New social housing system 'must widen the net for all'

Housing’s new ‘gateway’ system, which will sort out access to all the 6,200 units of social housing owned by the States and housing trusts, has not yet been set up, but the Health, Social Security and Housing Scrutiny panel say that it must make it easier to get into social housing.

The panel started their review expecting the consultation paper on the new system to be released in May or June, but it has still not been published. They have put out an interim report anyway, setting out several recommendations.

See Wednesday’s JEP for full report