Shared Ownership (SO) has come a long way since its introduction in the 1980 Housing Act as an affordable home ownership product. It allows buyers to purchase a share of a property and then pay a subsidised rent on the remaining share. SO has grown significantly to a quarter of a million homes and has become a well-established affordable housing tenure providing households that would otherwise not be able to access the home ownership market with a route to home ownership with much lower deposit requirements.

SO is likely to continue to provide an affordable route to home ownership in the future, and our paper highlights how there are likely to be market-led opportunities for SO to grow further.

^{– STEVE PARTRIDGE, HOUSING CONSULTANCY –}