end homelessness and meet wider housing needs.24 This estimate of the scale of need has been widely endorsed across the housing and homelessness sectors and by the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee.25 Investment in social rented housing would play a critical role in reducing homelessness and housing waiting lists and reduce reliance on expensive and unsuitable temporary accomm. [...] DLUHC’s own modelling of the economic benefits of the Affordable Homes Programme found that social renting has the best cost benefit rating of the range of affordable tenures delivered through the Programme, with investment in social rented housing representing a highly effective use of public resources.31 Analysis for the Affordable Housing Commission found that there would be significant cost be. [...] Government could also take steps to preserve the stock England already has by moving to halt the conversion of social to affordable housing and further reform the Right to Buy to manage the overall loss of social housing through this policy as recommended by the Local Government Association and others.36 The Welsh Government has already abolished Right to Buy in Wales in 2019.37 These measures wou. [...] A recent joint inquiry by the All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) for Housing Market and Housing Delivery and for Ending Homelessness found that there is potential to use some of the relatively high number of vacant commercial buildings to create good quality, settled, genuinely affordable homes for people experiencing homelessness and other low-income households.48 To unlock the potential of e. [...] The structure of the fund should draw on the learning from local authorities and other providers that have acquired empty homes and converted commercial buildings as part of the Rough Sleepers Accommodation Programme, the Single Homelessness Accommodation Programme and the Local Authority Housing Fund.
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