Welfare Reform on the Web (July 2009): Social housing - UK

The relationship between social housing provision and the UK economy

A. Sampson and D. Orr

Caritas, Mar. 2009, p. 10-11

The authors argue that investment of about £1bn of public money in social housing would boost the UK economy, save thousands of jobs, deliver desperately needed new homes, and reduce the chances of unsustainable house price inflation.