if applicable) Name of your service / organisation: (if applicable) Who is the main client group of your service / organisation? Review How would you define 'social housing'? Over recent years, there have been many key decisions made for social housing. From your perspective, which of these have been good or bad? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the current model of social housing? Does social housing need rebranding? In name, in concept, or both? What vision and role should social housing have in the future? Allocations What is the role of social housing? Who is it for? Who is currently receiving social housing? Is this the best use of stock? What are the challenges to the way in which social housing is allocated? What could be done to improve access to social housing? Affordability What groups of people are most in need of new affordable housing (to rent or buy)? From your service/organisation perspective, what groups of people experience barriers when accessing or sustaining social housing? What needs to be done to ensure social housing is affordable to people to rent or buy? of supply need How many genuinely affordable homes are needed? What range of agents and actors, such as private developers, should be contributing to the delivery of affordable homes? What measures be taken to boost investment to increase level of supply need? High land prices make it expensive to social housing. How can land costs be reduced and how can we increase the availability of land for social housing? Conditions and design Are conditions in social housing adequate? What progress has been made in improving conditions in recent years?
If you have any questions, or would like to know more about the work of the commission, please get in touch with Rachel Casey on or 0344 515 2046 Call for evidence About your organisation/ about you Where are you based?/ live? (if applicable) Name of your service / organisation: (if applicable) Who is the main client group of your service / organisation? Review How would you define 'social housing'? Over recent years, there have been many key decisions made for social housing. From your perspective, which of these have been good or bad? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the current model of social housing? Does social housing need rebranding? In name, in concept, or both? What vision and role should social housing have in the future? Allocations What is the role of social housing? Who is it for? Who is currently receiving social housing? Is this the best use of stock? What are the challenges to the way in which social housing is allocated? What could be done to improve access to social housing? Affordability What groups of people are most in need of new affordable housing (to rent or buy)? From your service/organisation perspective, what groups of people experience barriers when accessing or sustaining social housing? What needs to be done to ensure social housing is affordable to people to rent or buy? of supply need How many genuinely affordable homes are needed? What range of agents and actors, such as private developers, should be contributing to the delivery of affordable homes? What measures be taken to boost investment to increase level of supply need? High land prices make it expensive to social housing. How can land costs be reduced and how can we increase the availability of land for social housing? Conditions and design Are conditions in social housing adequate? What progress has been made in improving conditions in recent years?
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