The economic impact of building social housing

The above costs and benefits are based on the construction of the initial 90,000 social homes in the current context. [...] Part of the analysis considers the impacts over a 30-year timeline of the construction of 90,000 homes at the start of the assessed period. [...] To estimate the level of economic activity supported, we rely on data from the supply-use tables published by the ONS to calculate the main ratios for the relationships between the key economic metrics (i.e. [...] (3) Assessing evidence that the introduction of ‘cross-subsidy’ of social housing from the private sector has reduced the capacity for social housebuilding to stabilise the industry. [...] The Hyde Group’s research evaluating the social benefit of their social housing provision.16 15 The Cost of Youth Homelessness | Centrepoint (2023) 16 The Value of a Social Tenancy | The Hyde Group (2018) © Centre for Economics and Business Research .