Harrowing Housing Decisions in Haringey

Haringey is currently squabbling about social housing because they want to build it themselves via an inhouse team.  The trouble with this that Councils tend not to be very good at building housing.  It is not what they do so they don't know how to do it.  Developing an inhouse company would cause delay, quite possibly over runs, expose the Council to maximum risk and quite possibly not lead to housing that was any better than what was there already.  Since any big contractor is almost certainly going to benefit from economies of scale and established expertise, that company will almost certainly be able to do things faster and cheaper.  It will also allow the Council to up the proportion of social housing via a clawback planning condition, which wouldn't really work if the Council did it all itself.