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Angela Rayner's resignation last week saw the appointment of the Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP as Housing Secretary. The question on everyone's mind is whether this will herald a change in government policy for housing delivery?
Steve Reed takes over the brief against a backdrop of some of the worst housing delivery numbers in recent years. The latest ONS statistics, released just last week, make for grim reading. They record the lowest number of new homes being started in England (2024/25) for 12 years, making it the worst set of results in 50 years outside of the global Credit Crunch and its aftermath.
The challenge for the new Housing Secretary is what can he do to turn round the housing delivery numbers more immediately so that housebuilding is turbocharged for growth?
So what can be done to boost housebuilding? There are five areas that could make a real and immediate difference: tackling environmental red tape, supporting owner occupier buyers, firing up affordable housing, sorting out the building safety backlog along with targeted funding and investment for local areas.
Find out more in our new HFI paper - "Boosting housing delivery - opportunities for the new Housing Secretary" download the paper here
