Promoting Shared Ownership
Shared ownership plays a number of important roles:
- it boosts asset ownership and helps people achieve their home ownership aspirations
- it meets serious housing needs, allowing couples to move out of parental homes, single people to move out of friends' homes, overcrowded households to get the space they need, and so on
- it reduces reliance on the severely rationed social rented housing stock
- it frees up social homes as social tenants are prioritised for purchases
- it helps create more mixed and socially and economically balanced communities
- it helps government to develop thousands of extra affordable homes each year
Over the coming years, we believe England's growing population and consistently low supply of new housing will mean much larger numbers of people who cannot get social rented housing, yet cannot afford to buy in the open market. Shared ownership can meet the needs of many of these people, if government and lenders invest in it.
The documents you'll find on the linked pages below show just what a powerful product shared ownership is for the housing market, now and for the future.
Promoting Shared Ownership: an initiative by 22 leading housing association providers (in 2010) to promote the role and value of shared ownership as a vital part of the housing market to government, politicians, policymakers and other social policy influencers.
If you are a first time buyer seeking more information about shared ownership and other HomeBuy options, please visit www.HomeBuy.co.uk.
For more information about Promoting Shared Ownership please contact:
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Yvette Ruggins - 020 7378 5562 or 07785 517460
Marilyn DiCara - 0845 359 6372 or 07808 733678
(This webpage last updated on 23 March 2012)
28th November 2010
Profit from the price fall - Shared ownership could be the answer (from the Sunday Mirror - Homes and Holidays)
18th November 2010
10 reasons why Shared Ownership is still crucial to affordable housing and a healthy housing market
17th November 2010
Government urged to keep affordable home ownership schemes - our news on PSLG Building's website.
Affordable homes hold the key to low-cost homeownership - thanks to WhatHouse.co.uk
Home ownership schemes should be retained in reforms, warns alliance - thanks to 24Dash.com
15th November 2010
PSO news release: Government must keep affordable home ownership schemes, say housing associations
10 reasons why Shared Ownership is still crucial to affordable housing and a healthy housing market
2nd October 2010
House prices on the agenda - News in brief from the Sheffield Star
7th September 2010
Nearly half of shared owners earn less than £25,000
SHARED OWNERSHIP: Facts & Figures
2nd July 2010
Why shared ownership housing is about to get more important - a short briefing for journalists
28th June 2010
A response from Simon Graham, housing policy consultant, Blue Sky to "Share and share alike" - Inside Housing's analysis on 25 June 2010
25th June 2010
Share and share alike - Keith Cooper's analysis from Inside Housing
18th June 2010
Fears for first-time buyers (from the Manchester Evening News)
9th June 2010
Don't cut supply of affordable new homes - housing associations in plea to government (from the Bolton News)
3rd June 2010
Leave our homes alone - plea (from the Oldham Evening Chronicle)
25th May 2010
Associations call on new coalition to maintain shared ownership funding
How shared ownership can keep new housing numbers up, even in a tightly constrained public spending enviornment - a briefing
18th May 2010
Our letter to Grant Shapps, Minister of State for Housing and Planning - Delivering new affordable housing in a tight public spending environment
Our briefing showing that new shared ownership housing (part buy part rent) is a vital part of the solution to the housing crisis in England
17th May 2010
Our letter to the Rt Hon David Laws MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury re value for money for housing grant
23rd April 2010
New research shows shared ownership will be vital to England’s future housing market
The role of shared ownership in the future housing market - a discussion paper
The role of shared ownership in the future housing market - discussion paper summary
13th April 2010
Shared ownership - myths and realities
26th March 2010
A briefing for MPs and PPCs - Helping your constituents get high quality, affordable housing
15th March 2010
More shared owners 'staircasing' up than government figures suggest
MPs urged to back shared ownership
12th March 2010
Reproduced from the Manchester Evening News: We're still a nation of would-be home-owners
15th February 2010
Risk of shared ownership repossessions no worse than for housing market as a whole
5th February 2010
Nineteen housing association chief executives call on MPs to support shared ownership