Treasury needs ‘change of mindset’ to support council housebuilding

1 July 2025 by Jason Holland

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A “significant change of mindset” is needed at HM Treasury in valuing housing stock as infrastructure and “not as a liability”.

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Local authorities should be allowed to count their housing stock value at a genuine market value as an asset, rather than continually counting it

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