The Housing Department-commissioned report, which has not yet gone to ministers, says that the goal of getting more Islanders to own their own homes is unrealistic, and that the department is ‘not fit for purpose’.
It recommends that department should be broken up, and a new ‘arms length’ landlord be formed to run the existing stock of States housing.
The report by the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Research was delivered to the Housing Department at the end of June, but has not yet been published, despite promises that it would be released in July.
But a copy leaked to the JEP has shown that its key findings are critical about the way that the Housing Department is structured and funded.
• Full report in Monday’s Jersey Evening Post
