UK failure to build social homes ‘shocking’, says author of 2004 report

UK failure to build social homes ‘shocking’, says author of 2004 report

Kate Barker, speaking on anniversary of landmark review, says overcrowding and temporary accommodation even worse today

The failure of governments to build enough social homes in the past 20 years is “shocking” and “uneconomical”, says the author of a landmark Blair-era report into housing supply.

Kate Barker has expressed her disappointment at the levels of overcrowding and widespread use of temporary housing resulting from a lack of new homes to accommodate some of Britain’s poorest citizens.

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