Generation Rent gives evidence on housing market to committee

• Parliament TV: The Economics of the UK Housing Market
• Inquiry: The Economics of the UK Housing Market
• Select Committee on Economic Affairs

Witnesses

Tuesday 8 December in Committee Room 1, Palace of Westminster

At 3.35pm:

• Betsy Dillner, Director, Generation Rent
• Toby Lloyd, Head of Policy, Shelter
• Duncan Stott, Director, Priced Out

At 4.30pm:

• Dr Peter Williams, Departmental Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Housing
• Professor Steve Wilcox, Centre for Housing Policy, University of York

Possible questions

The first session covers a range of issues including:

• how young people and others feel about the decline in home ownership and increase in private rents
• the impact of the Government's Affordable Homes programme on the people the witnesses' organisations represent
• how the Government can make being a private tenant a more attractive option

The session also touches on the apparent transition from the Government subsidising rents via social housing to subsidizing home ownership using schemes such as Help to Buy and what the impact of this might be.

The second session focuses on:

• whether the Government is likely to meet its house building targets
• whether planning laws and taxation levers should be further reformed to encourage housing building and discourage homes being left empty 
• the possible impact of Right to Buy being extended to Housing Associations.

Further information

• About Parliament: Select committees
• Visiting Parliament: Watch committees

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