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Social rents and PWLB changes: councils ‘need help’ to close housing viability gap

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The government has taken some positive steps to help councils increase housebuilding – but more can be done to help close the viability gap that still exists.

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That was the conclusion of the housing panel at Room151’s latest LATIF Online webinar. Tom Wilkinson, section 151 officer at Manchester City Council, said

The government has been warned by revenues experts that its planned mansion tax is “suboptimal” and “unnecessarily complicated” and may raise less than hoped because of behavioural changes among taxpayers, including high levels of avoidance.

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