Call comes after private provider fails to come forward
MPs have called on the government to review the proposed guarantee scheme designed to promote the construction of new homes to let, and scrap it if is not delivering results.
The recommendation, which forms part of a report into the private rented sector by the communities department select committee, follows the revelation last month that no private firm has come forward to run the 拢10bn UKGuarantees scheme for private rented housing.
The MPs report said that while the scheme 鈥渕ay be well intentioned鈥� the government needs to measure results,鈥� and called for it to make public the number of applications it has received for the scheme, and estimate how many homes it expected it to deliver.
The government last September announced the Guarantees scheme, to be worth up to 拢10bn, which it said would support the delivery of up to 15,000 homes.
The report said: 鈥淚t remains to be seen how much impact the guarantee scheme for the private rented sector will have in delivering additional new homes鈥�. If there is any doubt that the scheme is going to deliver the homes required, we recommend that the government rapidly explore other options for the use of the resources identified.鈥�
In addition, the report called on the government to ensure that a 拢1bn fund set up to expand the delivery of homes for rent, didn鈥檛 simply act to speed up the construction of homes that would have been built anyway.
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