Affordable Housing Partnership Planning aims to define a model that would mainstream the provision of affordable housing within private sector construction company business models. It is argued that the model, would tend deflate land prices directly. It would also offer to the private sector greater certainty in its business planning processes by replacing the vagaries of housing market boom-bust, which, hitherto, has so bedeviled the efforts of the construction industry to improve its health and safety, productivity, and innovation record, with a known and constant state annual production target. Developer profit would in future derive from construction, not landhoarding or speculation – activities that can also lead to large losses and even bankruptcy. A refocus of their business planning focus on construction rather than speculation should help significantly to improve design, build quality, and sustainability outcomes, as both public and private sector focus on certain and clear shared ends.
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