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Shelter calls for massive social homes boost
The Government could miss its 2020 target to eradicate child poverty without massive social housing investment, according to homelessness charity Shelter.
The Shelter research calls for the Government to build an extra 20,000 homes for social rent each year on top of the 40,000 being built annually by the Housing Corporation.
It also calls for the government to set a new target to eradicate overcrowding in rented family housing by 2020.
Hazel Parsons, a campaign manager for Shelter, said: "There are thousands of children who are roofless, and hundreds of thousands living in tiny, Victorian conditions.
"One of the most important ways to tackle child poverty would be through housing."
Shelter says more than a million children in the UK are either homeless or living in substandard housing.
Such children are more likely to perform badly at school and have behavioural problems, it says.
Shelter called for the Government to make resources available via next year's comprehensive spending review.
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This article was first published on PlanningResource
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