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BreakthroughBritain
HousingPoverty 
From Social Breakdown to Social Mobility
Housing and Dependency Working Group
Chaired by Kate Davies
November 2008
 
About the Centre forSocial Justice
TheCentreforSocialJusticeaimstoputsocialjusticeattheheartofBritishpolitics.Our policy development is rooted in the wisdom of those working to tackleBritain’s deepest social problems and the experience of those whose lives havebeen affected by poverty. Our working groups are non-partisan, comprisingprominentacademics,practitionersandpolicymakerswhohaveexpertiseintherelevant fields. We consult nationally and internationally, especially withcharitiesandsocialenterprises,whoarethethechampionsofthewelfaresociety.In addition to policy development, the CSJ has built an alliance of poverty fightingorganisationsthatreversesocialbreakdownandtransformcommunities.We believe that the surest way the Government can reverse socialbreakdown and poverty is to enable such individuals, communities and voluntary groups to help themselves.The CSJ was founded by Iain Duncan Smith in 2004, as the fulfilment of apromise made to Janice Dobbie, whose son had recently died from a drugoverdose just after he was released from prison.Chairman: Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MPExecutive Director: Philippa Stroud
Breakthrough Britain: Housing Poverty © The Centre for Social Justice, 2008Published by the Centre for Social Justice, 9 Westminster Palace Gardens, Artillery Row, SW1P 1RL
www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk 
ISBN: 978-0-9556999-5-5Designed by SoapBox, www.soapboxcommunications.co.uk Please note that all children and adults photographed have acted as models. The quotations,references and commentary on the photographs in this document bear no relation to the actualindividuals pictured.
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Contents
Preface by Iain Duncan Smith 5Chairman’s Foreword 7Members of the Housing and Dependency working group 10Executive Summary 13Chapter 1: An Affordability Crisis 251.1 What’s up? 251.2 The historical picture 261.3 Housing aspirations and choice of housing tenure 291.4 Housing supply 311.5 Population and household growth 321.6 Affordability of home ownership 331.7 Shared ownership 371.8 The role of private rental 381.9 Towards a more dynamic housing supply 40Chapter 2: Ending the Sorting Effect 532.1 Homes for the neediest 532.2 What is the purpose of social housing? 542.3 Who lives in social housing today? 552.4 Who gets moved into social housing today? 602.5 How mobile are current socialhousing households? 612.6 How does living in social housingaffect life chances? 612.7 Some experiences of failing estates2.8 Housing subsidies and rent levels 622.9 Creative thinking: proposals for reform 66Chapter 3: Towards New Communities 813.1 Successful local development 813.2 Delivering socially mixed communities:flexible housing for all 813
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