Home Builders Federation and Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners

Year of publication: 2015

A research report to highlight the economic impact of house building.

There is a call from the HBF to increase housing building by 100,000 and the report shows the additional economic impact that would have:

• £1.1bn more net capital expenditure
• £13.6bn increase in economic output
• 430,000 extra jobs
• £1.2bn more tax paid
• £432m extra investment in local infrastructure
• £.3.2bn resident spending on goods and services

The study looks at the economic, social and environmental benefits that day-to-day housebuilding generates, and wider benefits that are harder to quantify, such as:

• Re-use of brownfield sites;
• Sector skills and employability; and
• Quality of place.

Content type: Economy

Tags: Report

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