Making a place for low cost housing A Housing Forum report on funding and delivery for low cost homes in mixed communities beyond 2015 SUPPORTED BY: Making a place for The Housing Forum 2 low cost housing The Housing Forum is the only cross Working Group Chair, Mike De’Ath, sector, industry- wide organisation that Partner, HTA Design LLP represents the entire housing supply January 2014 chain as the voice of the industry. We have over 100 member Acknowledgements organisations, from both public and The Housing Forum would like to private sectors, collaborating to inform, thank all those that contributed to network and influence with the shared this report (listed at the back) and objective of more homes and better also our sponsors: HTA Design homes for the nation. LLP, Hunters, Silver, Airey Miller The cross sector representation of Construction Management, PRP, Kier, our membership equips us especially Baily Garner, calfordseaden LLP and to investigate issues that require Legal & General Property. collaboration to achieve successful outcomes. The views in this report are the views of The Housing Forum and have been contributed from Working Group discussions and conference debates. If you are interested in joining please contact: Chief Executive
[email protected] 0207 648 4070 www.housingforum.org.uk Contents 05 12 26 3 Foreword Part one. Part three. Making the case for Current and emerging 06 low cost housing models for the Executive provision of low summary 20 cost housing Part two. 10 The challenges of 38 Introduction and funding and delivery Part four. scope of the of low cost housing Policy game report changers, ‘15 for 2015’ 44 Part five.